Virgin Media Discussion Thread

R0Z4G said:
I am looking to move into a house which is in a virgin area but there has never been anything in the past so will an engineer have to come up and dig stuff up up the driveway and lay lines? how does it work ?
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They just run a cable up the wall of your drive. They might put it in a tube or bury it in the lawn if you ask them, but they won't dig up a drive.
 
They dug up a path at our place (went down the street a little and then through some grass / pathway), instead of going straight through the drive. They wont just do an "as the crow flies" route, they'll think about what works best and do as little word as possible :P
 
LFletcher said:
I read (not sure where) that the Homeworks+ connection had the traffic management removed from it. That and the extra speed make it tempting for me.
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Yes the upload doesn't have any traffic management but there's nothing to say that they won't add it. It wouldn't be the first time they've brought a product with no traffic management out and then added it soon after.
 
Lemin said:
Wife phoned them, said were leaving as £95 a month was out of order, new customers pay less. Next bill is £59 :) and nothing gone from package. !!! :cool:
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What's you package?

We pay about £68

100bb
Xl phone
Xl tv
Tivo 1tb

Tempted to reduce TV but I do like to watch BT sport sometimes for football, not sure it's worth it just for that though.
 
beachBOYken said:
What's you package?

We pay about £68

100bb
Xl phone
Xl tv
Tivo 1tb

Tempted to reduce TV but I do like to watch BT sport sometimes for football, not sure it's worth it just for that though.
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You can get deals where you basically get BT Sport for free depending on your leverage. With the last price increase i phoned up and managed to get 50mb, phone, M TV, Tivo and BTSport for £36 pm. I know your package is quite a bit better, just pointing out that you don't necessarily need the large TV package to get BT Sport included for a decent price.
 
flowrider99 said:
No, most people need a faster download for online gaming, web browsing only if you are uploading large files do you need more bandwidth. If i were you (I am a long standing VM customer) I would keep Sky TV and get VM broadband if you are in a cabled area. VM's Tivo service is pretty poor.
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Online gaming doesn't really use much bandwidth but is very sensitive to latency and when some one starts using a partial amount of the bandwidth in the home the latency increases which causes "lag" and online gaming tends to use more upload than download but is only a small amount of bandwidth.
 
r7slayer said:
Online gaming doesn't really use much bandwidth but is very sensitive to latency and when some one starts using a partial amount of the bandwidth in the home the latency increases which causes "lag" and online gaming tends to use more upload than download but is only a small amount of bandwidth.
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Spot on m8 ;) here have a cookie :D
 
Just checked and there is cable going through to next door and seen a cable running up the garden and they have a CATV small place on the path outside the house but there isnt one on my house? Would they just split the connection from next doors or would they have to run a seperate cable to the house ?
 
Anybody paying less than retail for Vivid 200? Been with Virgin for what feels like forever on their top package and never got a deal with them, I'm not the sort of person to go seeking one but if I can save some cash I think I should.
 
danielanthony said:
I've just ordered it and the kit will be delivered on Tuesday. Plug it in myself and call VM to activate... 300Mbs :)

Also get the new SH3, so hopefully the wifi performance will be better than my SH2.
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Boom!
 
Sp00n said:
Anybody paying less than retail for Vivid 200? Been with Virgin for what feels like forever on their top package and never got a deal with them, I'm not the sort of person to go seeking one but if I can save some cash I think I should.
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If you're out of contract just call retentions and ask them what the cheapest they can get your bill down to is. No need to go through the nonsense of pretending you want to leave. At the very least they'll apply a loyalty discount to your account in return for taking up a new contract.

If you're unluck y and get someone who refuses to do anything just hang up and call again so that you get someone different and odds are they'll sort it for you.
 
Had the 300mpbs service installed yesterday. Ran a few speed tests and got a constant 315/20. I've seen download speeds of around 35MB/sec off of a few FTP sites but other than that most sites were not maxing out my old 200mbps so the difference is nothing. Hopefully the extra upload will be good for Plex. I heard on the grapevine that the upload could be increasing to 30mbps.
 
I don't get why Ookla speed test is giving me rubbish speeds. I know that my maximum with VM is 108Mb. In fact, Ookla has given me that before. But recently and right now, it only shows 26MB, even when I manually select the closest server. Other speed tests are currently giving me just under or over 100. Thinkbroadband just gave me 134MB so clearly something wrong with their speed test. So what is up with the Ookla test?
 
What's the upload speed of 200Mb versus 50Mb. i've got my new router coming wednesday, I play ESO on the USA server ping is about 180Ms, just wondering if I will see any improvement. cheers in advance
 
magpie1966 said:
What's the upload speed of 200Mb versus 50Mb. i've got my new router coming wednesday, I play ESO on the USA server ping is about 180Ms, just wondering if I will see any improvement. cheers in advance
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10Mbit upload on the 200Mbit package. Bit crap really - imo should be at least double that. I get 9ms local ping if that help too :)
 
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