Virgin Media - great service but they really do test my patience at times. (renewal costs)
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I would leave them but they installed my internet upstairs in my spare room / office so I could wire my PC rather than having wifi in there. Not sure if I could get BT/fibre companies to also do the same for me as I don't have a phone line socket up there.
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The SH4 web UI is still quite slow, and it takes literally 10 minutes to restore internet after a reboot, which is a pain when occasionally it will just lose internet completely for no reason, however it's a vast improvement over the SH3 I had before!
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Damn, I’m getting 900mb from talk talk for £36 for 2 years - around 6 months into it.
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Looks like it’s now £49 p/m. Still a decent saving.
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I spent over 6 hours with 3 different people and finally talking to the top bloke in Customer Relations.
They did bugger all for me but within 3 months I'll be on Lila.
They did bugger all for me but within 3 months I'll be on Lila.
I'm looking forward to my contract ending. I've been pulling off the empty threat of leaving for discounts for 10 years because I had no one better to go to. The Openreach FTTP network has just gone up in my area, so I actually will leave this time!
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Pure FTTP is much better I would say but that's up to you. Goes down to cost as well I guess.
I don't have that option yet, all I have is the OpenReach network. I'm moving because the upload speed is double that of Virgin.
I renewed with them about 6 months ago and it was an ok experience but I think a lot is dependent on the agent you speak to. I was pretty open minded about the package I had just wanted to avoid the price increasing to £125/month from c£90. Ended up with a better package for slightly more money - I basically got Sports and Movies added to the TV, Netflix for 18 months and a unlimited SIM card which I gave to my student daughter. Basically the Netflix and Sim allowed me to cancel existing contracts and save about £20/month
So I'm on 1GB broadband - which is over specced for our use
The top TV packaged + Sky Sports and Movies (2 set top boxes)
Landline
Netflix
Unlimited SIM
Total cost £98/month
So I'm on 1GB broadband - which is over specced for our use
The top TV packaged + Sky Sports and Movies (2 set top boxes)
Landline
Netflix
Unlimited SIM
Total cost £98/month
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Question is, do you need that upload speed?
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I recall spending 1 hour on the phone to them to negotiate my renewal, on paper it looked a good deal but once the numbers were calculated for the full term it ended with me paying more than new customers.
VR pr0n.
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Latest gen console games can be 150GB-200GB just to update the game. Imaging doing that on dial up.
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Sky installation guy did it for me recently when I switched from virgin. Asked him if he could wire it into the bedroom/office directly above the room were he was going to be doing it anyway. He said yeah whatever, is actually less cable to run down the house as its coming over from the telegraph pole.
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That’s actually a decent price for everything and you’re going to use it. I can’t help but feel that TV packages will soon change where you get TV + Netflix, Disney and Prime. A lot of the channels are just utter garbage that literally no one watches. I’d be curious to the know the exact viewing figures of the channels we pay a fortune for.
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Yes, I'll make use of it. It's also going to be cheaper, which is nice.
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Virgin gone down for me, can't even access their website. Apparently all through the night last night it was down and they supposed to have fixed it, but no dice here. Currently using mobile data.
www.theguardian.com
Virgin Media restores internet service after outages across UK – as it happened
Company’s own website went down and internet was inaccessible for several hours. Follow all our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets
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They fixed last night's problem mid morning today and then broke it again about 4pmVirgin gone down for me, can't even access their website. Apparently all through the night last night it was down and they supposed to have fixed it, but no dice here. Currently using mobile data.
Virgin Media restores internet service after outages across UK – as it happened
Company’s own website went down and internet was inaccessible for several hours. Follow all our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets
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Yep
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