Virgin or Infinity

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Assuming you have a choice of either which would you pick?

I have... pretty balanced reasons to sway me.

I'm a BT contractor so get infinity a bit cheaper but it's only going to be the 48Mb service in my area.

Virgin is a TINY bit more expensive for the same service but I got a decent cashback offer to offset it.

 

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Yeah, S8 (sheffield) speeds around 8Mb/sec at peak times.... YEEEEEEE..no

Infinity it is I thinks

 

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https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Up-to-152Mb/bd-p/Upto152Mb

Their top speed forum (as in the 152MB/sec section) is basically just stuffed full of folks complaining about peak time speeds and the moderators quoting "fault" tickets for when the planning team will be thinking about, looking at, considering, deciding if a particular link that's getting it's ass kicked is worth upgrading.

Meantime their customer service is just booking out countless engineers for pointless checks to "solve speed issues". Wasting their time and their customers...

Screw that.

I genuinely wanted to jump ship as the new place will only be getting 32-40Mb on infinity but it's still going to be better than completely random, unpredictable bandwidth/latency on Virgin. Fingers crossed they get it sorted.