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Anyone on Virgin Cable Broadband?

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Anyone on Virgin Cable Broadband?

No complaints here aswell, good steady 4mb line although the "upgrade" 10mb is due within a few weeks, should be interesting :)

Levemir: According to the schedule Manchester has neither been completed nor any scheduled date. Although naughty the sales people claimed it was 10mb, the service was technically correct in being 4mb at this time.

However reading the above, yes tech support is a shambles and the "what offer, we can't find any record" line has been spun with a number of people, you see it quite a bit on cableforum.

The only slight positive is that £1/min India chatline is going free in June!
 
j1ppers said:
virgin broadband runs some of its fibre optics over BT copper.

enough said(y)
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Where j1ppers? :confused: U see, the broadband fibres also carry the Digital TV signals.
 
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j1ppers said:
in many places all over the UK
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I would like to know where THAT info came from!

BT and Virgin do share Telephony wire, switches etc, but the Broadband fibre Network isnt cut into copper at all, except from the local Distribution points (feed to home) where the Drop-wire connects up each house. Nowhere does Broadband digital signals go into BT copper wire Network AFAIK.
 
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Ffoxy said:
I would like to know where THAT info came from!

BT and Virgin do share Telephony wire, switches etc, but the Broadband fibre Network isnt cut into copper at all, except from the local Distribution points (feed to home) where the Drop-wire connects up each house. Nowhere does Broadband digital signals go into BT copper wire Network AFAIK.
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my dad works for BT i dnt know exactly where it is over the UK in fact i'm quite un educated on it but all i know is that Virgin run some of the fibre optics over BT copper.
 
j1ppers said:
my dad works for BT i dnt know exactly where it is over the UK in fact i'm quite un educated on it but all i know is that Virgin run some of the fibre optics over BT copper.
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Maybe Offnet Customers j1ppers... people who dont live on Virgin franchises but take services via "other providers" :)

But there are some old "legacy" areas (pre merger and pre Virgin) that run analogue TV signals via copper pairs.
 
After last month's "three strikes and you're off the Internet" announcement in the UK was made official, it seems the large ISP Virgin Media will be the first to implement the plan.

Although record labels have been pushing for a plan like this for years, it is not even known yet whether the actual measures are legal. The government is expected to have a meeting on that very subject sometime next month. Despite this fact, BPI and Virgin say they will enact a pilot program using the infamous "three strikes and you're off the Internet".

A spokesman for Virgin Media said: "We have been in discussions with rights holders organisations about how a voluntary scheme could work. We are taking this problem seriously and would favour a sensible voluntary solution...the BPI has teams of technicians to trace illegal music downloading to individual accounts. It will hand these account numbers over to Virgin Media, which will match them to names and addresses."

BPI plans to send warning letters for first time offenders, a temporary suspension of Internet services for the "second strike" and finally a full disconnection for the final strike.
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my house has no phone line, it isnt in a cable area, and mobile phone reception is really bad, so bad i need to go outside to use my phone.

today i'm expecting delivery of a three USB 3g modem. they assure me their turbo network will get reception in my house and i should expect speeds of 2.3meg. i'm sceptical, but i have no alternative so i'm giving it a go. fingers crossed.

its £15 per month with a 3gb limit, bloody rip off, but its only a 12 month contract and in a year the 3g modems will be up to 10meg so fingers crossed its worth the wait.
 
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jug said:
my house has no phone line, it isnt in a cable area, and mobile phone reception is really bad, so bad i need to go outside to use my phone.

today i'm expecting delivery of a three USB 3g modem. they assure me their turbo network will get reception in my house and i should expect speeds of 2.3meg. i'm sceptical, but i have no alternative so i'm giving it a go. fingers crossed.

its £15 per month with a 3gb limit, bloody rip off, but its only a 12 month contract and in a year the 3g modems will be up to 10meg so fingers crossed its worth the wait.
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I have there 20mb service, looking forward to when this is upped to 50mb :)

calling their customer service is a joke in the evenings, "offshore call centre". There tech support couldnt even get my name right!!!
But if you call in the day you always get a uk call centre, so not bad. Been with them since the Cable London days.
Downtime is minimum, maybe once every 3 months, the tend to fix the issue straight away.
 
psychofox said:
I have there 20mb service, looking forward to when this is upped to 50mb :)

calling their customer service is a joke in the evenings, "offshore call centre". There tech support couldnt even get my name right!!!
But if you call in the day you always get a uk call centre, so not bad. Been with them since the Cable London days.
Downtime is minimum, maybe once every 3 months, the tend to fix the issue straight away.
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do you actually get 20mb though?

what do you do online that can keep up with this? it matters at the other end you know(y)
 
I am on the 20Mb service, and speedtests show me getting around 18Mbit or so.

I can't wait for 50Mb service to be rolled out either - current FTP speeds I get are around the 2.2MB/s mark [so very close to full line speed]; my monthly traffic is well over 300GB as well :slayer: although I never get caught up in FUP, just by avoiding peak times.
 
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VM are always amongst the top ISP's if not THE top provider.
 
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