[BNM] Virgin/ntl

[Chris Billett]

virgin.net/evenfaster if I recall right.

In Virgin's defence, I have never had issues with them. Reasonable speed.
I have torrents running all the time (of totally legal stuff and never,
ever American shows that I can't wait for of course) and am a pretty heavy
user, and I haven't had to even reset my cable modem more than twice in
the year I've had them. I'm not sure if it hits 4Mb/s all the time, but it
is certainly a good speed, and it doesn't just crap out randomly like
other providers I've used (including pre-Virgin NTL in another area).

Also? Can't put a price on getting someone in the same country on the line
within five rings whenever you call their support line. Well, you probably
could, but it'd be more than a couple of quid a month, I guess.

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:43:17 +0100, "Mat Walker" said:
>> Jason Bailey wrote:
>> > I just rang virgin to make sure it was all XL packages as my wife did
>> the broadband test and it came out to 5 Mb/s instead of 20 (or near
>> 20). I knew I'd have to ring the call centre for something i.e. why's
>> is not nearer to 20 Mb/s.
>
>> Yeah get used to it. I've never got anything close to the promised 20mb
>> connection, 5-10 is the best you can hope for in my experience.
>
> They're supposed to be upgrading our package at home from 4Mb to 10mb.
> I'd be happy if it would just hit 4mb reliably. The upgrade is happening
> in a regional roll out, so maybe general speeds will increase when that
> happens in our region. There's a page about it which I've got bookmarked
> at home but I can't find it at the moment.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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