[BNM] [OT] BT Phone line reconnection

[James McCarthy]

On 11 Mar 2008, at 10:22, Michael Rose wrote:

>
>>> It seems to me virgin spend a lot more on advertising than they do  
>>> on
>>> network capacity. Beware of virgin broadband. Incredibly slow.
>
>> I disagree.
>>
>> I've been with Virgin (and before that NTL, C&W etc etc) for years  
>> and their broadband (at
>> least!) has always been pretty good! I've got a 4MB connection  
>> (shortly being upgraded to
>> 10MB) and consistently get 3.5+ MB connection. It almost never goes  
>> down too.
>>
>> I would say they're the best ISP I've ever had! Probably because  
>> they don't rely on BT!
>
>
> +1 Virgin

You've gotta distinguish between the broadband they offer as part of  
cable services and the stuff they offer over the bt local loop and  
within that there is the old NTL package which was only half shite and  
the original virgin offering which was almost entirely shite.

But the cable modem provisioned stuff is quality as it was built to  
support cable tv not 2400bps fax machines and crackling human voices.

>
>
>
> Forced to go that way because BT are F* C*s, but it's never dropped  
> out, it's fast, they don't mind about torrents (if scheduled  
> properly) and go all the way up to 20MB.
>
> YMMV but I've only got good things to say about them.
>
>
> M.
>
>
> BT are F* C*s; still paying £12.50 a month till the end of my 18  
> month contract in my last place (was either that or a £250  
> disconnection fee)
>
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