Virgin media

[80s Shorts]

Can you translate that into English for me please, I'm thinking of moving from Sky to Virgin media in a couple of months when my contract ends:)

DO not move unless you are having serious problems with your sky service. He was saying that VM are cutting people speeds when they abuse their connection. They do do that but that is a tiny fraction of the problems that customers are having and the speeds are being throttled irrespective of that in many areas.

Join the VM forum and check out your area on there.

Virgin Media is not even connected to Branson and Virgin anymore. It is owned by some yank billionaire and his company Liberty Global.

 

[80s Shorts]

But... If a household can stream a movie without buffering, play online gaming and download something to watch later in the background, all on 50meg, what makes Virgin better than BT?

Is all that speed (and cost) really necessary? Does paying for faster speed guarantee less downtime.

Just interested.

No, it is not necassary at all. It is a marketing tool to advertise these headline speeds that people do not need and that they do not supply anyway. VM upload speeds are garbage which is why they do not advertise them.

 

[TCIB]

We are not talking about fup ( fair usage policy ) , if there is serious contention there is serious contention issues. This is due to overselling a network that cannot handle the throughput.

The peak time data limits are being placed upon people because there is insufficient capacity to supply the network.

It is a lottery. You may say VM is hands down the best but that is in your experience and in your area. VM in my area at the moment is absolute garbage.

Furthermore, in any area, if you are a gamer then VM latency and stability is far from the best countrywide.

Not really bud tbh, i have sight of 32 virgin users over 7 ftp networks. The speeds are solid over the entire geo area from what i see tbh.
You may be the exception here tbh. As i say i have 2 lines in two diff areas and have the advantage of seeing how the network runs with reasonable clarity. I have lines in wigan and leeds and speeds are both consistent at the very top end.

I can only put it like this if i were offered a line free of charge by any uk major provider i would choose virgin hands down, not even something i would need to think about.

It is also worth noting the tvod stuff has it's own dedicated 10Mbps line where as BT etc uses your advertised line speed.

For ftp usage virgin is absolute magic and those with good rigs and fast torrent sites also. If you use kodi i would choose virgin as a small amount of buffering easily compensate for any latency in streams nowadays.
Not gamed for a few years now but never had any issues myself, COD was always fast on ping and low latency.

Virgin upload speeds are rock solid for myself, 1.4MB/s solid uplink and i run an ftp slave from it 24/7.
All uk domestic upload speeds are crap but virgin will stay stable though longer than any other that i have seen.

Some do use the speeds, right now i have wigan line doing 220Mbps and leeds the same.
I accept i am the exception to an extent here but a fair few really do use the full line speed reasonably consistently.

If you are a good distance from the exchange and they have oversold the node then that sucks but i cant say i have seen it myself unless they have really slacked off recently.

If rock solid broadband speed is your aim and high speed at that you must get virgin imo, any other provider is at best half as good.

Note: In wigan the green box is directly in front of my flat.

 

[TCIB]

Can you translate that into English for me please, I'm thinking of moving from Sky to Virgin media in a couple of months when my contract ends:)

If you use your line heavily in any way at all (torrent,ftp) and need better speeds and more "solid" speeds get virgin.
Very few companies i would stick my neck out and recommend but for SLA (service level agreement) you really can't touch virgin.
It is defo worth asking for a discount as it is not cheap but it is the best.

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

Think the virgin media servers are struggling to keep up in and around the Wythenshawe area? I live in Cheadle and get ridiculous downtime speeds around peak hours! It can go from running 152Mbps at 3pm to 30-40 Mbps 3 hours later and thats on a wired connection as well.

Still think Virgin is the best though and their customer service is top notch!

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

If you use your line heavily in any way at all (torrent,ftp) and need better speeds and more "solid" speeds get virgin.
Very few companies i would stick my neck out and recommend but for SLA (service level agreement) you really can't touch virgin.
It is defo worth asking for a discount as it is not cheap but it is the best.

It's not the best. FTTP from companies like Hyperoptic, Zen (and I think BT are testing) all offer speeds upto 1Gb. You'd be lucky to live in a place which has it though.

You didn't answer my earlier question though, why do most people need more than 50meg. If you absolutely need 200, then yes, VM is likely the best option, but for the rest I fail to see how VM are better than BT, etc.. The same, maybe, but better I'm not convinced.

 

[quiet_riot]

Shit service has started 2 hours of downtime last night - router constantly saying it's 'updating' and then 'registration error'

 

[ChesterRdBlue]

Unbelievably my area can't get Virgin, so I'm stuck with sky, tried to go to BT but they couldn't even manage to switch the fucking thing on leaving me in an internet deprived time warp. Are there any smaller providers or am I stuck with what comes through the BT wires, which will be no better whoever I'm with.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Unbelievably my area can't get Virgin, so I'm stuck with sky, tried to go to BT but they couldn't even manage to switch the fucking thing on leaving me in an internet deprived time warp. Are there any smaller providers or am I stuck with what comes through the BT wires, which will be no better whoever I'm with.

Try the Samknows website. TalkTalk, Sky, Plusnet all use BT cabling so performance might not be better.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Shit service has started 2 hours of downtime last night - router constantly saying it's 'updating' and then 'registration error'

Are you on your own router? Or the combined VM modem/router? Might be worth unplugging and waiting a minute then replugging in. I had to do the same earlier this week. I'm hoping it's because they're working on the utilisation issue.