Virgin Bl**dy Broadband - Capped!

[big_si]

Originally Posted by hogen-deifar

MMMMM? And how did you figure out how to do that then Si???

Coz Eye IZ a kLevr buoy





(And Hog's gave it to me - Thanks Julie! )

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

I've been with Virgin for 3 years and never had a problem. Am I a minority of one?

been a customer for over 10 years, back when Virgin was NTL was Cable and Wireless.

no complaints since Virgin took over, NTL were the pits though.

[wilbo]

I'm with Virgin on their 10mb cable service (recent free upgrade from 4mb)

if I download more than 750mb between 6pm and 11pm then the service is throttled from 2.5mb/s to 750kb/s

after 11pm it resets itself.

this is fine as I download after 11pm leaving the PC on when most others have gone to bed..

[Adrian Kelland]

Can't say I'm surprised people are having problems with all the movie downloads being touted without additional infrastructure put into place. All those Youtube links

There's also the ADSL contention rate, you could be sharing the line with upto 50 other people.

Adrian

[Scubee]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

I've been with Virgin for 3 years and never had a problem. Am I a minority of one?

No.. my dad is with them too, and he thinks they are the dogs danglies

[big_si]

I think they're fine too............


until something goes wrong and then they're the worst large company I've ever dealt with

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by Adrian Kelland

Can't say I'm surprised people are having problems with all the movie downloads being touted without additional infrastructure put into place. All those Youtube links

There's also the ADSL contention rate, you could be sharing the line with upto 50 other people.

Adrian

down a fibre optic?

shouldn't be a problem. most of the kit in the green boxes has been replaced with new stuff ( cos the engineers forget to close em properly and the kids pull wires out)

[big_si]

Originally Posted by dry suit diver

down a fibre optic?

shouldn't be a problem. most of the kit in the green boxes has been replaced with new stuff ( cos the engineers forget to close em properly and the kids pull wires out)

thinkbroadband :: ASA rules on Virgin 'fibre optic' broadband claims

It is fibre optic for their cable service... But ADSL (of any flavour) is still delivered over twisted pair so I guess (haven't a clue really! ) would still suffer from contention problems?(?????)

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by dry suit diver

down a fibre optic?

shouldn't be a problem. most of the kit in the green boxes has been replaced with new stuff ( cos the engineers forget to close em properly and the kids pull wires out)

Fibre optic all the way to your home?

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by big_si

thinkbroadband :: ASA rules on Virgin 'fibre optic' broadband claims

It is fibre optic for their cable service... But ADSL (of any flavour) is still delivered over twisted pair so I guess (haven't a clue really! ) would still suffer from contention problems?(?????)

I know that all the connections from the green box to the house are in a coax cable similar to statellite downleads.

I am also aware that the main network is in fibre optic.

hopefully thereb shouldnt be contention issues with the fibre optic network