right at the moment i'm with tiscali broadband and phone and nothing but problems with them slow speeds mainly (1 test today resulted 83kbps ) also intermittent disconnections,so i'm looking at changing in the next 2 months.

 

whats your views or experiences.

Virgin media is nothing special, its all ex ntl. Were with talk talk, phone and broadband ( which is aol ) and no probs at all, and certainly quicker than your broadband.

next door neighbours are with talk talk and they recommend it,so i might try them.

 

my internet speed is Shite as iv'e said but before i have seen 3-4 meg,but when i call tiscali to complain about my slow speeds they tell me my line only supports 2meg which to me is bullshite coz i have seen over that with them and when i was with plusnet previously i was constantly seeing between 5-6 meg.

Once its up and running its not a bad service at all ,but customer relations and service are very poor

O2... if your a customer (PAYG/Contract) 16Mb/s for £10 a/m, No usage limit (Fair policy just states that your not meant to rape the connection 24/7)

 

I'm currently getting 10-11Mb/s as BT aren't upgrading the lines around here until the end of the year but still worth £10 a/m

 

Upload and download combined I transferred over 250Gb last month with no moaning

Interent is awesome, im on the broadband XL package and was downloading 1.6mb/s from Steam. Latency are sub 10 for a transatlantic connection. Simply the best public internet connection on the market. Only problem is virgins new policy on downloading of illegal films and music. But im a prolific downloader of the said items (i have a collection of over 4000 films) and i haven't heard anything, yet.

 

O2... if your a customer (PAYG/Contract) 16Mb/s for £10 a/m, No usage limit (Fair policy just states that your not meant to rape the connection 24/7)

 

I'm currently getting 10-11Mb/s as BT aren't upgrading the lines around here until the end of the year but still worth £10 a/m

 

Upload and download combined I transferred over 250Gb last month with no moaning

 

Im sure you mean 10mb. 10mb/s (10,000kbs) is about a 100mb connection, which no serivice provider is offering the public.

right i resently moved home after being with virgin media sincd they started it took them 3 weeks just to send me a new broadband.

 

personally i would recomend going with sky as my babys mum has been with them for 3 years and never had a problem

I've been quite impressed with Virgin Media's actual products, been with them for YEARS! (When they were Telewest obviously)

 

The internet is and as far as I'm aware, always has been, one of the best internet packages widely available in the UK. Havn't really had problems with them personally, although as said, the customer relations is not that great. My mum's only had to call 'em once about the digibox for the TV. Took 'em a few days, and a couple of lengthy calls to sort out, but they gave them a brand new box, so not complaining....

right i resently moved home after being with virgin media sincd they started it took them 3 weeks just to send me a new broadband.

 

personally i would recomend going with sky as my babys mum has been with them for 3 years and never had a problem

 

 

been with them for about a year see/surf/speak upgraded to max and free 01 and 02 calls anytime ..speed is quite good alll of the time ..think i've only had problems once since i've had it and tech support is really good

Interent is awesome, im on the broadband XL package and was downloading 1.6mb/s from Steam. Latency are sub 10 for a transatlantic connection. Simply the best public internet connection on the market. Only problem is virgins new policy on downloading of illegal films and music. But im a prolific downloader of the said items (i have a collection of over 4000 films) and i haven't heard anything, yet.

 

O2... if your a customer (PAYG/Contract) 16Mb/s for £10 a/m, No usage limit (Fair policy just states that your not meant to rape the connection 24/7)

 

I'm currently getting 10-11Mb/s as BT aren't upgrading the lines around here until the end of the year but still worth £10 a/m

 

Upload and download combined I transferred over 250Gb last month with no moaning

 

Im sure you mean 10mb. 10mb/s (10,000kbs) is about a 100mb connection, which no serivice provider is offering the public.

Well technically 10-11Mbit/s (1MByte/s approx) or 10-11Mbps/1MBps (Can't be arsed working out the true calculations where 1MB = 8Mb or 8bits to 1Byte)

 

So no I did actually mean 10-11Mb/s as Mb is Megabit and MB is MegaByte

 

I have had it peak at 1.3MBps

 

O2 do offer a 24Mb/s service but it seems that is only available if you either live next door to your exchange, in a city or an area where BT has upgraded the lines.

 

I forgot to note that there 8Mb, 16Mb and 24Mb services are only available in ADSL2+ areas (about 80-90% of the UK) and do offer an ADSL service, upto 8Mb which is more expensive than the 24Mb ADSL2+ service...

i seriously might give them a go then,they cant be any worse than what i have now,and for £19.99 for 8mb unlimited download and free anytime calls it seems a good deal.

I've actually had nothing but problems with them. We're on an UNLIMITED package.....that throttles us down between 4pm and 12pm, often to crawling speeds that are slower than dial up. Their customer service is awful too. THis isn't a one off for me, as I started the university year with virgin media, was again so upset and annoyed with the service I changed to BE Broadband. They are excellent, good value for money, and the speeds are super quick all the time, excellent customer service too.

 

Linky-poo

All good till you get a problem ive found.

i'm with With BE "Up to 24 meg ultra-fast broadband" not had a problem with them, and quick interent and i'm a net junkie and no complaints! in an ADSL2+ area :-)

 

their customer service is pretty good to, cant fault them

i'm with With BE "Up to 24 meg ultra-fast broadband" not had a problem with them, and quick interent and i'm a net junkie and no complaints! in an ADSL2+ area :-)

 

their customer service is pretty good to, cant fault them

BE are now a child company of O2... O2 use the BE network for it's internet