News - Virgin Media promises to banish unachievable ADSL speed claims

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Virgin reckons "giving customers honest information about the technical capabilities of their broadband" is the way forward.

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"giving customers honest information about the technical capabilities of their broadband is the way forward" says the no 1 isp for speed throttling.

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Originally Posted by shaithis

"giving customers honest information about the technical capabilities of their broadband is the way forward" says the no 1 isp for speed throttling.

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You beat me to it, its ironic that Virgin Media are making this promise despite the fact they throttle the traffic...compounding the problem altogether. You effectively get 3 speeds from them. The Speed they advertise, the speed you get, and then the speed you get when Virgin have theirs fingers on your connection and throttle it down!

+1 for spin.

but they are not going to say anything about their unrealistic marketing speed claims about cable products.

maybe they should be advertising the speed you'll pay for and the speed they throttle you too instead :)

well I'm getting the 50mb cable broadband on Friday so will let you know. I finally had to get rid of BT Business as its recently turned into pap - keeps loosing connectivity. :stupid:

10Mb Cable and getting it......

they cudnt care less about customers - virgin / ntlworld / whateva they used to be called

been with em for 10+ years and they didnt bat an eyelid when I left.

Sky broadband - 0.5miles from exchange = 20MBd/l 1Mbu/l no capps - unlimited as they say all for a tenner a month - guess who was the better deal? :O_o1:

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Originally Posted by zoomee

they cudnt care less about customers - virgin / ntlworld / whateva they used to be called

been with em for 10+ years and they didnt bat an eyelid when I left.

Sky broadband - 0.5miles from exchange = 20MBd/l 1Mbu/l no capps - unlimited as they say all for a tenner a month - guess who was the better deal? :O_o1:

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Not strictly a tenner when you add on the phone line rental is it though?

Luckily receive a good service here from Virgin, pay for 10mb and get that as well - much better than any BT based provider i had before (and no phone line to pay for) :)

Well here is my particularly fast broadband XL (20mb) from virgin.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/536943247.png

I left because of their constant lies.

VM are the last company who should be talking about telling the truth.

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Originally Posted by oolon

Well here is my particularly fast broadband XL (20mb) from virgin.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/536943247.png

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lol thats bad then, what part of London you in? SE London here and getting following from my 10mb service here....

http://www.speedtest.net/result/536962712.png

:)

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Originally Posted by Barrichello

lol thats bad then, what part of London you in? SE London here and getting following from my 10mb service here....

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North London, Harringey