VirginMedia 20 Mbps £20 a month... Hmmm

[stroberaver]

...to get a point across.

But what was your point? That you can't drive a full lap of the M25 at 70mph in rush hour?

[Rave]

I just this week decided that I was paying too much- had been paying £25 for 4Mb broadband and £26-ish for- as it turned out- more TV and phone than I wanted (or could use, since On Demand doesn't work with the crappy infrastructure round here). Phoned them up, and they had no problem at all giving me the new customer price, so now I'm paying exactly the same as before (£52-ish a month) but with a V+ box and a new mobile phone for my wife thrown in. The V+ box should be installed tomorrow, can't wait.

I dare say that if I had haggled I could have got it cheaper, but I really don't like haggling that much and I think for what I'm getting it's fair value. I despise Rupert Murdoch too much to ever get sky, so it's in my interest that VM stay in business.

[BUFF]

did you have to pay the £75 for V+ installation?
I'm quite tempted to upgrade to the V+.

[Sinizter]

But what was your point? That you can't drive a full lap of the M25 at 70mph in rush hour?

You must be a genius to work that out of this thread.

[schmunk]

But what was your point? That you can't drive a full lap of the M25 at 70mph in rush hour?

That is a very good analogy. Bravo!

[Barrichello]

I saw in a paper the other day an advert saying up to 20 Mbps half price for 3 months (£10)
when you also take out a phone line. Now seeing as its supposed to be £37 or whatever, thats one
hell of a kick in the teeth for current customers.

But then again some leverage to get you a reduction? if anyone tries it on in the next few weeks
a post on how you get on would be handy.

The devil is in the detail. Not everyone wants a phone line.

[Agent]

More so when people are using VoIP

[ra5512zo]

virgins top broadband will be 50mbit by the end of 2008,

[Rave]

did you have to pay the £75 for V+ installation?
I'm quite tempted to upgrade to the V+.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that- I did. Though again it might be negotiable. Apparently Sky+ installation is only £15 for new customers at the moment (CBA to check, sorry)- maybe a good bargaining point?

I'm looking forward to getting it tomorrow, will report back after a couple of days how I'm getting on. I'm very keen on the 'record two, watch another' idea, and that it's HD capable by default. I don't have an HD telly, and there's only BBC HD on it at the moment, but still. Time to start saving for a 50" display- with my current 7' viewing distance that should give me a fighting chance of appreciating the full resolution of 1080i/p. Not sure where my hifi will go though- on the floor I suppose.

[Blitzen]

virgins top broadband will be 50mbit by the end of 2008,

Haha....we shall see!

They cant even roll out 8mb consistently to the masses yet.

[Hicks12]

im paying |£8 for 4mb and soon to be upgraded to 10mb/s for £8(there free upgrade thing). Never had a problem with VM and tbh they are very good when you talk to them on the pjhone(if you get past the automated msg xD) then you can haggle loads xD like we have in the past.

[ra5512zo]

Haha....we shall see!

They cant even roll out 8mb consistently to the masses yet.

well the reason for that is because they dont have an 8mb service. So tring to roll a service they dont offer to the masses is going to be a little difficult!

[Blitzen]

well the reason for that is because they dont have an 8mb service. So tring to roll a service they dont offer to the masses is going to be a little difficult!

Regardless.

You know as well as i do that they cannot supply correct speeds to most anyway let alone 50mb.

Besides, do you REALLY think that if you pay for 50mb you will get that? The traffic shaping, as 50mb will hog the bandwidth will be massive.

Its a publicity stunt and nothing more.

[ra5512zo]

Regardless.

You know as well as i do that they cannot supply correct speeds to most anyway let alone 50mb.

Besides, do you REALLY think that if you pay for 50mb you will get that? The traffic shaping, as 50mb will hog the bandwidth will be massive.

Its a publicity stunt and nothing more.

a lot of ppl who are on 20mb dont even know that thier modem is not the correct one, that is not caperble of 20mb.

and for ther record most people do get close to the advertised speeds, and the network is not even close to capacity.

Have you ever measured the speed within the VM network alone?

[Steve B]

trialling a 50mbit pipe and distributing it to joe public are two completely different concepts. I reckon it's going to be a while before we'll see it in any of the major UBRs.

Its willy-waving IMO. Trying to get people to make the leap from the "Up to 8Mb" ADSL connections.

[Agent]

The traffic shaping

Forgot already?
VM do not traffic shape. They throttle, there is a big difference