Virgin Media - How (bad) are they?

[deejayburnout]

I read somewhere that VM are stopping the throttling of there service above 30mb.

I wouldn't change providers unless you are going to another fibre service. I went from 60mb fibre to a 20mb ADSL service and I totally regret it.

[Dareos]

yep, its been dropped, none on downstream at all, still some throttling on upstream

Looking forward to 152Mbps too

[Zaim]

yep, its been dropped, none on downstream at all, still some throttling on upstream

Looking forward to 152Mbps too

+1, Its certainly a step in the right direction, upstream throttling isn't too much of an issue for me though, Virgin have always been a step behind when it comes to upload.

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-ma...hresholds.html

4.3mbit when fully capped, doesn't sound great.

[Stin]

I've been with virgin for a few months. Apart from a few hours outage 1 day, its been a pretty stable service.
Their Superhub is a real piece of crap though.

Its NAT is diabolical. We hosted a LAN party and we tried to play an online game, and because of the crappy NAT of the netgear, it thought we were all the same player.
put it into bridge mode, and use a Technicolor router and it all worked beautifully.

Also I have an IP camera at home, and the port forward would randomly just stop working. Again, use the netgear as a bridge and put a Technicolor on, and no more problems.

Technically the Netgear ticks all the boxes, 2.4 and 5Ghz all in one box, but all it can actually do is just give you access to browse the internet.

[SNYPER E]

Experience pretty awesome so far, decent priced packages, I pay for 60MB and usually get about 70MB so no complaints.