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I'm being robbed!
What am I paying for that you aren't?? It's been this for a few months:
We never use their phone.
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What am I paying for that you aren't?? It's been this for a few months:
We never use their phone.
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i’m being robbed. you got a good deal.
mine is just for internet atm. i’m just out of contract .
Morning all.
Just an update, I called up yesterday and said £67 a month, go go F yourself. It's a pound less at £35.99 now on from my current price. I am stuck with a new 18 month contract so 'mustn't grumble' as gigabit fibre is digging up the roads close to me. Thankyou for all your contributions, and I promise to 'try' and drink less.
Dan.
Just an update, I called up yesterday and said £67 a month, go go F yourself. It's a pound less at £35.99 now on from my current price. I am stuck with a new 18 month contract so 'mustn't grumble' as gigabit fibre is digging up the roads close to me. Thankyou for all your contributions, and I promise to 'try' and drink less.
Dan.
I found this interesting comment on Virgin forums about the outdated 'contention ratios'. It would appear there can be issues with sluggish speeds in certain circumstances.
"Virgin media is a little different from ADSL/VDSL ISPs though, and there is still some element of this at a local level.
Your coax cable will run past a certain number of houses, and the bandwidth on that cable is split between those houses. There are two ways to increase the bandwidth in cable broadband, either split the "segment" so that there are less houses per segment, or increase the number of channels available on that segment.
If you have 24 channels on your segment, then that's ~1200mbits of bandwidth. If you only have a hub 2.0, you will only be able to lock 8 of these channels, and should probably ask for an upgrade to a hub 3.0.
If that segment is shared between 10 houses, and all of them are on 350mbit, then there is a good chance you will feel contention (as there is only 120mbit of actual bandwidth each if you all rinse it at once).
If you're on 350m, but your 9 neighbours are on 50m, then you won't ever feel contention.
If you have 100 people on your segment, you will be more likely to have issues even if everyone else is on low speed services."
"Virgin media is a little different from ADSL/VDSL ISPs though, and there is still some element of this at a local level.
Your coax cable will run past a certain number of houses, and the bandwidth on that cable is split between those houses. There are two ways to increase the bandwidth in cable broadband, either split the "segment" so that there are less houses per segment, or increase the number of channels available on that segment.
If you have 24 channels on your segment, then that's ~1200mbits of bandwidth. If you only have a hub 2.0, you will only be able to lock 8 of these channels, and should probably ask for an upgrade to a hub 3.0.
If that segment is shared between 10 houses, and all of them are on 350mbit, then there is a good chance you will feel contention (as there is only 120mbit of actual bandwidth each if you all rinse it at once).
If you're on 350m, but your 9 neighbours are on 50m, then you won't ever feel contention.
If you have 100 people on your segment, you will be more likely to have issues even if everyone else is on low speed services."
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My contract with Virgin expired recently so called them to say I was thinking of leaving. I currently have the full works including second box as I am an armchair sports nut. My son is an online gamer so also have the top notch broadband. I didn't need to argue the case as the very nice lady offered me an additional cheap SIM card and the same package.......at a 25% discounted price. A no brainer I must have caught them on a good day.
I must have caught them on a good day.
I did the same with 3 mobile. They admitted they have ' over subscribed' so the reason I get 2 meg rather than faster; is retention. 8 quid off, not good enough. I cancelled the the payment.
