Got the same experience with my Virgin ADSL.<br>Speeds at peak time are horrible, ping is up and down. IRC over SSH in a screen can feel like<br>a 28.8k modem connection sometimes. :-(<br>My connection syncs at close to 8Mbit and I that's the speed I get if I schedule a download<br>
at say 4am in the morning. Very few outages though, I think it's just very very congested.<br>Bottom line, not recommended!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Ashley Evans <<a href="mailto:ashley@k2.com">ashley@k2.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2">I use them. I'm not really happy with the quality of the network. Pings all over the place. Download speed very inconsistent. Never a problem with downtime in fairness though but I wouldn't choose them again - at least not on cable.<br>
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Best I've used in the past few years is Bethere (24meg adsl2 with consistent service, good speeds, cheap, static ip option)<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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Sent: Sat 01/03/2008 10:26 AM<br>
To: Greater London Linux User Group<br>
Subject: [Gllug] Anyone using Virgin Media?<br>
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Woohoo, just signed my life away for a flat in Crawley and so I am in<br>
need of a broadband provider.<br>
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I am looking at the bundles Virgin( <a href="http://www.virginmedia.com" target="_blank">www.virginmedia.com</a> ) has and it<br>
looks like I can actually reduce my bills by about a tenner a month<br>
overall for phone, mobile, broadband and I get bonus tv channels to<br>
boot.<br>
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The modem provided has an Ethernet connection so the questions are;<br>
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Anyone here using them for their broadband over their fibre-optic lines?<br>
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How does the service compare with other providers you have used?<br>
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Any insight appreciated. Tiscali will never see another £ of mine again<br>
and my current operator ukonline has some interruptions but not too<br>
many, I expect similar from most providers.<br>
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Justin<br>
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