[Gllug] VirginMedia or Urban Wi-Max experiences

[C. Cooke]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:00:12AM +0000, James Hawtin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:27:42AM +0000, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
> > 2009/3/4 Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk>:
> > I'm happy with internet only through Virgin cable.  I use a VoIP box
> > for my home phones and was even on their free 50mbps trial for almost
> > two years.
> 
> I also have virgin internet and while it is true they do traffic shape to
> hell, the bandwidth it is brought down to I find adequate. During the night
> it appears to be turned off.
> 
> The reason I stick with them is I down quite alot of stuff at times,
> in excess of 40GiB a month, a level many ISPs would cry foul about, I have
> never had a single word of complaint about my usage level from Virgin.
> 

I've been using Virgin (née NTL) since I moved to London in 2003. It's
been almost entirely painless, to the point where I'm not really
bothered that there's no BT line and the Landlord won't allow us to get
one installed. 

Dealing with their phone support can be trying, certainly, but I've had
to call them so rarely it doesn't matter. I've also had the full
bandwidth I'm supposed to (10MB currently, finally going to 20MB next week).
Traffic shaping has yet to affect me, even though I do occasionally
download quite a lot.

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