[Wolves] Thoughts on Virgin Media?

[David Goodwin]

Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote :
> It may or may not be relevant today but I jumped in the opposite direction
> about a year ago. I'd been a happy Birmingham cable/Virgin Media customer
> for a number of years watching steadily the bandwidth limits increasing, so
> all was fine and dandy. Until that was I started to notice certain ports
> being limited or restricted. Always seemed to be random but I would
> sometimes get a port to remain open for a couple of hours exactly before
> access to it would stop. The final straw came when I couldn't even open
> stuff to do basic remote management. Virgin themselves always maintained it
> wasn’t something they were doing, but I've never been convinced. Anyway, the
> long and the short of it was I decided to go back to a dedicated IP address
> (the last I had had was Demon way back in the 90's) and signed up for
> Bethere (unlimited), which coupled with a speedtouch router hasn't really
> missed a beat. The fixed IP and ability to run my own albeit limited server
> requirements without contravening any T's and C's has definitely been worth
> the £18 a month.
> 

<snip>

I'm also a happy BeThere customer - 10 quid a month for 8mbit
downstream (ADSL2 etc) - annoyingly I don't get more than 4-5mbit, but
it's enough for me at the moment.

Be don't throttle bandwidth or impose a limit; they provide a wireless
modem/router thing, and have become more reliable over the last few
years too.

At work we use the 'pro' package which gives a static IP and no limit
(up to 24mbit). IT behaves itself very well.

Unfortunately I can't get cable in Bromsgrove; if I could, I think
I'd probably go with it. The only bad point to cable (from my point of
view) was the lack of upload bandwidth - on Be I've got 1mbit up.


David.

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