UK broadband

[phantasmagoria]

fuck virgin media. my connection has been shit during peak times for months now, getting 50% packetloss this evening and i can't be arsed with it. I no longer care much about speed, as long as it's constant (ie i don't want to be raped down to 512k after 6pm) and i want a reliable ping during all hours.

Who do you homos use? idnet seem to get good reviews, is anyone with them?

[Don Carlos]

I am with Sky broadband and my connection is perfect

I am on the unlimited thingy and I have never been restricted at any time. 750 at 6am/10am/1pm/7pm/1am

£12.50 a month if you have Sky TV too...

[phantasmagoria]

mmm apparently i can upgrade my VM connection from 20MB to 30 and it'll put me on docsis3 (whatever that is) which might be more reliable.

[Don Carlos]

Check Sky first mate - See what they can do for you if you want a steady connection

[phantasmagoria]

this is just a one off £30 payment, but a couple of forums reckon i can ring them up and get them to do it free.

the thing is that VM were brilliant up to about october last year and then they went to shit almost overnight.

[vesp]

Depends where you are I guess, pretty much centre of the city where I am and never had a problem with VM

Go through to Retentions ("are you thinking of leaving us") and they can do pretty much anything, particularly if you are out of contract and CAN actually leave them (we got the V+ box for an offer price and an upgrde to our services for less money per month!)

[Don Carlos]

Oooooo you off GAY O L??

[seremtan]

BT have surprisingly been ok, though forget about torrents in the early evening

[brisk]

Depends where you are I guess, pretty much centre of the city where I am and never had a problem with VM

Go through to Retentions ("are you thinking of leaving us") and they can do pretty much anything, particularly if you are out of contract and CAN actually leave them (we got the V+ box for an offer price and an upgrde to our services for less money per month!)

Yep, VM is unquestionably the best ISP in Britain..... IF you're in an area where they're not complete fuckups. I'm very lucky that my speed is consistantly high (i'm on 30mbit) and very rarely have any connection issues. On the other hand, i've heard so many horror stories about VM and every time I have had to ring tech support, it's been completely and utterly suicide-enducing. Indian call centers, staffed by script monkeys who don't have a fucking clue.

So yeah, as long as it remains stable, VM ftw. But god help you when it doesn't.

As for an alternative, the one I hear people speak most often of on the VM forums is Sky. BT are rolling out fiber optics too, so hopefully more DSL based services can finally compete with cable for speed.

[seremtan]

"carphone warehouse"

as anachronistic as "20th century fox"

[brisk]

Indian call centers, staffed by script monkeys who don't have a fucking clue.

aol/carphone warehouse were like that, won't discuss anything until they've gone through their checklist of murrr
one top thing with orange, if on their mobile net, you can just dial 150 and start yelling to someone who understands, for free
although i'm hoping i won't have to :/

My mate was once on AOL and when he asked tech support how to use FTP (to download, not to run a server) they said "FTP isn't supported"

How the fuck is FTP not supported? That makes no sense whatsoever.

Pretty much told me everything I needed to know about that particular company.

[Mat Linnett]

I'm in the process getting rid of Virgin (cable) broadband and switching to TalkTalk.
They've been incredibly unreliable recently, and their support line is so convoluted, it means I'm frequently spitting teeth by the time I get through to a human, who then tries to blame my router or some other such bullshit.

Last week on Wednesday I got disconnected, phoned up to complain, at the end of which they made an appointment for an engineer to come out on the weekend. The next day I got a text saying they'd fixed the problem and so had cancelled the engineer.
Except the fuckers HADN'T fixed it.
I phoned again on Friday night only to be advised that they'd diagnosed signal power problems in my area and that they'd be fixed by Sunday midday.
Except they weren't.

Of course, this came after I'd got completely narked off with their bandwidth caps and called TalkTalk to arrange a new line installation.
I've also had connection problems on and off for a year now, inevitably caused by incompetent Virgin engineers not re-distributing other connections properly in my building when someone moves into one of the other flats.

Seriously, with a 10Mb connection, I get half an hour downloading at 1.1MB/s, after which the "Fair Use" policy kicks in and I get throttled at 300Kbps. What the fuck is the point of having a connection that doesn't perform as advertised?
Oh yeah, and even though capping ends at 9PM in the evening, if you were capped before that time, the cap remains in place for 4 hours, even if that takes you into the time after 9PM.
Cunts.

TalkTalk are giving me a 24Mb connection with no capping for about the same price, and a colleague reports that this connection has been a lot better than his previous Virgin one.

[bam!]

lol internet

[Don Carlos]

lol internet

If I could delete your posts, I would

[bam!]

lol internet

If I could delete your posts, I would

I'm too much of a man to do that to anyone, even though I had set the bad example years ago with removing or editing all the trolling of noobs in Q3D (was asked by raw to keep it squashed). Didn't expect halfwit overly-sensitive girlie moderators/admins to follow suit in forums where it had no place, but here we now are with less than 15 regulars and mods still abusing power.

gg mental midgets.

[Plan B]

What do you get out of posting here?

[Ryoki]

A good troll is welcome on these forums bam, we all like a good laugh. It's just that the way you troll is juvenile, devoid of funny and mostly annoying. I too wonder what you get out of posting here. Is it making an arse out of yourself, then posting a cryfest like your post above, to enhance your sense of self justification? You child.

PS i support donneh for GD mod if he promises to delete or otherwise alter at least 50% of your posts, seems like a fun idea

[Captain]

He's got my vote considering griddla is just a slightly fatter version of beanyuh.

[Don Carlos]

I don't need to be GD mod again chaps, thanks for your support though!

[seremtan]

piddla saw the word 'broadband' and thought it was a reference to his waistline

[bam!]

yeah that guy is FAT

how fat?

so fat, he shows up on radar
so fat, he leaves footprints in concrete
so fat, if he wore a GoodYear hat, he'd look like a blimp
so fat, people jog around him for exercise
got stopped at the airport for having 200 pounds of crack
high school graduation picture was an aerial photograph

[Captain]

Only a matter of time now.

[bam!]

lol @ Mazduh posting pics of a one-man Q3W demolition crew

[vesp]

Yep, VM is unquestionably the best ISP in Britain..... IF you're in an area where they're not complete fuckups. I'm very lucky that my speed is consistantly high (i'm on 30mbit) and very rarely have any connection issues. On the other hand, i've heard so many horror stories about VM and every time I have had to ring tech support, it's been completely and utterly suicide-enducing. Indian call centers, staffed by script monkeys who don't have a fucking clue.

So yeah, as long as it remains stable, VM ftw. But god help you when it doesn't.

As for an alternative, the one I hear people speak most often of on the VM forums is Sky. BT are rolling out fiber optics too, so hopefully more DSL based services can finally compete with cable for speed.

Yes, the Indian call centre stuff is crap, so you're absolutely right that if you have a problem with VM, then it's guaranteed to be a massively annoying one.

I think the reason most people would switch to Sky from Virgin is that most of em (me included) probably get TV+Broadband(+landline?) as a package, so they're the only other viable alternatives really.