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NTL (of course now Virgin Media) deliver the goods. To be honest I have been with them over 6 years now with next to no issues at all, infact I have had interrupted service maybe four times in total.
I looked at Bulldog & they want £100 connection fee :shock:
I didn't know that Tiscali have their own LLU ADSL service - thought they were still selling the BT Wholesale service....
As for Bulldog - I looked at their site and in the small print it says:
Connection charge is £30 if transferring from an active BT phone line. Customers who do not have an active BT line will require a new line connection - the charge for this is £99.
So, maybe it'll only cost you £30 for the connection.
regards
Tim
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Thinking of upping my speed soon, going to wait until my next bill comes as I can't workout the full cost for all my services as I have had various credits and debits in the last few months that are not part of my normal service.
Also sent an email to Virgin Media asking them nicely to attempt to increase the upload speeds as I see no reason they should be so low nowadays
Timby wrote:if any one wants a laugh try going across the pond @ http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ you can also post your results if your brave enough :lol:
Timby wrote:if any one wants a laugh try going across the pond @ http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ you can also post your results if your brave enough :lol:
that came out slightly faster @ 2390/376
WOW that is a surprise, I only get 3280 down and 340up if I use the Washington server?
Yes Timbo, our exchange is about 0.5 of a mile away so not quite at the end of the drive but not far off!
Terry, that is exactly the speed I had for months with BT. It's due to them getting the initial line speed test wrong in the first 10 day. They're too stupid to work it out, I had a 'max threshold rate' of 504Kbps. No one ever thought this might be the problem, I just heard the person mumbling it to themselves and jumped on it asking them to re test it.
I looked at Bulldog & they want £100 connection fee :shock:
I didn't know that Tiscali have their own LLU ADSL service - thought they were still selling the BT Wholesale service....
As for Bulldog - I looked at their site and in the small print it says:
Connection charge is £30 if transferring from an active BT phone line. Customers who do not have an active BT line will require a new line connection - the charge for this is £99.
So, maybe it'll only cost you £30 for the connection.
regards
Tim
You're right, £99 was for a new line installation.
After a bit of research, Cable & Wireless sold Bulldog to Pipex in sept 06 since then 20% of the subscribers have left which uses the Tiscali network, and their reputation isn't very good, BT is looking favourite at the moment.
Yet this is what my isp says i'm running at
IP profile for your line is - 500 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 5440 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 359 kbps
Just a bit different mmm
Free evening and weekend calls and up to 8 on the broadband, bundle 2 I think it was (started at a lower price then sneaked up while I wasn't looking). Never had a problem with Virgin.net since I started with their dial up about 10 years ago but it is a luxury as sky is free for 2GB or £5 for a 40GB usage allowance so I will save £120 or £180/year which will help with the leccy bills
Even though my speed test says 'Telewest', it's all Virgin Media now. I pay for the 'M' broadband, which is £18/mnth for 'unlimited' 2Gb, which I usually get, except teatime and breakfast of course!
I'd be interested in the Sky broadband as I've been a Sky customer since analogue (pre-card!) But I don't have a BT line into the house, so I'd have to include the reconnect cost and the line rental also.
I am not sure it is worth switching if you have got to add BT line rental (about £12 a month?) most of the saving would be gone and if there is a BT reconnection charge it would take a while just to break even. One drawback with the Sky sagem wireless router is only 2 ethernet sockets, I could connect 5 PCs to the virgin speedtouch box although on the plus side the Sky wireless signal seems better. Depending on your Sky package it might be cheaper to get everything from Virgin.
Ouch!! Mine should now be about £27 to include broadband, Sky minimum tv package (approx 200 channels*), free evening & weekend calls and BT line rental. No multi room, HD or daytime calls in the week :(
This is the highest I have had so far with my ISP, it generally floats any where around 13,000 & 20,000 kb/s. This is based on my wireless connnection.
Waiting for the 50Mb Broadband to come out, will see how much it is, probaly mega expensive to start with
We've had a Demon ADSL line since it became available at our house, some 9-10 years I think. It's been reasonably reliable but it has never managed to impress anyone with its speed.
This is the sort of speed we got
Today we've switched over to BT Infinity and we now get this
Was looking around the Virgin site and found you can have a free Super hub and double speed
Was on 16/20meg
The engineer also told me the area speed (Nuneaton) will be doubled in July ... yay!
Now I'm at:
Maybe I should have stopped BU while I did it?
Also standard Plusnet but I get it much cheaper than others as I've been on a 'special offer' for a couple of years. They keep trying to get me to upgrade but I'm not falling for that
Mark
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