No Internet access
 

Thanks to virgin media I've not had Internet access for a few days. And. No idea when I wil so I've come to mcdonalds with my iPod to check my email :lol::mad:

Just thought I should say :cry:

Thought you had emigrated back to australia :lol:

Grab a 3G dongle, I use one out and about and as back up at home if power goes down, a laptop battery isn't much use if router is off:thumbdown:
£7.50 a month for 5Gb ain't bad

£7.50 for a 5gb fair usuage sounds very good, but who is offering that?

Standard pricing right now is £15 pcm with a 3gb allowance. Just curious as i work in the industry!

Virgin are cack. Very unreliable service with lots of out time and the cheeky swines make you use an expensive tech support line to even report that something is wrong:mad:

I switched to sky last year and they are great ;)

Sky are the dogs... 18months I've been with 'em... and ne'er a server prob... reasonable price too, especially if you take the phone package as well...the netgear wireless router is a bit tempremental sometimes... but I think it is mostly the position of the dongle... :thumbsup:

moneysavingexpert.com link to quidco who linked to 3 gave £7.50 for 5Gb, I wasn't asking twice just clicked and went for it
18 month contract, only upfront fees were £1.95 next day postage:thumbsup:

A wireless single would be good for doing some stuff, but imnot sure about an 18 month contract

Virgin are just incompetent and dishonest. I can't be bothered to list the series of lies but everyone you speak to comes out with a different excuse an tries to blame it on something else, like your hardware or cache or Trojans - bollocks.
So I'm in a pub with free wifi this time. :(

So this means Jimmy is going to be a burger eating lager lout :lol:

There is vodka here:blush:

I have three or four race reports I need to upload but can't at the moment

Not sure if it would help but what about a pay as you go dongle ? dont know how much your uploading would zap the usage and we could give donations :blush:

actually not as bad as you might think, will post more tomorrow if anyone is interested. btw that offer with 3 is a cheque back deal, so not as good as you may have thought, as well as being connected to the worst network for coverage in the uk. also watch the fair use policy if you exceed the usuage they bill at about £2 per meg.

Mine's not cheque back, I hate those things, it's a straight £7.50 a month direct debit, and with 5Gb I can surf freely enough, got the home machine for high downloads, it is when I am out and about with my netbook it comes into it's own.Has helped with power going down at home though, laptop is no use without a router.

After 2 days of Internet virgin dropped the ball again and I'm at maccies with my iPod - makes running a website pretty hard :(

Poor jimmy.

A

I am with sky also, no probs and I have the top broadband conection for £10 a month unlimited :thumbsup::thumbsup:

I've recently transfered over to Virgin from SKY as I was having the complete opposite to you guys. SKY were treating me awfully on the TV front and the Internet was 50/50 at best. Virgin have been fine with me so far (touch wood) and everything is working as it should

I'm on a virgin now and it's ace :p

G

I have the most basic sky net service and it is faster and more reliable than the premium Virgin service ever was.

In theory the virgin hardware (cable) should have the advantage, but the service / company is so poorly ran. The reality is (and any virgin employees we have on here may wish to correct me on this) that there is still wide variation between the ex Telewest areas (good) and the ex NTL areas (complete garbage).

I'm ex NTL and it's indeed complete garbage - this company should be closed down.

NTL / Virgin

cable broadband never had an issue with apart from we went
wireless @ home and I didn't realise I needed a new mac
address. Got a new modem with new mac address inside 2 or 3
days

TV
pain in the arse when phoning to sort out their c**kups when
they over charge.

Never drops a TV signal though. If not in use we switch off the
box of tricks overnight (not left ob standby) and reboot it in
the morning. That way it always gets the latest updates they
may have sent down the wire.

Biggest issue we've had was getting a new remote for the cable box. They started out @ something like week to 12 days to get one to me due to the way it has to be release through the system. Couldn't we just get up and down to from our seats to change channels like they used to do in the 60's/70's before remotes came out etc, cheeky bar-stewards. Told someone in Virgin that the company wasn't as big as it is today because Richard Branson didn't sit on his arse, he kicked them and theirs would be next if I got through to Richard. Happy ending is that like buses they come in 3's. 3 remotes came the following day
rant over