Isp

[Stuart]

We've for the first time decided to look at our providers from gas/electric to ISP. We've worked out that we'd save £200.00 a year by changing our gas/elec to scottish power. So now were looking at our ISP. We've only ever used BT until last year when we moved to Tiscali then mainly due to the fact that BT seemed unable to organise a piss up in a brewery when we moved and it was quicker to get tiscali than wait a year for BT to get its arse in gear. Now with Virgin media, SKY etc I'm keen to hear who uses what and what in real life are they like never mind the 8MB its a dreamland for me.

I thought about a poll, but thought better of it.....I know on here SKY has had a bit of stick. What about Virgin or a.n.other.

[del19_82]

I have Sky Max, I never have any problems with it. Costs £10 per month & get an average of 8 meg unlimited downloads. You need to have a full sky package to get it for that price

[David Drew]

Hi Stuart,

Been on Virgin.net for a few years. Just got round to cheapening my package as prices have dropped over the years.:o

No real probs - except - they charge 090 numbers to contact them. They seem to hide behind internet service & these premium rate numbers if you want to get hold of them. When you do ring they refer you to an internet address.....but that's the whole point you dimmocks, the f***ing internet ain't working:mad::mad:.

So I wouldn't promote Virgin, but I will stay with them until something better comes along.

By the way...thanks for everything this year & I look forward to sponsoring the site in 2008. Great work.

Cheers

David

[jamiem]

im on virgin 4mb. £25 a month and its been brilliant for the past 4 years :) never had any appreciable down time, always download at approx 500k a sec, it just works :)

[David Drew]

[quote=jamiem;98219]im on virgin 4mb. £25 a month and its been brilliant for the past 4 years :) never had any appreciable down time, always download at approx 500k a sec, it just works :)[/quote]

I was at £25. Just gone to £17 per month. Seems to work just as well & It's SUPPOSED to be 8Mb...but a speed check shows it at 0.8Mb:mad:. I think I'll try some of those speed checker sites.

David

[Steve]

BT here. Been using them for 8 years or more. No complaints.

I upgraded to their new HomeHub unit earlier this year and have had no problems what-so-ever with it.

[Dashik]

Virginmedia here, used to be called Telewest. 20mb and its been fine for the last 8 years.

[raptorheli2]

i also have virgin 20mb, superb and rarely offline.

what people need to remember is when you buy a package they are playing on words a little with the speeds. the speed they offer for talking sake when they say 8meg, that is not 8 meg as most know it (i.e 128meg of mem etc). it is 8 Mb (notice the capital M and small case b) which means Mega bit. therefore it is 1/8th of a MB (notice the 2 capital letters now) which is a Mega Byte. or in other words 8 bits = 1 byte.

to sum that up i'm on a 20Mb connection here with virgin. so if i divide that by 8 to get into MB that is the ACTUAL speed you in THEORY (note that word) i will see. so 20/8= 2.5MB. i just tested mine and i actually got 2.4MB so my connection is about right. or in other words i got 19.2Mb in ISP talk.

as a footnote here do not trust any of the test sites. what people should do is go to a high bandwidth network and download something (right click and save target as), microsoft downloads are normally good for this.

cheers

[Dashik]

Opps! Forgot about that. And yes I can confirm that I get 2.4 all the time normally apart from when they throttle it under fair use.

[quanter]

What ever you do don't go with Orange, a friend of mine mentioned that she couldn't get on to the 'net. I suggested resetting the ADSL modem as sometimes the exchange seems to loose synch, as we are out in the sticks here. Didn't work, so told her to ring the support line, guy in India who told her to power cycle everything and when that didn't work told her to wait a day (A DAY!!) and then try again. Still no joy, she was then told that there was a problem with her account and it would take 10 days to sort out. Had it been me I would have gone ballistic. I have heard of quite a few others having similar problems.
Brian

[SteveH39]

i'm on Virgin media, £20 per month for 2mb, phoneline with free calls 24/7 except to mobiles and premium rates.