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Does anyone know if Virgin make a good broadband package? I may not be able to reply back here for a couple of days or so as I am still on the road.
Best,
Poppi
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Poppi
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- you don't have a phone line
- you don't have access to a phone line
- you don't want to get a landline phone and i.e. just use mobile.
Virgin runs on cable which is a bit more expensive than ADSL (which most people use), but you'll be saving from not paying BT's set-up fee for the phone line and you're obviously not having to pay their £9/month line rental.
If you're nomadic, then you best seek one of the mobile providers - just ask at any of the major mobile phone stores. They give you a a USB stick, not dissimilar to a wireless adapter, but instead of looking for routers, you are online all the time, as long as you have a mobile signal. Prices are around about the same as Virgin's, at £25/month. I believe that speeds are broadband speeds i.e. 4mbit or 8mbit, but you're limited to about 7 gb transfer per month.
We'll be doing to XL (extra large) 20 Mb broadband and I think on their firbre optic cables. Not too sure about this yet. And their TV which again will be 'XL' for umm, I think it was 140 channels as we have to buy a decent TV now we've got a flat and settled in minus the broadband.
Best and many thanks again,
Poppi
The broadband on the other hand, depends on the speeds you want.
EDIT
If you sign up using one of the 'Recommend a friends' you could get a free sky+ Box!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/virgin_letters_numbers/
You do get something (vouchers?) if you ecommend a friend to Virgin as well.
Both myself and a close friend are with virgin and we've certainly not had long periods of down time, occasionally my modem goes a bit odd, but I think thats more my crappy computer than anything else and it only doesnt work for 15 mins or so.
As for the V+ Box, its a fucking wonder, record two programmes while still watching one you recorded previously, plus there is loads of shows to watch on demand.
As far as I know, Sky+ has dual tuners. This means you can record two channels and watch something already saved, or watch one and record one.
You can't watch or record more channels than you have tuners. It's a non-debateable fact. Anyway, this thread was asking about Virgin... which offer a great package, even if Sky has better TV and EPG.
I've got sky+, its got two tuners. So you can 'watch' two channels, record one or both. I think what accessdenied is saying is that with virgin it has three tuners.
"As for the V+ Box, its a fucking wonder, record two programmes while still watching one you recorded previously, plus there is loads of shows to watch on demand."
Thanks for that. I ordered a V+ today.
many thanks everyone for your encouragements.
Best,
Poppi
I spoke to their customer service last night and had to stop myself from bursting in to laughter when one of their blatantly east Asian operators answered as "Hello, Dave Smith speaking, how may I insist?"
Branson might be a bit of a show off git, but he's not Murdock. You are wise to reject Sky and all it stands for.
Initially we thought the broadband package was only going to be 20 Mbps. But we're running 100, and it's great!
Poppi
That might be your network speed, not your internet speed
100mbps
Isnt South Korea the only country with speeds like this?
I think so, I remember hearing something on the radio a while ago saying that they have virtually done away with hard drives there, everything is stored on your own bit of a server because its so fast.
I know where you got the '100' from though. It's that symbol with two computer screens down in the taskbar sat by the clock. When you hover your mouse over it, it will pop up with a speech bubble with something like "connected at 100 mbit/s".