Fuck virgin media!
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Cohen




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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 10:38    Post subject: Fuck virgin media!
Just canceled out of my VM contract. What a fucking shit heap service.. download for more than 30 mins in peak times = reduced to 1mb speeds Twisted Evil

I've done my research now and found that the only 'truly unlimited' (no fair use policy crap) broadband available in the UK is either business broadband from Eclipsenet OR Sky broadband's Unlimited package. Which actually doesnt look too bad at all, 24mb speed (although I will get around 6-7mb tops due to location) and *no fair usage policy, truly unlimited*.

About time some of these SHIT ISP's take note, Sky leading the way forward.

Fuck you VM.


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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 10:46    Post subject:
Fuck you WGM
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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 10:47    Post subject:
No, Fuck You FM


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Newty182




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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 10:48    Post subject: Re: Fuck virgin media!
wgem wrote:
Just canceled out of my VM contract. What a fucking shit heap service.. download for more than 30 mins in peak times = reduced to 1mb speeds Twisted Evil


Actually it's more like 45 mins Cool Face

Doesn't bother me too much. I'm on 10Mb and can download just under 8GB in the day and still avoid getting capped.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

50Mb is unlimited.


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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 10:55    Post subject:
So they say, but there are talks over on AVforum that they are starting to threaten 50mb users with Letters stating that if they persist in excessive use they will be switched onto a throttled service or forced to pay an added fee :/

This shit really fucks me off, why advertise as unlimited 24/7 if its only unlimited for 45 mins a day. Sounds so much like false advertising to me :/


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Lathieza




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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 10:59    Post subject:
I'm happy with my 20 MB connection which i top all the time on full speed and where i have no caps at all Very Happy

Not even download limits Very Happy


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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 11:01    Post subject:
fair usage lol...that would be a ludicrous business idea in Scandinavia


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Cohen




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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 11:13    Post subject:
yeah you lucky fucking scandies get everything Twisted Evil

All .eu in fact.. Gimme one of them 100mb swedish lines anyday too Sad


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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 13:28    Post subject:
lol good luck with sky broadband
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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 13:54    Post subject:
be* internet, truly unlimited, they dont care...


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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 22:22    Post subject:
I have 20meg also i just download the biggest files in the day or weekend no capping, even when capped i get 5-6 meg so not too bad..

Yea good luck on the phone line bb, i 'd get a max of 2 meg on sky,bt ect where i am so being capped to 5 or 6 meg between 4-9pm doesn't seem too bad compared..


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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 22:23    Post subject:
Sky is the way to go Wgem
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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 22:33    Post subject:
GeordieRacer wrote:
Sky is the way to go Wgem


If your close to your local exchange yes, but for alot of people their not. my mate across the road was on sky and got max 2 meg.. they told me i'd get max of 4meg.. bollocks

But if i was close and got 20meg i'd switch definitely, atm with vm i get 23meg average on 20meg package..


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PostPosted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 23:21    Post subject:
the fair usage policy has been spreading fast/roll out for a while now, the new tools being used buy an outside source is behind alot of the traffic sharing stuff etc etc and monitoring.. This was originaly mentioned by gordon brown and co even before he was made PM..

I never used to get capped with what i leeched on bt but in last 6mnths its been up and down all over, only to find with a phone call other day that even though im on unlimited option 3 package i get a cap of 100gb a mnth leeched..

THe worse thing is and at least i think virgin media do it on daily basis, is..... bt if u go over that 100gb use they cap you in peak time to 1.2mb from 5pm to 12pm and its for 31 days Very Happy before they release it..

Now that fucking made me go mental other day when I found out and had to make some calls hehe.... she lifted the bar this once and i now use a rough guide with a usage monitor cause being capped that amoung of time peak periods for a whole mnth is fucking rediculous..

This works out like 3.333gb a day max use for me to hit my cap... lols... ok if i surf and not leech its fine of course, but why not just say, ok look cap me peak times to 1.2mb and ill downoad after midnight when its back on till next evening but charge me less for the privalidge eh.. fuckers...

its not so much i found the game downloading as i dont get too much in a mnth like that, but its the fucking streaming of youtube and so forth lol that seems to be the worse cuplrit... annoying i like my stuff on youtube Very Happy... Now i goto be careful and its blows..
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