After suffering for far too long with poor ADSL performance, I finally ditched my TalkTalk ADSL service and replaced it with cable from Virgin Media. A couple of years ago I was getting 8Mb on my ADSL line. In recent times I’ve been struggling to hit 2Mb. The breaking point came when one of my former colleagues sent me a picture of his speedtest.net result showing a 30Mb service on a day when I was struggling to get connected.
I went for the cheapest service Virgin Media offer. I’m paying for 10Mb and I’m actually getting 10Mb (who’da thunk it). I figured that things have been so slow recently, 10Mb would feel rapid and sure enough it does. No doubt in a few weeks I’ll be bitching about it and want to upgrade… 🙂
The change over left me with one little issue. My Virgin router is down stairs, but my wired network is upstairs. That problem was solved today when a man in a van dropped off a present from Amazon in the form off a “Buffalo Wireless-N Nfiniti Dual Band Ethernet Converter”. I plugged that into my switch upstairs and Bob’s your uncle, I now have a bridged network.
The MacBook Pro and iPad have once again been relegated to scrapyard side of my desk and I’m back to using my main desktop. Aaahhhh Linux…
Cheers
Tim…
I cannot agree more. VIRGIN MEDIA Customer services is BIG CRAP.
I was asked to make payments on friday but I told the finance dept that I will make payments on Monday as i needed to have access to my office for debit card. Nontheless my phone was barred and the amount went up by over £100.00.Nontheless I paid,by debit card on Mon 8.30 am but my line remained barred. I called about 2 pm, I weas told it will take up to 24 hrs. i was surprised as the full payment was done via a debit card. I waited 24 hrs and the line was still barred. I called Virgin Media and spoke to a tele agent, eventually I had to ask a for a supervisor. She said it will take up to 3-4 hours. The line remained barred. I call at 6pm and I am told that it now will take another 24 hrs from this morning, from the supervisor’s activation. I have lost many business calls abroad . I think Virgin has employed idiots who can only say Sir / madam, but performance is crap