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Looking at Virgin ADSL

Hi,

I am currently with Nildram on a 2mb connection for £23.99 a month...
I get 50gb usage + last months unused usage carried over... Which is very good.. I've never had a problem with the and pings are good.

BUT...

There are cheaper deals around, however they have their usage caps.. Virgin attracted me as they do the 8mb and have their cap but it seems like a pretty good fair usage system... This is for £17.99 a month... and I'm looking to save as much as possible as I'm looking to buy a house at some stage this year...

Only thing that worries me is the posts about the bad pings? The trace routes I've seen seem to go through the NTL side of things.. Now we don't have a cable digital line running down our road even though it does 100m away (bit of a bummer).. But our area is what was Telewest Blueyonder.. So does anyone thing that it would be any different to the NTL area's?!

I'm not sure how it all works so just asking...

Thanks
 
No way - Its awful :D

Pings are terrible and so are download speeds - support costs 25ppm!
Their Cable areas are ok (especially the old Telewest ones) but the ADSL is just utter turd:

Not sure why my graphs are missing information but:
surreyhouse.dyndns.org_small.png

johnnixon.no-ip.org_small.png


Compare that to a normal ADSL line:
mikemm.no-ip.org_small.png

No peak-time ping rise.

Tom - www.mouselike.org
 
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l'll admit they arent the best but they arnt the worst.. only had a few issues and they have been mostly billing related.
 
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Virgin ADSL

I agree with the previous correspondent. After 9AM the speed decreases throughout the day to around 200 and sometimes less.
 
Stay away from Virginmedia ADSL.

Cable : Big yes
ADSL : Big NO NO
 
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