Virgin/NTL/Telewest

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Anyone out there using Virgin Broadband (or old NTL/Telewest) customers.

I'm moving into a flat which already has cable installed, I've always had adsl in the past...

they offer 2mb, 4mb and 10mb packages.

[JonnySpeed]

virgin has really upped the quality of service.

I have 10MB which goes upto 20MB in May :)

If you have a wireless ADSL router you need to buy a new DSL one that works with ethernet line-in which is about £70 for a decent Linksys one with speedbooster and good support./compatability. The quality and speed for me was atleast double what I was getting from Zen via BT.

As for TV. Losing Sky One just shows you 95% of it is utter shit and the rest you can get before it even goes out on Sky through bittorrent. no worries there and pretty funny really. Good way to send your audeinec to just pirate the american stuff they pay million to licence.

Go for it.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I got an Airport Extreme which has Ethernet in already, so I should be ok.

20mb.. crikey.. still it's £35 a month.. that's well steep.

I think the 4mb package might actually do me, I don't have time to consume all the stuff I download as it is :)

I'd just get the free TV package.

[JonnySpeed]

10Mbit per second (bps) is the speed rather than the maximum download size in MBytes.

So for 10Mbit per second you get a max download speed of 1280MBytes per seconds (8 bits to the byte).

So for 20Mbit per second it doubles that.

For a comparison MP3 at 192Kbps is quite high quality so with ~20,000Kbps you can download high quality video pretty fast.

Final speeds are dependant on alot of different factors including sppeed of the sit and other bottle necks along the way.

Hope this is clear as mud, steev :)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Yeah i know its Mbit not byte. I don't really do anything that warrants even 10mbit tho. I download too many dvd iso's at 512kbps :)

[JonnySpeed]

ah ok. soz that probably sounded really patronising :)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

What about the V+ box thing, any good?
The missus is eyeing it up...

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

just ordered it.. they're actually giving me the 20mb package, plus phone with free evening and weekend calls and basic cable TV package for £30.95 a month...

you only get those prices if you ring up though, not online...

[AVX23]

I got virgin/ntl/telewest, and I'm really pleased with them, been like that for years, and the service is good, also - the bandwidth is what it sez on the tin - I check it regularly, and it's always consistent.


I'm also changing my mobile to virgin , cos yeh get 300free mins, 300free txts for 10quid a month.

[Yer_Maw]

cable all the way. adsl is pish.

[wheezer]

what's the upstream on these packages like? do they come with a permanent ip? any port filtering?

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

768kbps upstream, no port filtering as far as I know, not sure about static IP.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I did hear though that Sky Broadband throttle VPN access, it crawls.

[Tec]

Anyone out there using Virgin Broadband (or old NTL/Telewest) customers.

I'm moving into a flat which already has cable installed, I've always had adsl in the past...

they offer 2mb, 4mb and 10mb packages.

I have the 10 mb package. As far as i'm concerned its the quickest line you can get into a house (apart from lease obvioulsy)...always consistent speeds.

I have 3 boxes all running from the same single line using a 3 way co-ax splitter, with no performance lulls or signal fuck-ups.

[Tec]

I did hear though that Sky Broadband throttle VPN access, it crawls.

They do, badly.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

hopefully Virgin won't do that, I rely heavily on it.

Wheee, I'm looking forward to the speed.

[Tec]

Get a dbox2 aswell..well worth it.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

wassat?

[wheezer]

I did hear though that Sky Broadband throttle VPN access, it crawls.

maybe sky uses cisco routers - those actually suck with MTUs of VPNs

[Tec]

Its a Linux driven multimedia terminal.

www.dbox2.co.uk