virgin media 50mb net

That can't be right.
Virgin bought out NTL.

Do you mean since NTL bought out Telewest?

 

yes my mistake NTL bought out telewest and are using the virgin name,have a look on cable forum its well know fact that virgin are ntl apparenlty as ntl have a bad name or something like that

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6343341.stm

 

NTL didn't have a bad name I think.

It is the biggest provider of cable services in the UK. They simply got subsumed under the behemoth that is Virgin Media, but effectively, I think, former NTL runs Virgin Media's broadband service, under Virgin's new "quality" guidelines (bunch of leech monkeys...)

 

what other companys provide cable broadband then???

 

Never had a major problem with my 20mb cable line i have to say. i get a solid 2.4mb sec at any site that can provide it.

 

Telewest and NTL merged, then Virgin bought them both out when they were in massive debt.

 

There might be the odd small company in places like London but nation-wide it is only Virgin now.

 

thats is good for you but myself and lodds of other ppl are having major issues with cable broadband dowload rate being put down to over subscribed servers

 

lol so ntl will be the biggest cable provider then wont they if nobody else can provide it in the uk

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6343341.stm

NTL bought mobile phone network Virgin Mobile last year, and fellow cable firm Telewest at the end of 2005. NTL are virgin with virgin being the brand name

 

Wow!

I thought it was the other way round. So was I accusing Richard Branson for nothing?

 

Virgin Media Update

A Virgin Media spokesmen said There 50 Megabyte package will be implemented during February of this year with full availabilty nationwide by the end of summer 2008. The traffic Managment is in operation between the hours of 4pm-9pm in my area which means im capped to 1 meg during this time they say it distributes bandwidth more on your grid other wise im classed as a "Hogger". I am a hard core Downloader ( I think they been watching me for a while). It was geat when you wasnt limited but it had to come i suppose i get 450kps d/l on 4 meg around 100-150 kps u/l under normal conditions but goes bad when the managments kicked in not even 1 meg 75 kps d/l 7 kps u/l non existant. P.S 4 meg customers are being upgraded to 10 meg free of charge too

 

I was capped from day one too but I don't understand the term 'Hogger'.
How can you be 'Hogger' if you're paying for an 'unlimited line'. That is exactly why you're paying all that money for, to hog it!

Essentially, what they're saying is: we want you to pay all that money for the service but we're going to penalise you for using it.

I can't wait to 'hog' the 50Mb line then.

 

It is piss poor that's what it is.

Very poor service all thanks to the government's appaling regulation of the industry.

 

But that's exactly what I meant.

the government ought to have slapped Offcom around a bit for not doing their job. they are both useless and have sold out.

 

Has anyone any ideas how is the 1 mb service at £4.50p a month?, im thinking about getting my own line just for internet gaming and abit of downloading here and there?

 

unlimited means they don't cut you off once you break a limit.

they slow everybody down in my area between ~5-9pm, I'm guessing because there isn't enough bandwidth to go around, hopefully this problem shouldn't exist when they put the new lines in.