Tag: virgin media

Situation report – Virgin Media, a month in

Bloody hell. The speed is great, the TV service is OK.. but… oh dear, everything else has just been terrible. The On Demand wasn’t working for days on end, so I complained. They eventually fixed it. Then parts of it broke again and, days later, it’s still not fixed. This is how things are tonight. Access to Facebook has broken… Read more →

Hello Virgin Media..

I’ve recently switched to Virgin Media. I wrote a large and rather geeky feature about it. The broadband speed is good. Very good. In fact, if you get your WiFi setup right then you can easily get more than you’re paying for. Here, for example, is my 200Mbps broadband speed test.. Trouble is, today is Tuesday and none of the… Read more →

Got the right type of broadband?

Remember my earlier post about broadband? It’s a subject that a lot of people either don’t know about, or think they know about. I know, because in my previous job I was one of the guys on the end of the phone in a business ISP. The sheer amount of people calling up about broadband speeds was frightening, with some… Read more →