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Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:45:38 +0000

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By: JJ Malo

JJ Malo — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:01:17 +0000

they are all crooks

BT, Tisculi and virgin them are specially

All of them try to cheat you they make things go wrong so you have to call their customer services by this way they make additional money from your call. (0871 etc numbers)

they advertise “ONLY £4.99 Broadband” but they add in small print, after 3rd month £29.00 some don’t even do that and you only see it much much later

they make you pay £11 for phone line even if you don’t want or need it

Its all a fraud

By: Johny

Johny — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:10:42 +0000

Personally, I have just taken out virgin cable broadband, after I checked my options over at ukbroadband. To be honest I didn’t really notice much of a difference from my old, ADSL based (BT) service.

After a while though, I have noticed that although the speed is not that much faster (I didn’t go for a 50mb deal!) – I do notice that the speed is more, don’t know how to say this… stable? (I hope that makes sense!)

Basically, during peak hours, the broadband speed doesn’t seem to drop as much as with my older, ADSL service… Is it just me, or does this actually make sense from a technical standpoint?

By: Best Broadband deals - Virgin Broadband, BT, Tiscali or SKY TV

Best Broadband deals - Virgin Broadband, BT, Tiscali or SKY TV — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:01:05 +0000

[...] That’s just one really valuable piece of consumer generated information which can help anybody trying to work out which is the best broadband deal out of many under consideration with the main contenders being probably Virgin Broadband, BT, Tiscali and SKY. [...]

By: bob foster`

bob foster` — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:05:41 +0000

I was interested in your link to give an opinion on a provider. I read the article for a while wondering why I did not recognize any of the companies. I wondered what U.S. city you were in. Ah, when I saw pounds, I realized Great Britain. Enjoyed.

By: McDudeqq

McDudeqq — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:00:09 +0000

Dear Ricky you are slaking the most productive fellow on the planet (arguably) saying Virgin Broadband should not be touched with a barge pole of whatever length and its a very scathing comment you then go on tO encompass the whole Corporate entity that is Branson. Having said that I can’t agree with you more and wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment in its entirety having experience of that about which you speak. DOWN WITH VIRGIN !!! (especially the broadband bit!!). (all comments are made on an entlrely alleged basis and no reference to any person or thing is intentional and any resemblance to any thing, living, created or imagined is entlrely coincidental).

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:33:23 +0000

Not everyone unfortunately can take advantage of the great deals on offer with Sky due to Geography. I only have access to Sky Connect for which they charge £17 per month and as I also want the phone and already have the Sky TV this would prove a hefty bill for a speed of less than 2mgb.

Surely it’s time they expanded the network to include potential customers who REALLY want to join but at a reasonable charge.

By: Nel

Nel — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:51:17 +0000

Will we ever have the great combination of a fast connection with unlimited downloads??

By: RichP

RichP — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:46:47 +0000

I’ve just switched from post office broadband which was afwul to O2 aftter reading really positive reviews about them on Broadband Expert and I have to say I’m really impressed so far. It’s been easy to set up, speeds are really good (I ran a speed test and got 7.2Mb and only used to get around 1.5Mb wiht the Post Office) and the connections not gone down once. I’ve not been with O2 long but I’d definitely recommend giving them a go based on my experience so far.

I’d agree with Simon’s comments that cable is better than ADSL in many instances (particular if you live a long distance from the phone exhange suppling your adsl connection). I’ve used cale in the past too and speeds where excellent though the connection dropped a few times and I don’t like Virgin’s customer support, or lack of!! Providers like O2, Be and UKOnline use ADSL2+ which delivers similar speeds to cable and would be my choice given the opyion and assuming you don’t live 3 miles plus away from the phone exchange which (with ADSL or ADSL2+ the further you are from the phone exchange the slower the speeds).

By: Ricky

Ricky — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:58:19 +0000

Whatever any one cdecides never get virgin ;;; it’s got to be the most expensive Broadband on the Planet… today’s qoute £25.00 for 4mb direct from their sales team…
Typically Branson.. Rubbish !!!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:31:56 +0000

Hi, I am shortly to move to a new flat and am disabled, I contacted BT about a line and they said that I must pay the £120 to connect a line. Why is it that BT have the monopoly on phone lines, also do I have to have a contract with them for 12 months before I can change to another supplier, as usal BT were very unhelpful. I use broadband 24/7 due to my disabilities for emailing and contacting people as I find it easier then useing a text direct (minicom).I am looking for a good supplier of broadband with fast connection, also I do not use a phone so perhaps someone could sugest a reasonable supplier. I am currently living with my carer who broadband connection I use at present which is Tiscali, but they are a utter waist of time as there call centre is in India and ask a question via email, and they send you a load of unexplainable rubbish back and not answered the question you sent them. So that has knocked me right off there broadband service. If anybody can make a sugesting then please leave some details and advise on here

By: Tradleg

Tradleg — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:28:42 +0000

correction accepted……but I think you have to use sky’s outbound pop3 email.

By: Sky Broadband deals

Sky Broadband deals — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:52:23 +0000

Once you are connected to the internet, whichever broadband deals you choose, you can then use any web based email service you like eg googlemail.com or receive POP3 emails into any email address you own using an installed email client program such as Thunderbird or Outlook.

By: Tradleg

Tradleg — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:32:56 +0000

trouble with sky is that you have to use their email service and no-one elses

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:51:43 +0000

Personally I’m a cable broadband man. After living for a number of years with both ADSL and Cable, there really is no comparison. The connection is noticeably snappier and just seems a whole lot more stable. I’m actually getting 2.5Mbps download speed at the moment, even though this cable connections is supposedly slower than my old ADSL connection and the max I ever got out of that was 800Kb.

The only two drawbacks are that you have to be in a cable area and you do pay a premium over adsl. I’ve also heard that the Virgin support isn’t great, but I’ve not had to deal with them yet. And either way, they can’t be as bad as the BT people I’ve had to deal with previously.

By: ffxi gil

ffxi gil — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:49:25 +0000

We have BT Broadband, renewed the contract recently to get free BT Vision (a freeview version of Sky Plus). We’ve decided not to install it right away as we live in an old building and don’t have a digital aerial (having previously only had Sky TV).

In 3 months, we’ve received 10 phone calls asking why we’ve not installed BT Vision and when we expect to do so. They’re not offering to install it for us, but they seem very anxious to know we have installed it. Very strange.

I would recommend BT Broadband – quite consistent, though the customer support is quite poor.

By: Pasty Muncher

Pasty Muncher — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:29:03 +0000

I added this comment over at pyjamanation

i was very disappointed that their package as you detail above added on and extra £17 per month for the Mid Broadband - it seems I live in the wrong area. I don't quite understand why ther is a difference - I thought Sky used the same wires that BT supply

By: healthranker

healthranker — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:37:39 +0000

Best broadband deals - cheap broadband or Free Sky TV...

best broadband deals reviewed with doctor with free SKY TV and the cheap broadband offer. Seems reasonable...