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I have heard that he's a major shareholder in BT.

Hmmmmm...

Huh, so everyone likes BT and hates Virgin... Interesting.

We tried BT when we first moved into our house, about 7yrs ago. We told them that the TV and Phone would be nice but we needed the internet (and I mean medically need the internet!!). They said "Sure, no probs".

What they meant to say was "Sure, the internet connection stops 200 yards away from your house and we will mess about for a month not telling you this."

We have had a happy and reliable relationship with Virgin ever since.

>Huh, so everyone likes BT and hates Virgin... Interesting.<


Hmmm, I think that would be a massive misinterpretation of the backlog myself

Appologies, I didnt mean it to sound harsh. I cant think of the right word to use instead.

I've never had (a) Virgin, so couldn't comment.

I'm a lonely old one and you've had me on here for a while
I can still double declutch, I miss those days of venerable old landrovers, bit like me really

I have

Can't fault virgin on their connection; maybe down three or four times in a decade... But the price is a rip off... I'm paying £44 per month, just for the internet really; true there is a phone line but I don't use that a great deal and ou can't have one without the other... They keep calling me up and telling me how I can save money by taking out a TV package (apprently having the Cable TV plus broadband plus phone, is cheaper than just having phone and Broadband), but I don't want bluddy TV... They just can't understand this, and so I'm stuck paying for it If I could get a BT line with a decent speed, then I could get the internets providered by a third party, and it'd be maybe twenty quid a month for the same speed broadband I get now, plus whatever the basic charge from BT is to have a phone line in
Virgin speed on the broadband can be a little* patchy during differnt times of the day though; they're not as good as NTL (the previous cable company who opperating here before the government allowed Virgin to form a total monopoly of the entire Cable network in the UK),

Err but NTL alloted the bandwidth better to users so if like me your paying for the largest broadband package, you'd be alloted a suitable amount of bandwidth... Virgin tweek about with it during the day and basically I subsidise people on the cheaper packages as part of my bandwidth gets turned over to them during 'peek time'

I miss ... the days before the internet, when people, like, you know... used to ... meet... and talk to each other

Wait until BT starts rolling out the old fibre optic, then Virgin will just have to force their prices down.

I miss Telewest. They were awesome

Yes... but its a long wait; I remember looking about the areas they're planning to do in the first few years of the roll out... no where near me and in the meantimes... oo about £4K the past ten years or so I've lived here, just for internet and phone line I mean... I hardly ever use the internet much these days... long gone were the times when I'd be on 19 of every 24 hours... I'm lucky to get even just 15 or 16 hours on the net a day any more

Yeah, I'm only averaging about 20 hours these days

Its a sign of the times... having to cut back on our intenet usage to such low levels

"Wait until BT starts rolling out the old fibre optic, then Virgin will just have to force their prices down."

They are doing this in my town now. Bloody BT vans parked up on the side of the road, always in at least pairs and sometimes there are three, and the town is crawling with them. What the hell are they thinking? Can't they put two people in the same van!

I can't check when they are doing what area, I can't find anything that tells me. I asked one of the BT blokes though.

I vagely remember reading a news article about it when they announced it... It just gave the towns etc, not individual roads or districts but I did notice that here wasn't on ther list

I'm on what ever my IT lets me get away with I actually avoided the top 20 offenders list and a "please explain" this month for being on non-work related website ie BBC. Only because I was on leave

How do you feel about the "Server too busy!" page now?

How do you feel about the "Server too busy!" page now?

I've had two "Server too busy!" messages while trying to post this. Ah, irony.

No I don't like that. I did get the 'an unknown error has occurred' which gave me a warm cuddly feeling though.