virgin BB and email address.

mrred66

hi all,

been with virgin broadband for 9 years and paying £15.30 a month, as i am on adsl broadband the speed is only1.1mb but is ok for me, my land line is with bt at £12 a month inc eve+weekend calls, total of £27.30.

if i were to go with bt on their 'summer deal'=anytime calls and home hub wireless BB for £16 a month +line rental my total would be £28.

could i keep my virginmedia email address when i leave virgin?

will the connection speed be any good 30 ft away from the home hub?

mainly thinking of leaving because virgins customer service are expensive and useless.

Swipe

The wireless range on a BT home hub is very good. My parents works up to 60ft away, half way down the garden.

Buzby

No - your Virgin ISP email would cease as soon as you terminated. One of the best adverts for non-ISP email like Gmail/GMX etc ever!

spike7451

You'll loose your VM e-mail address,as Busby said above.

macman

Why would you want to keep it? It takes 10 minutes to set up a Gmail account.

mrred66

macman wrote: »

Why would you want to keep it? It takes 10 minutes to set up a Gmail account.

thanks for all your replies:beer:

i would like to keep it because 9 years of passwords/log ins etc are registered to that email account not to mention my personal emails.
i do have a yahoo, and AOL seperate email but i didnt want the hassle of telling everyone and updating sites etc.

good to hear the bt home hub will work 60ft away.

macman

'Telling everyone' takes one group email to your address book. The alternative is that you'll have to stay with VM... forever.
The worst case is that the whole process might take you a couple of hours. You only have to do it once.

qpop

You'll realise that you can list the number of accounts you use regularly on your fingers usually, at least the ones that the email address matter. For me its things like paypal, ebay, amazon, my ISP, my webhosting, etc.

For most other things a simple mailout to everyone that has mailed you in the last 90 days and anyone else in your address book that your email has changed will help.

www.gmail.com will allow you to set up a free and non-ISP-dependant e-mail address, and once you've done that if you follow this help article: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273 you should even be able to set it up to receive your Virgin e-mail (until they cancel your address). Depending on the e-mail client you use you can migrate all of your existing e-mails to Google as well.

An analogy of your situtation would be refusing to move to a nicer, cheaper house with neighbours that didn't swear at you regularly, because you might not get all your post!

Fizzi

I received a letter from virgin today saying that they are increasing my monthly bill from £15.30 to £20 per month!!!! All I have is bb and free evening and weekend calls. How do they justify such a price rise??

I had looked at other providers before but there was never enough of a price difference to warrent updating all the sites with passwords tht I use. No so now! I have set up an independent email addy and will start updating all my banking etc and then I am LEAVING!!!!:j

Any good suggestions for new providers? plus net looks promising?

macman

But without getting an ADSL line in you can't leave. VM are the only cable provider (assuming that you are on VM cable, not Virgin National ADSL).
Do an exchange search on https://www.samknows.com for your available LLU providers.