Virgin Media price hike letter today - who else got one?

c-m

Lexxx wrote: »

Yes i am on 2mb broadband deal. No real complaints, only the £4 increase they now want me to pay....debating whether to let virgin go & just get a dongle

Nah you probably don't want a dongle due to the high latency usually associated with 3G and HSDPA
We are probably talking around an average of 20ms for your current connection vs about 100ms for the dongle, in more simplistic terms it means your computer will take longer to do something once you click on a link

c-m

Lexxx wrote: »

Yes i am on 2mb broadband deal. No real complaints, only the £4 increase they now want me to pay....debating whether to let virgin go & just get a dongle

Nah you probably don't want a dongle due to the high latency usually associated with 3G and HSDPA
We are probably talking around an average of 20ms for your current connection vs about 100ms for the dongle, in more simplistic terms it means your computer will take longer to do something once you click on a link

Lexxx

c-m wrote: »

Nah you probably don't want a dongle due to the high latency usually associated with 3G and HSDPA
We are probably talking around an average of 20ms for your current connection vs about 100ms for the dongle, in more simplistic terms it means your computer will take longer to do something once you click on a link

:rotfl:everything in red might aswell have been in swahili.....thank you for writing it in plain english:T

Ratty43

Mines gone up by £2.60 a month. It has more than likely gone up to pay for this so called free double broadband speed

kajstring24

peter999 wrote: »

What is in your package ?

Broadband (M) is increasing by £1.50/month.

Line Rental & Talk Unlimited are not increasing in price.

peter999

Large BB and free weekend and evenings. I'm a national customer.

buglawton

A dongle is perfectly acceptable for web pages I find. Gamers won't be happy I guess.

3 launched it's Web Cube recently to give you 3 internet at home via WiFi, but it sill looks like a £15 per month minimum spend:
http://www.stuff.tv/news/web/news-nugget/three-launches-3g-web-cube-for-home-wi-fi

Ratty43

I'm on M broadband and pretty sure my speed should be much highter than this
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1827612509.png

victor2

It probably should. This is mine:
http://speedtest.net/result/1827626628.png

That's with their Superhub and a wireless N class adapter in my computer. Are you connected direct to their modem/router and have nothing else running?

Ratty43

victor2 wrote: »

It probably should. This is mine:
http://speedtest.net/result/1827626628.png

That's with their Superhub and a wireless N class adapter in my computer. Are you connected direct to their modem/router and have nothing else running?

I a wireless router connected to my modem. Which is the original modem I had with telewest

spud17

Ratty43 wrote: »

I a wireless router connected to my modem. Which is the original modem I had with telewest

That's your problem, depending on how old it actually is, they were, IIRC, only good for about 4mbps.