I subscribed to virgin media earlier this year after a bad year with Tiscali,the download speeds were very slow. On a forum i plumped for Virgin rather than Sky because of the fibre optic cable seemed superior over copper. On a speedchecker my download speed has never been below 8Mb .I had problems at first with my tv package, but at least the phone calls to virgin were free! on the whole i think i made a good choice. My bill per month is usually around £31 tv phone and broadband.