Virgin to double their broadband speed

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.c...d-speed?newsfeed=true

Will this make Virgin Britain's best broadband provider?

[rowanwitch]

Already is in my book Had Sky, had BT admittedly haven't tried plusnet but the Yorkshire thing is a bit of a put off...Virgin is already fast i get unlimited downloads and they fix problems really quickly

[craft1948]

"the Yorkshire thing is a bit of a put off"......................thanks rowan.

[gingejbee]

Best? No. Fastest? Yes.

[cazzz1975]

I have no choice but to have virgin where I live, I am quite happy with the service though

[Ankou]

i ditched sky for virgin. all good for me.

[daffy654]

I'm already on the 100mbps package with Virgin, I average between 97mbps and 109mbps. They don't throttle the connection even if you download a lot with this package, I upgraded from the 20mbps one because they were constantly limiting my speed (daily) and with 3 online gamers in the house it made it unusable.

[hc4361]

I've been with them since the early days of Telewest, when I contracted for a speed of 256. Since then it has doubled regularly and now I am on 10gb for no extra money. Soon it will be 20gb.

No throttling here - and I do monitor it closely.

[rov1100]

I wish the higher rate of speed on my computer showed in the response times. But logging onto AB it sometimes seems a dead loss and results in hitting the keys a number of times in order to wake it up.

[jno]

we used to have Virgin; it was fine until they 'upgraded' their service, and after that it froze at least once a day. Our computer repairman, who lives over the road, said he'd just switched to Sky for the same reason. We did so too and have been fine ever since.

Touch wood.

[sunny-dave]

As usual it is "unto those that have, more will be offered" - a better use of money would be to extend the fibre networks as quickly as possible to cover the current 'not-spots', where even a 1mbps connection is a dream.

A policy of "no-one gets more than 20mbps until everyone gets 5mbps" would be more equitable - as would spending some decent money on the ISP's back-haul, so that the whole interweb doesn't grind to a halt everytime all the pirates start streaming their 'free football'.

< rant over > :+()

[Craftypig]

we have virgin broadband with no problems, just trying to convince the other half that we should get our TV with them too...

[boomster]

I don't really know, but I sincerely hope so because I use Virgin, lol.