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My area cant get youfibre at present. Virgin have hiked up the price 100% so im leaving. Was offered a decent deal but the service is really poor on the stability front. Looks like a ZEN/BT Fibre 2 flip of the coin. Both have really average downloads for nearly 2024 but its all that is available.
 
JJHJHonthewing said:
My area cant get youfibre at present. Virgin have hiked up the price 100% so im leaving. Was offered a decent deal but the service is really poor on the stability front. Looks like a ZEN/BT Fibre 2 flip of the coin. Both have really average downloads for nearly 2024 but its all that is available.
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As long as you can get decent speeds, most stuff is available online anyway. Have you asked youfibre or any other altnets for a build date?


wyliefan said:
Internet is 2nd to none imo.
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I used to love Virgin in my old gaff as only fast option. I was with Comcast/ntl right from their local launch and one of the first to have the 0.5mb cable modems and it was £40 a month but the advantage it gave you in online games back then va dialup was unreal. Plus £40 a month was wild vs dialup costs even if 0800 internet was starting to take off.

When we moved here I had to say goodbye to 300mb but assumed it would be fairly quick to get virgin again, but it took them from 2018 to 2022 to actually cable our street and it'd not a new build, it's sober hall in Ingleby. They had just never done it. That said by the time they got to doing our street I knew youfibre were on the horizon.

They've been a relevation for me - actual good service, cheap as and it's fast up and down. Virgins upload is capped at 104mbps. Easy to get in touch with and advance notice of any down time and it's always in the night. Would take a lot to get me to switch from them now
 
Left them 6 months ago , best thing i ever did , blackspots for net in house , wanted cash for boosters, price rises, went to Grain Internet , been superb works perfectly , very fast , free boosters if required . Never use Virgin again
 
Just checked my contract with VM, 6 months to go - 5 months + 1 month notice period.

Or 2-3 months and pay just to get rid of them.

Awful kit. Live in a new build property (not a big Victorian type) and the wi fi coverage is abysmal. Can't get anything near decent coverage probably 70% of upstairs, even about 15-20ft from the router. Virgins solution? Offered to sell me some boosters or for an extra £6 month increase my package to 500mB 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Counting down 👍
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
As long as you can get decent speeds, most stuff is available online anyway. Have you asked youfibre or any other altnets for a build date?



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I used to love Virgin in my old gaff as only fast option. I was with Comcast/ntl right from their local launch and one of the first to have the 0.5mb cable modems and it was £40 a month but the advantage it gave you in online games back then va dialup was unreal. Plus £40 a month was wild vs dialup costs even if 0800 internet was starting to take off.

When we moved here I had to say goodbye to 300mb but assumed it would be fairly quick to get virgin again, but it took them from 2018 to 2022 to actually cable our street and it'd not a new build, it's sober hall in Ingleby. They had just never done it. That said by the time they got to doing our street I knew youfibre were on the horizon.

They've been a relevation for me - actual good service, cheap as and it's fast up and down. Virgins upload is capped at 104mbps. Easy to get in touch with and advance notice of any down time and it's always in the night. Would take a lot to get me to switch from them now
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Im on the mailing list with youfibre, sadly not available currently.
 
JJHJHonthewing said:
Im on the mailing list with youfibre, sadly not available currently.
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If you email them your postcode, they can at least tell you if your area is in build plans and if so give you a rough stage & date eg design plan build etc

I was on their mailing list for about a year and I emailed them and they told me it was aiming for November I think, they ended up going live in the August of that year. If they've no plans at all then a long wait but at least you know either way. Otherwise you only find out when it's actually available
 
h_m_boro said:
Just checked my contract with VM, 6 months to go - 5 months + 1 month notice period.

Or 2-3 months and pay just to get rid of them.

Awful kit. Live in a new build property (not a big Victorian type) and the wi fi coverage is abysmal. Can't get anything near decent coverage probably 70% of upstairs, even about 15-20ft from the router. Virgins solution? Offered to sell me some boosters or for an extra £6 month increase my package to 500mB 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Counting down 👍
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Who are you switching to? Lot of providers you don't need to wait to get out of their contract and I think Virgin are putting prices up again so may be able to terminate early from something I was reading yesterday
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Who are you switching to? Lot of providers you don't need to wait to get out of their contract and I think Virgin are putting prices up again so may be able to terminate early from something I was reading yesterday
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Hopefully Sky - I missed the early termination "deal" last year as Sky wasn't available - but if they offer this again I'm snapping their hands off.

Cheers, I'll keep my eye out for the increase news 👍
 
MrMacca said:
I'm on 1gig Internet, every film and sport channel with a box in the front room and a 360 box in the bedroom. I pay £77.
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I've just spent the best part of two days and one extra phonecall renegotiating similar.

I thought I'd got it all down to £70 but they didn't add TNT Sports despite me asking for it specifically and getting confirmation. I've had to ring to add it and need to pay £80 but can get a discount on my Netflix apparently so I'll look into that.

The process is ridiculous though. I always just make reference to the new user price for the top package and then ask for something similar. Being polite seems to work wonders. It's just a massive chore that then gets repeated with the car insurance, home insurance etc.

My initial renewal quote was £160 so it's half that. I'm also saving £30 a month 'cos the previous Volt package had a mandatory O2 mobile attached.
 
Up here in Northumberland Virgin have just laid cables for us. Currently only option for full fibre but had that much bother with them when we lived in the Boro that we are sticking with our 50 meg Sky!
 
sherlock1969 said:
Openreach I’d guess.
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Emmersons_BrazillianDong said:
Whose cables are You fibre and other fast providers using? Is it their own?
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Nope - they are using some of open reaches ducts to pull cables through, same as virgin are - they've got their own network independent of Openreach which is how they can do 8gbps connections



more virgin fuckery:

www.ispreview.co.uk

Virgin Media O2 Significantly Downgrades Ultimate Volt Bundle

Some of Virgin Media and O2's UK broadband and mobile customers have, in recent weeks, reported having noticed a few changes to the combined operator's "Volt
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I was paying 46 for Gig1, then my 18 month discount ended and it went up to 62. About an hour after i had noticed t had gone up (whilst looking at my bank account), someone from Youfibre knocked on the door...

Now i'm on Gigabit FTTP, 1 Gig upload and download for 29.99 per month for 2 years. no mid contract price rises and the first 3 months for a quid a month.

Can't fault it really!
 
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