On 20/08/16 03:00, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:55:32 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

I have to say myself that I've had nothing but good service from Virgin
media. They come when they say they will and even rewire whole sections
of a street to get the line back up again.
its a little dearer than bt, but in this world i think you get what you
pay
for. Companies who are always having offers to get people on their
system obviously compromise on something. People on the ground cost
money as faults cannot be predicted and hence they can be busy one
minute and not the next.
Brian

My experience of Virgin Media has been pretty good right through from
the days when it was NTL. Outages, unlike those on poor man's broadband,
aka ADSL,

Depends where you live :-)

Our local cable network, which was originally Videotron (Harrow, NW
London), wasn't designed for data, so here equally as "poor man" as BT
repurposing POTS.

Seems Virgin don't look after customers here, cabinets lie open to the
wind / rain, discarded takeaways and vandals, torn strands of coax lie
on pavements. I'm feel like taking a walk and snapping pictures of their
crippled cabinets.

Many here migrate away to Sky claiming cable overcharging and
reliability issues, so that kind of kills Virgin spending money
overhauling it.

I've got friends elsewhere on Virgin cable. Their broadband is solid,
but not here. My advice to anyone considering cable is to ask their
neighbours first!

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Adrian C