I had an email from Virgin Media the other day. Remember how we used to just have razor blades? And then we started to have razors with two blades? They were advertised by an animation showing how the first blade left a bit of stubble and the second blade caught that? And then it turned […]
Entries Tagged as 'Virgin Media'
Inflation madness
December 14th, 2016 · Comments Off on Inflation madness · Technology
Tags: TV·Virgin Media
I would like to tweet about this ‘ere dead parrot
May 21st, 2014 · 2 Comments · Life, Technology
An interesting article on the BBC News site today about using Twitter to complain about things. Amongst other things it says: According to a poll of 2,000 people by the communications agency Fishburn Hedges and Echo Research in April 2012, 36% of people had used a social media platform to contact a big company and […]
Tags: Virgin Media
Still offline
August 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Technology
We are now on our 4th day without broadband and some how I doubt anybody is going to fix it on a sunday or bank holiday. Amazed that in the middle of the breakdown of society in Libya they seem to have a better internet connection than Virgin Media can manage in Sussex.
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Infamy, infamy
August 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on Infamy, infamy · Technology
…They’ve all got it in for me! Now that WordPress seems to be all up and running I have no internet connection. Had a little bit of a row with somebody at Virgin Media this evening and may have vented a bit at the bloke who told me they would get an engineer out on […]
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Scream if you wanna go faster
March 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Scream if you wanna go faster · Technology
Well I did it didn’t I?  I had every intention of getting my broadband upgraded from 20MB to 30MB but I just couldn’t resist going the extra little bit and getting it whacked up to 50MB. What can I say? It was payday this week so I was feeling artificially flush, and its only an […]
Tags: Broadband·Virgin Media
Virgin Tivo
February 19th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Technology
I found out about two new things from Virgin Media today. The first was by accident: a lot of people at work are having trouble connecting their company laptops through our encrypted VPN if they have Virgin broadband and I was looking for possible reasons for this. While doing this I noticed that their XL […]
Tags: Gadgets·TV·Virgin Media
Broadband speeds
September 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Life, Technology
I do have some sympathy with Virgin Media about the advertising of broadband speeds.  With their fibre optic network they can deliver much higher bandwidth to homes and do it so that end users will actually get that speed – and then companies providing broadband across ADSL come along and advertise services that, once contention […]
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That’s nearly 90!
July 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Technology
Personally I don’t (currently) have a problem with my broadband at home and I’m quite happy with it so I don’t have an axe to grind here… but… I did find this interview quite amusing. I don’t know what job Mr. Ahmad does for Virgin Media but I suspect and hope it is on the […]
Tags: Broadband·Maths·Virgin Media
More temptation
June 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on More temptation · Technology
I got a letter from Virgin Media yesterday, telling me that 50Mb broadband is now available here…  very tempting. That is starting to get respectable – but still there is the frustration that the upstream speed is only 1.5Mb. (As somebody who remembers feeling dizzy when v.32bis came out I feel slightly odd saying “only […]
Tags: Internet·Virgin Media
Baby got back
April 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Baby got back · Life, Technology
Virgin managed to restore our broadband remotely this afternoon: no need to wait for an engineer with a new modem to turn up on Wednesday. Good news indeed, because now I won’t have the rest of the family asking every ten minutes. They have all been suffering from World of Warfare withdrawal.
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