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.
Entries Tagged as 'Virgin Media'
Infamy, infamy
August 25th, 2011 · No Comments · 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 [...]
Tags: Virgin Media
Scream if you wanna go faster
March 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · 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 · No Comments · 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 · No Comments · 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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Off air
April 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Technology
If anybody has been sending me e-mails and expecting a reply… forget about it. We have now been without internet access at home for 5 days, and do not expect to get it back for another couple of days.  When it does come back it is going to take quite a while to go through [...]
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Frustration
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Technology
I am starting to see the appeal of this whole concept of cloud computing.  On Saturday I bought a replacement PC. The old one is one that I bought a couple of years ago when the motherboard of the previous computer blew up, and it was basically the cheapest base unit I could get in [...]
Tags: Computing·Gadgets·Internet·Virgin Media
