NTL / UPC / Virgin Media Broadband (2 Viewers)

[pete]

Work on upgrading its broadband network to full fibre will begin in early 2022 and is expected to take three years to complete. Virgin Media said it had already successfully piloted a fibre upgrade of 500 premises, delivering speeds of up to 10Gbps.

Nice... be nicer if it has respectable upload speeds too... Very much first world problems territory I know, but "only" having 50Mbps up on a 1Gbps down connection is a bit unbalanced.

Virgin announces €200m upgrade and 500 new jobs

Liberty Global Irish arm to invest in full fibre and fastest broadband speeds

www.irishtimes.com

 

[ann post]

They've hacked the top off the most rarified tree we have with the promise of a broadband line to follow.

Can't wait.

 

[rettucs]

can't remember what thread we were using last week to talk about BB.

anyway I got a letter from VM today saying they're upping my bill by 2 euro per room (for multiroom TV) from July. Thats the straw that breaks the camel's back. I rang the Eir lad and he's coming around later. Gonna go for the 1MB line and multi-room TV. That will be 75 euro per month for 2 years. I'll likely cancel the TV in due course but want to try it out.

 

[rettucs]

Cancelled.

I was waiting on the TV boxes to come from Eir. 2 shiny brand new AppleTV boxes arrived in the post this morning. Took 5 minutes to set up and everything looks good.

I called VM to cancel and was told I was in a wait queue of 20 mins. Then I looked at the letter they sent about the price change (as per my previous post) and there was a URL where you can cancel online. I logged in and was able to cancel the entire account immediately. This from the people who made you wait hours in the past to get through to their cancellations departments who only worked 5 minutes a month (*may not be true - also may have been UPC rather than VM).

I'll switch us from Three to Eir mobile tomorrow. One thing at a time.

 

[pete]

The tv is grand, possibly even worth it just for the (borrowed) Apple TV box.

 

[rettucs]

I'd get by with just the Irish channels. I had a sports package with VM. Complete rip-off for something I barely watch. I've been planning to get rid of it for the past 3 years. Finally. Did. It.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Currently being promised to be connected by May 2023

lol sure guys

September 2023

 

[Cormcolash]

September 2023

I know of an easy way to get a much quicker connection

 

[pete]

 

[ernesto]

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€90 a month is bananas. A lot of bananas

 

[Anthony]

Our vodafone broadband was €x for 12 months. Recently we went over 12 months and the bill went up. Of course I forgot all about the deal and rang up giving out shite, "we'll go back to virgin" etc. They straight away put us on a special deal price.
I never thought I'd be one of those.

 

[ernesto]

Our vodafone broadband was €x for 12 months. Recently we went over 12 months and the bill went up. Of course I forgot all about the deal and rang up giving out shite, "we'll go back to virgin" etc. They straight away put us on a special deal price.
I never thought I'd be one of those.

I was one of those last yea and the nice lady said 'sorry, sure we'll probably talk to you again in a years time when you can avail of the intro rate again'
FFS

 

[ann post]

I set a reminder in my calendar to contact them a month before and tell them i'm out if they raise the price.

 

[pete]

I'm just amazed we've got 2Gb broadband available since SOME OF US are old enough to have gotten on the internets with a 14.4k modem.

I'm also old enough to have been "online" with a 1200/75 modem hanging off the back of a Commodore 64 in the mid-late 1980s. That 1200bits per second down = .0000012Gb and 75bps up = .000000075Gb