Virgin Broadband Plan One that I'm on at the moment seems to be overpriced 
at £24.99 p/m... seems to me I should change to the £17.99 one "Unlimited 
Broadband" and get the same awful service for less p/m...

Up to 8 Mbps?

Unlimited downloads
(Acceptable use policy applies)?
Free PC security

Am I missing something obvious here?

Les

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Les Hemmings  a.a #2251 SA

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> Virgin Broadband Plan One that I'm on at the moment seems to be overpriced 
> at £24.99 p/m... seems to me I should change to the £17.99 one "Unlimited 
> Broadband" and get the same awful service for less p/m...
>
> Up to 8 Mbps?
>
> Unlimited downloads
> (Acceptable use policy applies)?
> Free PC security
>
> Am I missing something obvious here?
>
> Les

The only possible downside I can see Les is that they will probably insist 
on locking you into a new 12 month contract.  Other than that, I can't see 
you'd be any worse off, just saving money.  I'm on the £17.99 per month deal 
but stayed with the 2Mbit service, since I am some way from the exchange and 
on very old BT lines I can't hope to get higher speeds.  Like most peoples' 
experience, it's fine for most of the day but slows down a lot in the 
evenings when everyone is home trying to get on.

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Dave (Sgt. Pepper) wrote:
>
> The only possible downside I can see Les is that they will probably
> insist on locking you into a new 12 month contract.  Other than that,
> I can't see you'd be any worse off, just saving money.  I'm on the
> £17.99 per month deal but stayed with the 2Mbit service, since I am
> some way from the exchange and on very old BT lines I can't hope to
> get higher speeds.  Like most peoples' experience, it's fine for most
> of the day but slows down a lot in the evenings when everyone is home
> trying to get on.

Made the move to Broadband Plan Two. Cheaper per month and a free modem / 
filters to go up on ebay. We have too much "history" attached to our email 
address to change isp so i guess we're in for the long haul, hoping they 
sort out more bandwidth for the new rush of poor saps who fell for the VM 
hype.

This connection used to really fly! Been on Virgin since 1997 and never had 
a problem until recently...

Fingers crossed.

Les

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Les Hemmings  a.a #2251 SA

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From: "Les Hemmings

> We have too much "history" attached to our email address to change isp so 
> i guess we're in for the long haul, hoping they sort out more bandwidth 
> for the new rush of poor saps who fell for the VM hype.
>

Pity you can't have email addy portability, in the same way that you have 
phone number portability. Perhaps it can be done, but would require an Act 
of Parliament or summat. :-(

BD

On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:42:15 +0000, Bertie Doe wrote:

> Pity you can't have email addy portability, in the same way that you have 

You are aware that you're not required to use the email address supplied
by your ISP, I trust?

For example, my normal email addy has nothing to do with my ISP. 

The address used for usenet is linked to my ISP, however.  99% of
messages to that address are SPAM, so just get deleted on the server,
without downloading or reading them..

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