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couplands

Member Since: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Peak District & Cornwall
Posts: 1826

I've just cancelled my Sky TV, Broadband & phone and am swapping to BT Infinity 2.

The Sky TV I just wasnt watching, and even at the basic package + HD was costing £31/month. The broadband was Sky Connect as we couldnt get their own service in our area, and was poor in terms of speed in the evening due to traffic shaping and cost £17/month. Phone was good though, they discount to free the national calls, and I paid £5/month for international as my daughter lives in Switzerland.

BT have just rolled out Ininity to our exchange, so offers (estimiated) 65mb down/20mb up speed, so we'll see.

I may regret it, but I think it's worth a change.

cheers

simon

13th Jun 2012 6:51am

GREENI

Member Since: 22 Aug 2010
Location: staffs
Posts: 10383

I'm on BT too, no problems, as Mrs G works from home and downloads drawings and stuff I don't understand, we go over the limit now and again, but the company pays for it

13th Jun 2012 8:38am

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

the virgins are coming tomorrow to do the install of telephone, TV and broadband ... photos to follow

20th Jun 2012 9:47pm

BigRuss

Member Since: 15 May 2010
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 2785

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

bpman wrote:
the virgins are coming tomorrow to do the install of telephone, TV and broadband ... photos to follow

Same rules apply as Christmas mate!

If you don't go to sleep santa won't come!

Russell
2011MY 110 XS USW Black

20th Jun 2012 9:59pm

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

absolutely loving virgin ... tv - good, phone - good, broadband - i've just seen 42mbps, it's not always that fast but it's never been as slow as bt - yes, i'd recommend it

14th Jul 2012 7:04pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 20578

bpman wrote:
i've just seen 42mbps, it's not always that fast but it's never been as slow as bt

Your lucky I'm currently on 6mbps

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14th Jul 2012 7:07pm

couplands

Member Since: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Peak District & Cornwall
Posts: 1826

Got my BT Infinity installed and getting 70mb/s download and 15mb/s upload, so very pleased.

And no slowdown in the evenings like I did with Sky. Sky was 4mb/s down and 300kb/s up, so a big difference.

Also get BT wifi when I'm out and about, so very useful.

Only problem is that my Freesat Humax box is nowhere as nice to use as the Sky box. Might reconsider the TV side of things....:-/

14th Jul 2012 7:24pm

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

even at busy times, I'm getting a good speed

18th Jul 2012 5:15pm

Zagato
Site Supporter

Member Since: 08 Jan 2011
Location: Billingshurst West Sussex
Posts: 5013

Think we will go Virgin also

18th Jul 2012 5:40pm

ZeDefender

Member Since: 15 Sep 2011
Location: Munich
Posts: 4731

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SW Baltic Blue

Guess what - just outside Munich, a major German city, we can only get 3Mbps max DSL due to the existing wiring

Sometimes it's faster to use cellular

You guys don't know how lucky you are! Tell someone you love them today because life is short.
But shout it at them in German because life is also terrifying and confusing...

18th Jul 2012 5:55pm

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

UPDATE: After good speeds for about 6 weeks, the performance of the virgin fibre optic broadband dropped to way below dial-up modem speeds ... as you can imagine the virgin hell desk was very very apologetic but were frankly hopeless. Some evenings, no broadband as all.

So back to sky TV and copper broadband (until Sky can deliver cable)

10th Dec 2012 5:34pm

ken

Member Since: 18 Aug 2009
Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !!
Posts: 4328

BT Business Fibre

none of this drop out poo when the kids go on line

10th Dec 2012 5:46pm

Landlord

Member Since: 27 Oct 2009
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 582

Just got rid of BT thankfully....

Signed up with Sky for broadband and Phone at the new house, should be connected on the 21/12. Not bothered about the TV, freessat and Apple TV box is fine for us.

As we are in the sticks we were limited to who we could use ! 2007 TD5 90 Hard Top

10th Dec 2012 6:17pm

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

MrsBP got us a blinding deal on a Sky HD 2TB box .. nice & shiney

10th Dec 2012 7:59pm

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