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Virgin Media 10Mb Broadband
- price:
- £5.00 1st 3 mths then £12.50
- speed:
- 10Mbs
- monthly cap:
- unlimited
- getting started:
- wireless modem included
- contract length:
- 12 months
- features:
- No download limits
- PCguard** - online protection for your PC
- Your own email account (with up to 15 addresses)
- Space online to create your own web site
- Help when you need it, online and on the phone
Virgin Media's basic deal is now a really fast 10Mb download speed. Unlimited download allowance (fair use applies) and a wireless moden router is included. When taken with a Virgin phone line at £11.99 a month 10Mb broadband is £5.00 for 3 months and then £12.50. Available without a phone line at £15.00 mth.
Reviews for Virgin Media
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50Mb Broadband service
5 star rating
Been with Virgin since they were Telewest 15 or so years. Moved from 20Mb to 50Mb about 6 months ago. Superb speeds. Upgraded router to Netgear Wireless-N, now awaiting delivery of Gigabit router to go Gigabit throughout. Regularly achieving > 40Mb. Downloads a doddle. Streaming via 100Mb wired connection (soon to be Gigabet) to/from PS3 and from Wii effortlessly. Customer service faultless. The nearest thing to South Korea's service I'm gonna get at the moment - at least until they roll out 100Mb+ !
glynbo: Grays Thurrock, Essex (08 September 2010)
Not good at all
1 star rating
Im on the 50mb package and the download speeds are slower than when I was only on their 10mb package. I am lucky to get over 1mb no mind 40mb, not happy at all
Steven: Nottingham (04 September 2010)
Lovely and Fast
4 star rating
Virgin have recently updated my broadband to 10Mb and it really is quick, much better than the previous 2Mb I was getting. The good thing about cable is the speed does not decrease as you get further from the exchange. Speedtest.net is giving me a consistent 9.73Mb.
Peter T: Reading (17 April 2010)
Fast and great service
5 star rating
My 10mb connection regularly tests at 9.6mb on download so no issues at all with speed. Streaming media is great. Not had an outage (except for a supplied faulty modem) and that problem was rectified promptly. Highly recommended.
Mike Hind: Mirfield (15 April 2010)
Not worth a single penny
2 star rating
Like most students in Plymouth we went with Virgin and like most other students, we regretted it within a month of signing up!
It is near impossible to watch BBC iPlayer, it took me over an hour to do a 16mb update of my antivirus, and the time when the internet is fastest is usually around 3am!
We opted for the 50mb package and we're lucky if we get anything near 2mb. We did a couple of speed checks online and they were coming up as though we were using dial up!!!
The worst part is that they told us it would be fixed by the end of February - that was in November, and it's still utter shit to this day.
Would I recommended Virgin Media? Never! (unless you do what one person did and say that he would only pay for when he had good service - at the moment he's got a £50 credit note as they haven't had to pay a penny for months!)
I actually miss having AOL dial-up
DB: Plymouth (28 February 2010)
Don't Make the Same Mistake I Made
1 star rating
Don't use this company, they charge you for things they give to you for free, cannot resolve any matters unless in writting with the headoffice, speed is poor, service is poor, as above i never thought I would say this, but AOL is better, which makes virgin media total wank.
Phil: K Town - UK (27 January 2010)
Slow speed
1 star rating
I've recently switched from a BT 2mb connection to a 20mb virgin media connection and have been very dissapointed, I'm lucky to get 200kb/s download speed and get capped to below 100kb/s after about 5 mins of downloading anything. It takes the mick that I'm dishing out £30 a month and am getting slower speeds than i was with a 2mb connection, sort it out Virgin.
anonymous: Stafford (27 January 2010)
Virgin 20MB Slower Than Dial-Up
1 star rating
Had Virgin in a month - VIP Package - and the broadband is useless - that's 20MB of pure kack. While writing this, I'm getting an average download speed of 27.4KB/Sec! My dial-up connection 10 years ago was quicker than that! They've had me reset ALL the computers in the whole house, stop/start/unplug/turn off/turn on modem repeatedly, download overnight - at that speed you'd be up all night. I can pick up an UNSECURED network and get 800+ KB/Sec...So what's Virgin's problem ...USELESS...USELESS...USELESS...You'd get more help from smashing your head with a brick ...USELESS...USELESS...Oh, their only getting a 1 star rating because I can't post this without it! They should have an option for MINUS STARS. I'll repeat: SLOWER DOWNLOAD SPEED THAN DIAL-UP AND THAY DO NOTHING ABOUT IT!
fedfingup: london (14 October 2009)
50 Mb you have to be kidding
1 star rating
What a pile of crap. 50Mb my aunt fanny. Slow as hell. Some days I get as much as 7mb. Other days I 1mb. Web pages are slow to load. Some file downloads are quick but getting to the web page to click on the link to download is problematic. I am guessing they are port throttling.
Horrible arrogant 50Mb staff and customer service teams are blinkered and out of touch with the customer. Billing systems are out of sync with the payments. I got a £10 fine for non payment when I looked online. I got the bill 5 days later. Try sending me the amount. Good job I looked online. Dont go for paperless billing, you cant trust them to do the job.
Stuart Evans: West Midlands (17 September 2009)
fast as hell
5 star rating
fast as hell, i pay for 20mb and get 20mb
with bt i paid for 8mb and lucky if i got 2mb..
well done virgin
can't wait for my 50mb connection! :)
paul: salford - near manchester (11 August 2009)