Daughter (22year old and mates) about to move to inner Liverpool for work in early September three three of her mates ( can't be arsed with HBAHTS so pic below)

 

So she wants best broadband deal (no phone needed) and I have been lumbered with finding it.  Now it looks to be a two way thing between BT and Virgin. Any thoughts? Up here in Rossendale anyone other than BT is shit so have no experience of other providers. They obviously have phones, iPads and laptops and want it quick (phnarr phnarr). Any pro and cons?

 

 

Edited August 18, 20169 yr by bgoefc

Leave and then they'll send you a 50pc off your deal leaflet every other week for 6 months (and counting)

Virgin must send me stuff once a fortnight. We don't have cable down here the retards!

I've had sky Internet 'free' since we left (line rental only).

 

Going to Virgin Internet. Sky are shit.

Leave and then they'll send you a 50pc off your deal leaflet every other week for 6 months (and counting)

 

This is what they did for Garrp when he cancelled, he's since signed back up for the full package

Edited September 30, 20169 yr by Sweep

. I will stick my my zgemma 'gift' for now, £40 for the year...

 

Do you need a satellite dish for that?

Do you need a satellite dish for that?

 

Do you need a satellite dish for that?

 

Yes or No. You can get a box for either sat or cable or one that does both.

Edited September 30, 20169 yr by C86

They've now offers us fifty percent off TV for a year. Shitstorm coming.

Turns out Virgin can take the order, take the money from us.... and then even turn up to install and ONLY THEN tell us there's no Fibre in the area.

What fuckers! Meant to be moving into the new office next Wednesday. Cannot run a business off 4G on our phones!! FFS!!!!

High and dry. Can see us ending up with dog slow BT broadband again!!!!

 

they did that to me as well! engineers turned up to install and spent the best part of an hour trying to find the point outside! since found out that there are no virgin cables on our side of the road! i wouldn't mind but they keep ringing to get us to have virgin! thick as shite

Its on Birchwood. Cannot believe neither BT nor Virgin have Fibre in the building we are moving into. Been told they have plans - but 5-6 months down the line. Which means we'll have to make do with something shite for 12 months (min contract). No more streaming the football and cricket in the office now!

Now TV do a no contract service give them 30 days notice and you're free to go elsewhere

Turns out Virgin can take the order, take the money from us.... and then even turn up to install and ONLY THEN tell us there's no Fibre in the area.

What fuckers! Meant to be moving into the new office next Wednesday. Cannot run a business off 4G on our phones!! FFS!!!!

High and dry. Can see us ending up with dog slow BT broadband again!!!!

4g can be faster than some wired internet

 

shove a sim card in summat like this and youre away

 

or in this if you want or need it to be battery powered and portable

 

might need a zillion megabytes a month for $GoldenEgg type simcard deal to run it if youve got like 9 laptops on the go all connected to the one sim in the modem , but theres no reason (other than wack signal or some other bullshit) it shouldnt work.

 

ymmv

Edited October 6, 20169 yr by e2e4

4g can be faster than some wired internet

 

shove a sim card in summat like this and youre away

 

or in this if you want or need it to be battery powered and portable

 

might need a zillion megabytes a month for $GoldenEgg type simcard deal to run it if youve got like 9 laptops on the go all connected to the one sim in the modem , but theres no reason (other than wack signal or some other bullshit) it shouldnt work.

 

ymmv

 

Probably not a bad idea.

 

When I'm away from home, I use an Android phone with a 3 sim card : all you can eat data for £23/month and the speed is pretty quick if you're in a decent signal area, just tether your devices to it, using the phone as a router.

Probably not a bad idea.

 

When I'm away from home, I use an Android phone with a 3 sim card : all you can eat data for £23/month and the speed is pretty quick if you're in a decent signal area, just tether your devices to it, using the phone as a router.

 

 

I do this but 3 have clamped down on tethering, I'm in Spain again soon so gonna try some VPN's.

I do this but 3 have clamped down on tethering, I'm in Spain again soon so gonna try some VPN's.

 

Using 3 on Android?

Right - a month or so into Virgin Broadband. It's fast as fuck but the range is diabolical. I live in a 2 up 2 down terrace house - the router is in the front room but my laptop can't pick up a signal when I'm in the bedroom directly above it. It even sometimes struggles when I'm in the kitchen.

 

Lots of advice on the virgin website about avoiding reflective surfaces and all that bollocks. Does placement really make that much of a difference in a house our size? Surely I should reasonably expect coverage upstairs?

you used to be able to switch it to modem only mode (the blue VM sign light goes purple) and rig a second access point of a different brand (iirc the superhub or whatever are netgear) to one of the lan ports (iirc niumber 1 or maybe 4 do the pass-thru, i forget which). but they may have changed this.

 

other than that a range extender might work (or maybe a access point with range extender settings)

 

you can get range extenders that .look like powerline plugs, so that theyre out the way.

 

And if the VM modem/router has two bands, the 5ghz band is said to have harder trouble getting through walls and that. 

 

only the newest hub combines the 'network name' to run off both bands. and uses auto-whatever to pick the best way.

 

the older ones transmitted two eg, virginmedia24 , virginmedia5. and you could pick which one to connect to. i dont know if the settings can be changed to work like this on the newer modem (version3), but it may help if it can be set up that old way. then its upto you on which one to connect to.

Edited October 6, 20169 yr by e2e4

you used to be able to switch it to modem only mode (the blue VM sign light goes purple) and rig a second access point of a different brand (iirc the superhub or whatever are netgear) to one of the lan ports (iirc niumber 1 or maybe 4 do the pass-thru, i forget which). but they may have changed this.

 

other than that a range extender might work (or maybe a access point with range extender settings)

 

you can get range extenders that .look like powerline plugs, so that theyre out the way.

 

And if the VM modem/router has two bands, the 5ghz band is said to have harder trouble getting through walls and that.

 

only the newest hub combines the 'network name' to run off both bands. and uses auto-whatever to pick the best way.

 

the older ones transmitted two eg, virginmedia24 , virginmedia5. and you could pick which one to connect to. i dont know if the settings can be changed to work like this on the newer modem (version3), but it may help if it can be set up that old way. then its upto you on which one to connect to.

are you a computer?

Using 3 on Android?

yes

Right - a month or so into Virgin Broadband. It's fast as fuck but the range is diabolical. I live in a 2 up 2 down terrace house - the router is in the front room but my laptop can't pick up a signal when I'm in the bedroom directly above it. It even sometimes struggles when I'm in the kitchen.

 

Lots of advice on the virgin website about avoiding reflective surfaces and all that bollocks. Does placement really make that much of a difference in a house our size? Surely I should reasonably expect coverage upstairs?

 

 

router is in a front bedroom

 

i wanted coverage in the garden

 

virgin sell an extender but they told me to buy one off amazon

 

plugged it in to a power socket in the conservatory and all is good

 

it works but does need rebooting every week or so

 

dunno why

router is in a front bedroom

 

i wanted coverage in the garden

 

virgin sell an extender but they told me to buy one off amazon

 

plugged it in to a power socket in the conservatory and all is good

 

it works but does need rebooting every week or so

 

dunno why

That's sounds like the simpler of the two options :-)

 

Do you remember how much it set you back?

more than it costs now

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00NIUHAG6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

yes

 

tha's geet mail

are you a computer?

 

i had to mend someones virgin broadband once and am just remembering what i did to sort it.

 

were ages ago, so a lot might not be relevant now.

 

in my case turning the router part off and adding an wifi access point worked. but it were the first superhub. the setting is still there on the newest one according to the vm help pages, probably for this very problem. its called "modem only mode" in the settings, but theres probably more to do to set it up.

 

heres the link and this one , but they might not click..

 

i suspect the answer to the OP is somewhere along these lines. theres loads of posts about lack of a strong wifi signal on their forum.

Edited October 6, 20169 yr by e2e4

more than it costs now

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00NIUHAG6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thank you for the tip! I'll let you know how I get on.....

I'm starting to think this coverage issue might be my laptop rather than the broadband signal.

 

My phone and printer and other devices can pick up the signal anywhere in the house. My laptop seems to struggle even when it's in the same room now.

 

Wasn't having this problem a month ago on Sky Broadband. Has anybody got any idea what the issue might be?

 

Laptop is about 4 years old - Dell - decent spec.

I'm starting to think this coverage issue might be my laptop rather than the broadband signal.

My phone and printer and other devices can pick up the signal anywhere in the house. My laptop seems to struggle even when it's in the same room now.

Wasn't having this problem a month ago on Sky Broadband. Has anybody got any idea what the issue might be?

Laptop is about 4 years old - Dell - decent spec.

My ee stuff has two signals to chose from. One has better range the other better quality/less interference. Think this is mentioned above. Perhaps your virgin also has two and you need to pick the best. Most of our appliances only find one anyhow, but the lads mobile offers the choice. Probably total bollocks though.

Other option is to get one of these adapters that sends the signal round the ring main and you can just plug your laptop into a nearby plug socket using an Ethernet cable

It could be that your laptop is picking up the 5Ghz signal rather than the 2.4Ghz one. The range on 5 is wank compared to 2.4, you could try disabling 5Ghz on the router to see if it improves?

Another option is change the channel the router is using, all freebie routers these days use auto selection, some work ok while others dont so you could try channel 6 or 11 which are usually not used as much.