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RE: First Internet Provider

akawho — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:33:35 GMT

hello all

iam with you on that one iam with them now virginmedia but when it was ntlworld i never had a problem with them was paying for 4meg and getting 4 meg but now its virginmedia iam getting 1meg up to 1.5 meg .iv rang them ha dont go there .

now i do a speed test every day so when i ring them again ( v.soon ) i can tell them but i dont think it will do a lot of good

akawho

RE: First Internet Provider

broonie11 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:21:18 GMT

VIRGIN BROADBAND IS A JOKE, AND SO IS THERE CUSTOMER SERVICE! I MOVED OUT OF MY HOUSE, CANCELED THE BROADBAND, RE DIRECTED MY MAIL AND 6 MONTHS LATER I RECEIVED A LETTER AT MY NEW HOUSE FROM A CREDIT AGENCY DEMANDING £71, ABSOLUTE DISGRACE! THEY WERENT MUCH HELP EITHER WHEN I PHONED THEM, CHARGED ME ANOTHER £17.99 TO CANCEL, EVEN ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW I HAD NOT USED IT IN 6 MONTHS, SEEMS TOUGH THAT I NEVER CANCELED, MAYBE IM GOING MAD AND MAKING UP THINGS!! IDIOTS!

STAY WELL CLEAR OF VIRGIN!!!!

RE: First Internet Provider

Shadow1 — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:06:21 GMT

I guess. it still sounds like a lot. It seems like someone should have it for a few pounds.

RE: First Internet Provider

Stitch — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:35:30 GMT

I think a lot of it could be infrastructure. I have a friend in the US who tells me that AOL still has a lot of dial-up customers and they pay twice as much for dial-up as a lot of people pay for Broadband.

You would think with prices coming down that dial-up prices would get less expensive. Especially considering they still get charges for the phone lines themselves as well.

RE: First Internet Provider

raven — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:13:15 GMT

Yes dial-up prices do not make much sense. They can often be more expensive than broadband. Not sure why anyone would go with dial-up over broadband except for the reasons mentioned above.

RE: First Internet Provider

Shadow1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:11:45 GMT

£36.00 from BT for dialup? Are you sure you have that correct as that seems very expensive. Surely they have a cheaper alternative as there broadband isnt that much.
Is it because dial up isnt used as much these days?

RE: First Internet Provider

Stitch — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:49:22 GMT

Actually there are alot of people that still have to cope with a dial up connection. People that live on new housing estates or live in deserted areas that cant get dial up have to settle with the 56k.

There are still alot of providers for 56k and the prices seem to be more expensive these days:

AOL: £15.99

BoltBlue: 5.99

BT: 36.00

these are all different deals and there prices range alot i just picked there lowest to show you some examples.

RE: First Internet Provider

blueangel — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:33:37 GMT

Oh wow yes i rememeber trying to download things on a phone line internet connection. Yes im very pleases we have moved on from those times.

Trying to upload things then to your websites must of taken the webmasters along time, and we think we have it hard...

First Internet Provider

raven — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:27:12 GMT

who was your first internet supplier?

I remember having the BT 56 k modem for a long time. I remember when we first had it thinking wow this is so fast, now i see 20 mb connections and think wow things have changed.

Who was your first provider and was it 56k?