It's Virgin
This is the company that promises unlimited downloads, and then cripples your stream if you exceed their limit - but still claim that as they don't stop your downloads their limits don't count as limits
Posts by gb030104
15 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2010
Virgin Media spanked by ad watchdog over 'in your neighbourhood' fibs
WW II U-boat attacks prompt new US response
ASA says 'unlimited' broadband can have 'moderate' limits on it
Razzies set to torpedo Rihanna's Battleship
How one bad algorithm cost traders $440m
Lords blast UK.gov's fixation on broadband speed over reach
Tuesday 31st July 2012 08:31 GMT 
The power that be concentrate on the 'fastest' speed to 2 main reasons, in my opinion. First it's a nice headline, "The UK now has the fastest broadband in Europe, with speeds upto 1GB" sounds really good. The fact that you can only get 1Gb if you live in a 200 square metre part of London can be kept quiet.
Second, it's easier to fudge: Broadband can move from 'upto 8mb' (average speed 2.51 mb) to 'upto 16mb' (average speed 2.53 mb) quite cheaply and easily, with OFCOM's blessing as well
Samsung shows 'designed for humans' handset
Friday 4th May 2012 08:52 GMT
Re: Poor build quality is a Samsun tradition
Are you in the UK? If so the Sale of Goods act is your friend for this. The item must be fit for purpose - so if you buy a touchscreen 'phone on a 2 year contract it must work properly, with reasonable care on your part, for at least those 2 years (I also believe that it is also up to the manufacturer to prove you didn't take that reasonable care).
Soup up your home network
Friday 13th April 2012 09:24 GMT
Re: Just a shame...
For faster speeds on Virgin's notwork, you need to have the new 'super modem' which has a built in router - much like the standard ADSL type.
I think the BigYin's problem is that you have to have their modem/router, even if you just use it as a passthrough for a decent router - hence the comment about 2 devices.
I found my Virgin supplied router to be quite poor and have a separate DSL router plugged into it, to run my network.
Barclays axes 422 UK IT staff
SEC slaps inside trader with record $93m fine
Thursday 10th November 2011 11:19 GMT 
Not a big fine really
$92.8 fine and a total cost of $156.6 might be a lot to us (OK it's fantastically huge for us), but to him it's 9.3 and 15.6 % of his total wealth respectively. (And that's if he only has $1B exactly and not more)
Another way of looking at it is they've left him at least $844 million to survive on. Somehow I think he'll manage.
The only real penalty here is the 11 years (reduced for overcrowding) in the Florida country club
Personally I think the fine should have been a percentage of his wealth, and a large percentage at that
Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5
Life-size Lego assault rifle really works
My Droid EXPLODED mid phone call, says Texan
Monday 6th December 2010 14:28 GMT 
Interesting sequence of events
His 'phone "explodes", so the first thing he does is rush to his wife's work so she can take pictures. Once they have been taken someone calls 911 to report the emergency incident that is a cut on his ear. If it was so important the he needed an ambulance (why else 'phone 911?) why didn't he drive himself to the ER instead of his wife's school.
The cynic in me feels that the word 'compensation' was involved in the thought process long before the word 'ow'.
Virgin demands ISPs end broadband speed 'con'
Thursday 18th November 2010 10:40 GMT
The hypocrisy of it
Maybe Virgin should stop massaging the truth, if they want some credibility with this.
To quote from their http://www.stopthebroadbandcon.org/ site: "You should be getting what you pay for"
Yet, their "traffic Shaping" means I now get about 5Mb connection in the evenings, whilst paying for 50Mb.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
