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Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: tel on January 17, 2012, 09:08:10 AM
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Got an email from Virgin -
Hello Tel
Good news - we're giving you even faster broadband, for less.
You're already getting the UK's fastest widely available broadband, and starting this summer we'll be starting the roll-out to boost your speeds from up to 100Mb to up to 120Mb. We'll also be lowering the price of your broadband package in April to match the price of our 50Mb Broadband XXL packages.
These are nice extras we do to make you smile. We call them Virgin Media tickles, and we only give them to people we know and like - our customers.
Our ongoing commitment to offering the UK's fastest broadband.
Virgin Media offers the fastest broadband speeds in the UK*, as proven by Ofcom for three years in a row. And we're committed to keeping it this way. Which is why we're upgrading our award winning fibre optic network over the next 18 months.
As part of this upgrade, you may have seen we'll be doubling many of our customers' broadband speeds. But, because you already get our fastest broadband, we're upgrading you to up to 120Mb and giving you a discount instead.
So whether you love streaming HD movies, ruling the gaming world or downloading tunes in super quick time - you'll soon be able to do it even faster and for less.
You don't have to lift a finger.
The 120Mb upgrade kick off in the summer and will have a slightly different roll-out schedule to our other work. We'll let you know nearer the time when to expect your broadband speed boost. In the meantime, see what you can do with faster speeds at virginmedia.com/evenfaster.
We'll be in touch in a few weeks with more details about your price reduction, so there's no need to call us, or do a thing – except keep enjoying what is already the UK's fastest broadband.
Kind regards,
Shortly afterwards got this -
Hello there,
Oops! That last email, 100Mb Broadband Announcement, was sent in error.
Please ignore this, and rest assured current Virgin Media Cable Broadband customers will be receiving some good news about their broadband in the next 2 weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
The Virgin Media team
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100M Drool:
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Virgin Drool:
Can't get it here ~ No Cable Banghead
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100M Drool:
Your shite would be posted even quicker BM noooo:
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I am becoming BT infinitisied scared2:
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Well ain't you the lucky one .... we are told it will be years before such luxuries reach us.
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100M Drool:
Your shite would be posted even quicker BM noooo:
It would get there before I posted it even.... probably.... rubschin:
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100M Drool:
Your shite would be posted even quicker BM noooo:
It would get there before I posted it even.... probably.... rubschin:
A whole new definition of "Predictive Text" whistle:
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100M Drool:
Your shite would be posted even quicker BM noooo:
It would get there before I posted it even.... probably.... rubschin:
A whole new definition of "Predictive Text" whistle:
Predictive shite? lol:
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Virgin Drool:
Can't get it here ~ No Cable Banghead
You don't know when you are well off.
I bet you even have mains drainage and gas.
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Virgin Drool:
Can't get it here ~ No Cable Banghead
You don't know when you are well off.
I bet you even have mains drainage and gas.
Unlike us eh Darwin...? happy100
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Virgin Drool:
Can't get it here ~ No Cable Banghead
You don't know when you are well off.
I bet you even have mains drainage and gas.
Unlike us eh Darwin...? happy100
Quite so.
We still mark March 15th as 'Electricity Day' to celebrate its arrival.
It was a great year of progress, 2007. cloud9:
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Virgin Drool:
Can't get it here ~ No Cable Banghead
You don't know when you are well off.
I bet you even have mains drainage and gas.
Indeed we do have mains drainage ..... but no gas main within 3 miles of the village and most properties still have electricity supplied by wires strung overhead from wooden posts. The bungalows at the rear of the Kennels have their running from one pole and then on a single cable from roof to roof in "series". One blows a fuse and the whole lot go out! Same apples to properties on the opposite side of the High Street from us. House, church, cottage and chip shop are all connected in this manner. Puzzles many valuers sent in by building societies etc .... mortgages are hard to come by because of it.
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Virgin Drool:
Can't get it here ~ No Cable Banghead
You don't know when you are well off.
I bet you even have mains drainage and gas.
Indeed we do have mains drainage ..... but no gas main within 3 miles of the village and most properties still have electricity supplied by wires strung overhead from wooden posts. The bungalows at the rear of the Kennels have their running from one pole and then on a single cable from roof to roof in "series". One blows a fuse and the whole lot go out! Same apples to properties on the opposite side of the High Street from us. House, church, cottage and chip shop are all connected in this manner. Puzzles many valuers sent in by building societies etc .... mortgages are hard to come by because of it.
Our cables are overhead too - three phases and neutral run up the street....
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100M Drool:
Your shite would be posted even quicker BM noooo:
It would get there before I posted it even.... probably.... rubschin:
A whole new definition of "Predictive Text" whistle:
Predictive shite? lol:
Sweetie, before you type it, we already predict it's shite. happy100
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drumroll:
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100M Drool:
Your shite would be posted even quicker BM noooo:
It would get there before I posted it even.... probably.... rubschin:
A whole new definition of "Predictive Text" whistle:
Predictive shite? lol:
Sweetie, before you type it, we already predict it's shite. happy100
happy001
evil:
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100M Drool:
Quite nice considering I used to support an whole company with 2Mb lines!
Dowload speeds are good now, gonne be fun come April-July when upgraded - I'm the only person in this road with this ISP. ;D
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100M Drool:
Quite nice considering I used to support an whole company with 2Mb lines!
Dowload speeds are good now, gonne be fun come April-July when upgraded - I'm the only person in this road with this ISP. ;D
an whole again
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shit, sorry, think I just messed up. ooopsy.
never mind, apc could only ever pull a retard. bless him. cloud9:
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^^^ Pissed ^^^
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100M Drool:
Quite nice considering I used to support an whole company with 2Mb lines!
Dowload speeds are good now, gonne be fun come April-July when upgraded - I'm the only person in this road with this ISP. ;D
I used to support my whole business with a 64K ISDN line.... cloud9:
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100M Drool:
Quite nice considering I used to support an whole company with 2Mb lines!
Dowload speeds are good now, gonne be fun come April-July when upgraded - I'm the only person in this road with this ISP. ;D
I used to support my whole business with a 64K ISDN line.... cloud9:
BM showing his age again.
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100M Drool:
Quite nice considering I used to support an whole company with 2Mb lines!
Dowload speeds are good now, gonne be fun come April-July when upgraded - I'm the only person in this road with this ISP. ;D
I used to support my whole business with a 64K ISDN line.... cloud9:
BM showing his age again.
Indeed...
Of course all the employees didn't spend all their day playing on the Interweb then.... noooo:
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Only because there was nothing worth looking at. They were all too busy playing minesweeper!
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Only because there was nothing worth looking at. They were all too busy playing minesweeper!
Probably true... noooo:
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I am being infinitised on Thursday cloud9:
3 hours for installation rubschin:
noooo:
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WTF can take three hours?
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That's what I asked !
Something about changing a faceplate and something else Shrugs:
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You are forgetting the golden rule of IT, use the star trek method when you explain how long a task will take.
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You are forgetting the golden rule of IT, use the star trek method when you explain how long a task will take.
Warp Factor 5 does not apply only to the amount of slap you need in the mornings.
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The phrase "bullshit baffles brains" springs to mind noooo:
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You are forgetting the golden rule of IT, use the star trek method when you explain how long a task will take.
Warp Factor 5 does not apply only to the amount of slap you need in the mornings.
One of the first things I was taught when I started doing IT/dialler work, the IT manager was a trekkie and told us he nicked it from the first film. Multiply the actual amount of time needed to do whatever task you were given 3 or 4 times and add on an extra half our. 9 times out of 10 the person giving us the task would tell us that was too long and told us to get it done in half the time. We get it done even faster and hey presto we are miracle workers. As long as we didn't do it too often it worked a treat. whistle:
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Meanwhile Ray from BT has come and fiddled with my boxes
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedtest.net%2Fresult%2F1731557814.png&hash=7e5ef285bd43ac3f5bafccdefec6e0ccd2c16cc6)
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Meanwhile Ray from BT has come and fiddled with my boxes
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedtest.net%2Fresult%2F1731557814.png&hash=7e5ef285bd43ac3f5bafccdefec6e0ccd2c16cc6)
And are you satisfied now? whistle:
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Oh noes Snoops ...speed isn't everything you know ;)
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Meanwhile Ray from BT has come and fiddled with my boxes
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedtest.net%2Fresult%2F1731557814.png&hash=7e5ef285bd43ac3f5bafccdefec6e0ccd2c16cc6)
Drool:
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My new hub thingy has arrived cloud9:
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And when does your man ( or wumman ) arrive to fix it all ?
Took about 45 minutes. Decided not to tinker with my extension in the bedroom lol:
And he helped me put my wall unit back ( which is where the plug is located behind)
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Monday. They say it may take three hours ::)