Virgin 50Mb Boltband

[Rone]

Originally Posted by SteevieNiteHeat

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

The advert they SHOULD make is Usain Bolt running fast for a quarter of the way, then he morphs into an OAP bearly managing to walk yet alone run!

This at least would be TRUE advertising

So my 20 meg is the "Paula Radcliffe" always looks promising, but frequently fails to deliver.

[foreverwar]

My 10Mb must be the rowing team - fairly constant, always delivers.

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by Downloads

This is exactly why I stopped coming to these forums, the posters on here whine like little girls with so much negativity. People always moaned before, but generally it use to be about their own issues, it ramped up big time when the Virgin/Sky dispute started and never stopped. First time I came back in ages and it looks like I made the right decision to go to talk about TV/Internet stuff elsewhere.

You could have stayed around to discuss other non VM issues or to offer help and advice to those suffering poor service or those needing help of any sort...Cable Forum is so much more than the moaners and ranters...

[CrowmanUK]

Besides we wouldn't be British if we didnt do a bit of moaning would we

[SteevieNiteHeat]

Originally Posted by Downloads

This is exactly why I stopped coming to these forums, the posters on here whine like little girls with so much negativity. People always moaned before, but generally it use to be about their own issues, it ramped up big time when the Virgin/Sky dispute started and never stopped. First time I came back in ages and it looks like I made the right decision to go to talk about TV/Internet stuff elsewhere.

I think you will find that it is every human being's right to complain if they think that they need to, and as everybody has an oppinion, some differ from others, but that is also their right as a human being.
Also, everybody has the right to be treated fairly and not be ripped off!

[Stuart C]

Originally Posted by SteevieNiteHeat

Seriously, there is advertising, then there is taking the complete micky mouse!

They could have saved £20m by NOT using that blonde bint Uma Thurman to head the new virgin media brand, and probably save an extra £40M at least with Samuel L Jackson and Ruby Wax.
I am all for advertising, but NOT by paying these famous people and having to pay such large amounts!

They could, and the resulting 60 million saved would have payed for upgrading one or two areas (and making the service nicer for a few thousand people), or (and this is more likely) payed some of the interest on their billions of pounds of loans.

However, the adverts could well have generated a lot more than £60 million worth of extra business, or they could have gone a long way to preventing the 10s of thousands of people who Sky seemed to be expecting to leave, leave.

Either way, they could have helped Virgin a lot more than just using the money elsewhere.

[foreverwar]

Originally Posted by SteevieNiteHeat

I think you will find that it is every human being's right to complain if they think that they need to, and as everybody has an oppinion, some differ from others, but that is also their right as a human being.
Also, everybody has the right to be treated fairly and not be ripped off!

Don't remember that in the EHCR.....

Article 10 states "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression" - doesn't actually state "complain"

[Broadbandings]

Here's hoping they don't show Bolt running back to the finishing line after finishing his race, he might do it one way in less than 10 seconds but will take over 3 minutes to get back following the upstream ratio VM are offering.

Talking of upstream anyone know what VM are going to be running on the 10k's 50Mbit upstream? Are we looking at the same as the others or are they going to try a DOCSIS 2 width/modulation upstream?

[Downloads]

Originally Posted by SteevieNiteHeat

I think you will find that it is every human being's right to complain if they think that they need to, and as everybody has an oppinion, some differ from others, but that is also their right as a human being.
Also, everybody has the right to be treated fairly and not be ripped off!

I agree, but...

If someone puts a new thread the same person then goes onto the next thread and says "yeah but mine is crap, i was 10mb and i am only getting 6mb", a new thread appears and they say the same thing... again.

You have a right to moan, but why to do it repeatedly, we can't do anything about it. Leave VM, don't take other people's enjoyment away from discussing on a thread by posting how crap your service is constantly. I truely wish everyone got their 20mb or whatever like i do, but if i didn't i wouldn't moan on here about it all the time. I would create one thread, tell my story and that would be it, i would sign up to BT or whoever and maybe give Virgin another try in a year or so.

I hope they call it BoltBand, i hope they pay Bolt loads of money. How much they pay Bolt will have nothing to do with how much money they spend on their network. It's good promotion. Advertising brings in customers. Let it rip.

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

You could have stayed around to discuss other non VM issues or to offer help and advice to those suffering poor service or those needing help of any sort...Cable Forum is so much more than the moaners and ranters...

You are right of course, i always enjoyed reading your posts, mainly because you didn't moan every other post and i'm very pleased to see you have been promoted up the ranks! I'll try to be on a bit more again maybe, it's just the Sky/Virgin thing got me down on these boards, could only take so much!

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

Don't remember that in the EHCR.....

Article 10 states "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression" - doesn't actually state "complain"

Glad to see you are still fighting the fight mate lol