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    I'm with Co-op who use BT infrastructure. It's slow, but it is cheap and generally trouble free and if I do need assistance, I get to speak with a helpful friendly human promptly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyrlb View Post
    We can’t get virgin in Milton Keynes as BT somehow have the rights , something to do with the old cable tv .
    Ah..... Btw, was that £75 a month *just* for your Internet service?

    We pay Virgin £90 a month for everything...Internet, phone (inclusive of unlimited calls anytime to the UK and line rental), and the full TV package, with Sky Movies, Sports and BT Sports, all in HD/UHD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Ah..... Btw, was that £75 a month *just* for your Internet service?

    We pay Virgin £90 a month for everything...Internet, phone (inclusive of unlimited calls anytime to the UK and line rental), and the full TV package, with Sky Movies, Sports and BT Sports, all in HD/UHD.

    Marco.
    Yep , that’s just for their 300meg service.



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    This may sound daft, but I keep a free (UK) dial-up internet number, just in case the broadband goes down. It's painfully slow, but will get you online in an emergency. I've only had to use it once so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    This may sound daft, but I keep a free (UK) dial-up internet number, just in case the broadband goes down. It's painfully slow, but will get you online in an emergency. I've only had to use it once so far.
    Ah you’ll be alright then Geoff when the Russians invade


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    Quote Originally Posted by andyrlb View Post
    Yep , that’s just for their 300meg service.
    Madness... When Virgin was introduced to our area in the summer, we snapped it up and cancelled Sky, as it was better all-round and half the price!

    Marco.
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    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


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    Love to have Virgin but we are not in a cabled area. Road next door is.

    But still with plusnet (part of BT and using Openreach backhaul) we get 74mb down and about 19mb up. Also importantly ping (latency) is in low single figures so pretty instant responses.

    Important (when using copper) to plug the modem (often within the router) into the BT master socket - plugging it into an extension you can easily lose half (or more) bandwidth and speed.

    Equally when measuring bandwidth and speed use a fast machine that has a direct connection to the router (e.g. via ethernet). Measuring via wifi will give very misleading results.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwardlon View Post
    Love to have Virgin but we are not in a cabled area. Road next door is.

    But still with plusnet (part of BT and using Openreach backhaul) we get 74mb down and about 19mb up. Also importantly ping (latency) is in low single figures so pretty instant responses.

    Important (when using copper) to plug the modem (often within the router) into the BT master socket - plugging it into an extension you can easily lose half (or more) bandwidth and speed.

    Equally when measuring bandwidth and speed use a fast machine that has a direct connection to the router (e.g. via ethernet). Measuring via wifi will give very misleading results.
    Yes mine was done via WiFi and on my iPhone which I believe has a maximum download/upload speed of 20meg ( or so I was told ) .
    I have a white box on the outside wall which was installed many years ago when we first got BT infinity.


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    Much can depend on the equipment you use too. And if anything else is using it. And distance from wifi output etc.

    For instance my slow laptop upstairs only gets 13 Mbps but wifi on phone upstairs gets about double that.

    Just checked phone and with Netflix on I got this



    So it will be faster in living room and the laptop down there is newer and on an Ethernet so will be a bit better than this but not a lot.

    I'm not going to get up to try tho lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by andyrlb View Post
    Yes mine was done via WiFi and on my iPhone which I believe has a maximum download/upload speed of 20meg ( or so I was told ) .
    I have a white box on the outside wall which was installed many years ago when we first got BT infinity.


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    Don't think iPhones are speed limited. Just tried using an ancient iPhone here and getting nearly 40mb down.

    I use an android phone. Once (in a museum if I recall) I got 300mb down / 300mb up. Love to have that at home!
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