Virgin net are giving me a free speed upgrade

Post by **DRuM** » Sun May 15, 2005 3:59 am

Pretty cool. Virgin net who I've been with for some time on a 512Kbps conn, emailed me and are upgrading customers to 1 Mbps for free. I just clicked the upgrade button and they're gonna change it for me over the next few days. I pay £24.99 a month and stayed with them because I get 20gb download per month. There probably are better deals out there, but for now, this is not so bad.

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:01 am

Nice. Got an upgrade from mine not too long ago myself. :icon14:

Post by **DRuM** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:04 am

scourge34 wrote:Nice. Got an upgrade from mine not too long ago myself. :icon14:

Cool. What was your upgrade scourge?

Post by **andyman** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:17 am

*waits for testo's post*

what is the upload speed on that?

Post by **bork[e]** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:19 am

hmmm, I was never told I have a limit on my downloads...if so I've prolly gone over it already this month.

Do all ISP's have this, I'm on Cox and have noticed many of you are as well...anyone ever got a call from 'em or been shut off b/c of it?

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:23 am

DRuM wrote:
scourge34 wrote:Nice. Got an upgrade from mine not too long ago myself. :icon14:
Cool. What was your upgrade scourge?

From 3 down/384 up to 4 down/512 up and from 30 gb a month to 40 gb a month.

@bork[e]: I'm also on cox. I don't think I've ever gone over, so no warnings.

Post by **DRuM** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:26 am

Is there a way I can find out how much I download a month? I honestly don't think I even get close to 20gb, so it might be worth me downgrading to a cheaper package. Virgin do a package for £10 less a month with about 6 gb download. If I ring up virgin, think they should be able to tell me what I use on average?

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:26 am

Surely they would be willing to tell you.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun May 15, 2005 7:44 am

bork[e] wrote:hmmm, I was never told I have a limit on my downloads...if so I've prolly gone over it already this month.

Do all ISP's have this, I'm on Cox and have noticed many of you are as well...anyone ever got a call from 'em or been shut off b/c of it?

i'm reluctant to type this, but i just touched a Powerbook.

"There's no limit on Cox."

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun May 15, 2005 7:45 am

DRuM wrote:Is there a way I can find out how much I download a month? I honestly don't think I even get close to 20gb, so it might be worth me downgrading to a cheaper package. Virgin do a package for £10 less a month with about 6 gb download. If I ring up virgin, think they should be able to tell me what I use on average?

i would check your billing. if they're limiting you, surely they have it graphed at least either online or on paper in your mail.

Post by **-Nick--** » Sun May 15, 2005 7:58 am

nildram are inducing a 70gb per month cap, and upgrading my 512 connection to a 2mb. all the the nic esum of 25 quid a month. and if i go over, they just slow my speed to isdn speed i think

Post by **DiscoDave** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:05 am

With my new house at uni we're going to be getting something like 8mbit

cap is something like 300gig a month...

Will make a nice difference from sharing a 1mbit line with 4 people...

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sun May 15, 2005 1:09 pm

Use DU Meter.

And that deal still sucks drum. I pay £23 for UNLIMITED (done 30gb and they still don't care) 1mb, and also with an additoinal 10gb usage to Usenet which is worth £7 a month, free.

http://www.solo.pipex.com/ - its currently at £14 for 2 months then goes up to £23 if you should sign up (if you did want to switch I'll be happy to give you my referal code

). The Solo packages are unlimited, the lite are limited but still great deals. Their also the biggest in the country.

Post by **DRuM** » Sun May 15, 2005 2:26 pm

Hmm, well either pipex and nildram sound good. Gonna have to say goodbye to virgin net I think.

Post by **4days** » Sun May 15, 2005 2:54 pm

DRuM wrote:Hmm, well either pipex and nildram sound good. Gonna have to say goodbye to virgin net I think.

aye, both really good companies :icon14:

switched to cable a while back because the local adsl exchange (that BT apparently bought from communist russia) is incapable of maintaining a decent connection to this part of town - but the service from nildram themselves was really good.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sun May 15, 2005 3:05 pm

Nildram (owned by Pipex) have just introduced a cap in the day time; something like 50gb a month between 9am to 8pm the rest is uncapped. I'd go with pipex

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 15, 2005 3:14 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
bork[e] wrote:hmmm, I was never told I have a limit on my downloads...if so I've prolly gone over it already this month.

Do all ISP's have this, I'm on Cox and have noticed many of you are as well...anyone ever got a call from 'em or been shut off b/c of it?
i'm reluctant to type this, but i just touched a Powerbook.

"There's no limit on Cox."

Well, that's not completely true.

[lvlshot]http://members.cox.net/jwivie2/cox.JPG[/lvlshot]

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun May 15, 2005 3:40 pm

scourge34 wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
bork[e] wrote:hmmm, I was never told I have a limit on my downloads...if so I've prolly gone over it already this month.

Do all ISP's have this, I'm on Cox and have noticed many of you are as well...anyone ever got a call from 'em or been shut off b/c of it?
i'm reluctant to type this, but i just touched a Powerbook.

"There's no limit on Cox."
Well, that's not completely true.

[lvlshot]http://members.cox.net/jwivie2/cox.JPG[/lvlshot]

whoa, nice find. i suppose unless you're some cheap *ss unemployed warez monkey, you wouldn't hit those numbers anyway.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 15, 2005 3:43 pm

about cox huh? Could they try to be any gayer?

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 15, 2005 3:44 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
scourge34 wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote: i'm reluctant to type this, but i just touched a Powerbook.

"There's no limit on Cox."
Well, that's not completely true.

[lvlshot]http://members.cox.net/jwivie2/cox.JPG[/lvlshot]
whoa, nice find. i suppose unless you're some cheap *ss unemployed warez monkey, you wouldn't hit those numbers anyway.

I doubt that I've even come close to that. I think I'll monitor it for the next month and see what I actually do use.

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 15, 2005 3:44 pm

Kracus wrote:about cox huh? Could they try to be any gayer?

:icon26:

Post by **DRuM** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:18 pm

PhoeniX wrote:Nildram (owned by Pipex) have just introduced a cap in the day time; something like 50gb a month between 9am to 8pm the rest is uncapped. I'd go with pipex

Well 50gb is gonna be way more than enough, and if nildram are doing a 2Mbps connection I might seriously have to consider them.
:icon28:

Post by **glossy** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:20 pm

Kracus wrote:about cox huh? Could they try to be any gayer?

:lol::lol:, i just got that

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:39 pm

PhoeniX wrote:Use DU Meter.

.

Just got that. If there's a feature to show total bandwidth used I can't find it.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:43 pm

scourge34 wrote:
PhoeniX wrote:Use DU Meter.

.
Just got that. If there's a feature to show total bandwidth used I can't find it.

Right click the desktop icon > totals