Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

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Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby abbasar2000 on Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:11 pm

Can access here, other car sites, everything apart from facebook, msn and ebay.. ? its not just this computer ive plugged the ethernet cable into my other laptop and its the same?
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby - Danny Boy - on Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:23 pm

I think facebook is having a general down session at the moment, myself and alot of people i know cant get on there. Im on virigin media, only thing i cant get on is facebook. Soooo. yea. lol
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby abbasar2000 on Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:27 pm

Gay. Facebook is ruining my sex life.
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby Ruishy1 on Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:37 am

abbasar2000 :Gay. Facebook is ruining my sex life.

i thought facebook WAS for people with noi sex life :-?
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby dangerousdave on Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:37 am

mate over the road hasnt been able to get on the net for 4 days only the lotto site works ??? :-?
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby dontpannic on Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:28 pm

They are likely to be DNS issues or PC issues rather than the connection. It either works or it doesn't.
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby Tweek on Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:26 pm

abbasar2000 :Can access here, other car sites, everything apart from facebook, msn and ebay.. ? its not just this computer ive plugged the ethernet cable into my other laptop and its the same?
Had similar problems with all those sites and the internet itself is rather slow last night and this morning. MSN and Bandwidth tests are fine though so no idea what's going on. It's fine now though!
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby DanFraser on Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:35 pm

Ever thought it's Virgin? When I had to send a 10 page dossier determining the problem 70miles away that I could never physically see and they couldn't an issue even though they could look at the hardware, it seemed bad enough. They throttle you like mad, no matter how much you use. Everyone gets cut down on their line speed at peak times, deliberately.
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby dontpannic on Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:55 pm

Come on.

Not everyone gets throttled, I have only been once.
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby trecoll on Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:39 am

DanFraser :Ever thought it's Virgin? When I had to send a 10 page dossier determining the problem 70miles away that I could never physically see and they couldn't an issue even though they could look at the hardware, it seemed bad enough. They throttle you like mad, no matter how much you use. Everyone gets cut down on their line speed at peak times, deliberately.


I've been with virgin for over 2 years and have never once been throttled... Possibly because I never go over my bandwidth allowance!? :-? :rolleyes:
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Re: Anyone got virgin broadband and having probs?

Postby Tweek on Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:30 pm

Also suffered with throttling once or twice. Shouldn't be anything to do with bandwidth because it's unlimited with Virgin is it not? Has to phone up and complain, nobody seemed to be any help and just blamed it on my PC! Anyway, finally got through to someone with brains and told me it was capped and gave us a £5 off next bill :lol:
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