Topic: Virgin - three strikes and you're out!

[Simon]

"The UK's largest residential broadband provider, Virgin Media, has announced its intention to introduce a warning system for those caught engaged in illegal downloading (piracy). It is expected to be very similar to the controversial "Three-Strikes" method proposed by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and will go live within the next few months."

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/news/EkpylyVFEVprNOiCbo.html

[sam]

ive had just about enough of virgin and their rules.. things were great when it was telewest but the service has become increasingly shoddy now that virgin have taken over. They no throttle connections, and they started doing this without telling their customers. There speeds are increasingly crap, probably because they have too many users and trying to get too much out of it. I do like the fact that it is not tied to my phone in anyway and its completely separate but at the moment here is one angry virgin user...

[Malc]

Watch out IDnet and others, the masses wil be coming.

[Simon]

ive had just about enough of virgin and their rules.. things were great when it was telewest but the service has become increasingly shoddy now that virgin have taken over. They no throttle connections, and they started doing this without telling their customers. There speeds are increasingly crap, probably because they have too many users and trying to get too much out of it. I do like the fact that it is not tied to my phone in anyway and its completely separate but at the moment here is one angry virgin user...

That sounds just like what happened with Pipex, Sam.   

Watch out IDnet and others, the masses wil be coming.

Yes, Malc, it's the users of ISPs that don't adopt the policy that will end up suffering, with all the heavy downloaders jumping the Virgin ship, and looking for somewhere else to go. 

[sam]

oh well, poor you :-D ... I'm pretty sure that most of the users on virgin dont download that much as most of them probably got it bundled in for an extra tenner...

[daveeb]

ive had just about enough of virgin and their rules.. things were great when it was telewest but the service has become increasingly shoddy now that virgin have taken over. They no throttle connections, and they started doing this without telling their customers. There speeds are increasingly crap, probably because they have too many users and trying to get too much out of it. I do like the fact that it is not tied to my phone in anyway and its completely separate but at the moment here is one angry virgin user...

This one makes two, the throttling really annoys me.  They were fine as NTL but they have gone to the dogs since the VM rebranding. 
I've been a "valued" cable customer for 13 years  and i pay £18 for a 2 meg connection which plummets to 1 meg as soon as i dare use it as broadband.  If I were a new customer i'd get it for £4.50 for the first year then £9 after that. Good eh  ':|

I did negotiate a small discount but it's still overpriced....trouble is the only alternative (ie adsl) seems like a backwards step when in theory cable internet is by far the superior product.  Well done Virgin Media