Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Rob Beard
On 03/02/12 20:56, Bod Soutar wrote: Rob, They will discount me to the cost of a 50mb package. Bodsda Interesting, so that makes me wonder if customers could upgrade to 100Mbit just before the changes, get the discount and then the free speed upgrade? :-) I dunno what I'd do with 120Mb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Bod Soutar
On Feb 3, 2012 6:36 PM, "Rob Beard" wrote: > > On 03/02/12 18:20, Bod Soutar wrote: >> >> Hi, I am a virgin media customer on the 100mb package. They are upping >> me to 120mb and giving me a discount. >> >> I can confirm that although they don't offer linux 'support' all >> services with the exce

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Rob Beard
On 03/02/12 14:10, Andres Muniz wrote: Hello all, just in case it is of interest. I am a virjin media costumer with 5mb broadband (good enough for me). I just had a call home offering the double up for free. Do you have Virgin media cable (i.e you have a box on the front of your house with a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Rob Beard
On 03/02/12 18:20, Bod Soutar wrote: Hi, I am a virgin media customer on the 100mb package. They are upping me to 120mb and giving me a discount. I can confirm that although they don't offer linux 'support' all services with the exception of installable software is completely linux compatible.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Bod Soutar
On Feb 3, 2012 2:07 PM, "Andres Muniz" wrote: > > Hello all, > > just in case it is of interest. I am a virjin media costumer with 5mb broadband (good enough for me). I just had a call home offering the double up for free. > > But the offer is only if you upgrade or are using their 30 meg package.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Andres Muniz
> "If you’re currently on up to 10Mb, up to 30Mb or up to 50Mb broadband, > we’ll double your speed. If you’re on up to 20Mb you’ll be tripled. And > for those on Broadband 100, we’ll be boosting you up to a mighty 120Mb – > a new benchmark as the UK’s fastest widely available broadband." I see

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Iain Cuthbertson
On 03/02/12 15:48, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On 2012-02-03 14:26, Alan Pope wrote: >> It's a "Super Hub". I have one. It's just a custom netgear device with a >> cable modem internally. Some people have had issues with it, but that's >> nothing to do with Linux. > So it's a router+modem? Has NAT and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread javadayaz
im being free upgraded from 10mb to 20mb On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:51 PM, michael wrote: > Had a letter yesterday informing me that there kicking me from 50Mb upto > 120Mb...apparently due to them thinking that I am such a good customer. > > Have to wait until june though :( > > I havent had much

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread michael
Had a letter yesterday informing me that there kicking me from 50Mb upto 120Mb...apparently due to them thinking that I am such a good customer. Have to wait until june though :( I havent had much of an issue with the superhub...wireless seems a bit slow at times but no problems when I'm on th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-02-03 14:26, Alan Pope wrote: > It's a "Super Hub". I have one. It's just a custom netgear device with a > cable modem internally. Some people have had issues with it, but that's > nothing to do with Linux. So it's a router+modem? Has NAT and all that? Can it present a public IP to my own

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 14:26 +, Alan Pope wrote: > "If you’re currently on up to 10Mb, up to 30Mb or up to 50Mb > broadband, we’ll double your speed. If you’re on up to 20Mb you’ll be > tripled. And for those on Broadband 100, we’ll be boosting you up to a > mighty 120Mb – a new benchmark as the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Alan Pope
On 03/02/12 14:10, Andres Muniz wrote: But the offer is only if you upgrade or are using their 30 meg package. 5 is enough for me but 60 meg is very tempting. But after a long conversation i had to decline: That's not true. http://my.virginmedia.com/customer-news/articles/speedupgrade.html "I

[ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Andres Muniz
Hello all, just in case it is of interest. I am a virjin media costumer with 5mb broadband (good enough for me). I just had a call home offering the double up for free. But the offer is only if you upgrade or are using their 30 meg package. 5 is enough for me but 60 meg is very tempting. But a