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[Lobster]

In the UK some of us are forced to use ADSL broadband. My sister is using a service that can not stream (which it should be able to do)

My ISP Virgin, recently 'upgraded' the speed. It then became slower. Over Christmas it would be completely down for a day or two and then for no apparant reason come back.
Replaced the ADSL filter and cable, line test done by virgin - and is OK.
Are they oversubscribed and turning nodes off?
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Virgin-ridiculous-Broadband-problems-caused/story-17122675-detail/story.html
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/your-virgin-broadband-struggling-with-streaming-blame-unnamed-third-party-peering-network/

I am not quite sure how best to deal with Virgin. Is there an ombudsman or other course of action others have found works?

Many thanks guys . . .

[Flash]

The Internet seems to be a bit slower than usual over here too. Maybe it'll go back to its usual self when everyone goes back to work after the holiday season. We're all a bit plugged up after all that cheese.

[Moose On The Loose]

[ally]

my daughter has had the same problem in bradfotd

I had an awful time with BT with slow speed and line drops, 6 months of excuses from them and it turned out that everybody on the same pole as me had the same issue so BT would have been aware

not funny, so it appears there all the blo@@dy same......!!

I managed to get the uk team email address and emailed EVERY time something happened with dates and times - several times a day sometimes, it leaves a 'paper' trail

[Sylvander]

I'm unaware of any problem with my Virgin cable broadband service.
Guess I'm lucky to not be forced to use ADSL.

Other than a problem created here at my end by a Christmas guest.
On Xmas day...
My daughter unplugged my modem power unit to charged her mobile phone...
And failed to reconnect the modem power unit.

So...
My Slacko couldn't connect me to the web.
I checked the power unit was connected, but failed to trace to the correct unit, and thought it was connected.
Tested the plug at the modem end and there was no voltage.
So I phoned Virgin and told them I thought the power unit had failed.
So they sent me a fancy new combined modem and router, with included power-unit.

When going through the motions of removing the old hardware prior to fitting the new...
I discovered the problem, and fixed it by plugging in the old modem power unit.
I'm continuing with the old hardware for now; it works perfectly.

Phoned Virgin to tell them about this, and they say I should keep the new unit as a backup in case of future failure of any of the modem/router/power-unit hardware.
He upgraded my speed from 20Mb/s to 60Mb/s at no additional cost.
I'd previously arranged to limit my speed to 20Mb/s at a reduced tariff, so I'm now getting 60Mb/s at reduced tariff.

[Lobster]

thanks guys, they finally registered a fault and I hope this is now fixed. Really made me how dependent on broadband I am . . . for entertainment, communication and information . . .