Yes but was told they dont do it in the area and went for the lesser option that was on offer with the intention of upgrading to infinity when it was available.

BT's loss.

In fact think Im better off with VM.. BT have a 100gb FUP and got me and stepson which consume a fair amount of bandwith, me with gaming and him with youtube.

Welcome back wild.

Was it bt's infinity service you tried to sign up to?.I only asked as i also tried to sign up to the same service and had the exact same experience.Seems they have been accepting orders for it on exchanges that are not ready for it so the order fails to go through

[quote="LazerFX"]Got a couple of friends who can't/won't get Virgin (Either because of area, or because of the (occasional) issues with the service*) who are with Be. As long as you dump out the included Router and get one of your own (Or place it somewhere well ventilated) you're OK. That Thompson thing is a piece of crap, though.

* Virgin does have issues roughly once every couple of months, in my experience. It's never _too_ bad, though, so I'm not too fussed.[/quote]

yeah as a router the Thompson is crap, i run it in bridge mode with my Netgear for the router seems to do ok that way at present, I would use the netgear fully but it's a DG834 v3 and such it's not a broadcom chipset which BEs network uses, i'll probably see if i can get a V4 which does use broadcom or a different router with a broadcom chipset at some later point, i just have other more important things at the present which require money such is the way of things now.

Got a couple of friends who can't/won't get Virgin (Either because of area, or because of the (occasional) issues with the service*) who are with Be. As long as you dump out the included Router and get one of your own (Or place it somewhere well ventilated) you're OK. That Thompson thing is a piece of crap, though.

* Virgin does have issues roughly once every couple of months, in my experience. It's never _too_ bad, though, so I'm not too fussed.

[quote="wildride"]Were going to go with BT (because of a deal they offered us) but come installation day (23rd) despite the BT site saying it was still going ahead they didnt, we only called them because the router still wasnt here, in fact we found out after calling the whole order was apparently cancelled pretty much the day it was made and BT hadnt bother contacting us to sort it out.

So because of that we dropped them like a hot potato, got Virgin 50mb as they came and did it on the 25th.

That started briliantly with it not even allowing me to activate it to begin with.. though this worked in my favour as I got to talk with a tech for a good hour while sorting it out, may have a solution for those with slow downloads through VM (possibly others) where you have to turn off IP flood detection in the router settings or it drags the speed down to a crawl.[/quote]

Typical BT, if it were a bill they were chasing they wouldn't have a problem contacting you, the turning off IP flood detection sounds like it could be helpful, will be interesting to see what the soultion comes up with.

i had to change ISP myself as sky closed down Ukonline, was sad to see them go as they served me well, I'm now with BEthere and it's been ok so far.

Were going to go with BT (because of a deal they offered us) but come installation day (23rd) despite the BT site saying it was still going ahead they didnt, we only called them because the router still wasnt here, in fact we found out after calling the whole order was apparently cancelled pretty much the day it was made and BT hadnt bother contacting us to sort it out.

So because of that we dropped them like a hot potato, got Virgin 50mb as they came and did it on the 25th.

That started briliantly with it not even allowing me to activate it to begin with.. though this worked in my favour as I got to talk with a tech for a good hour while sorting it out, may have a solution for those with slow downloads through VM (possibly others) where you have to turn off IP flood detection in the router settings or it drags the speed down to a crawl.

[quote="wildride"]lol I thought that was because I co-incidently only just started using FB at that time, figured I installed some plugin. (sorry for late reply just got net after moving house)[/quote]

Hey good to see ya back Wildride, are you still with AOL or did you go with someone else after the move.

lol I thought that was because I co-incidently only just started using FB at that time, figured I installed some plugin. (sorry for late reply just got net after moving house)

That's the spirit :)

Will do! :)

Not that I haven't already told a few. Most say they'll probably sign up bu short of money atm.