popped into a virgin kiosk today in a local shopping centre.
picked up the full hoise bundle with a second box for £30 a month all in.
200mb broadband. weekend calls and all channels except movies and sport.
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grunfos1986 to MoreBeer77
8 Dec 1611#3
sky are awful
mcguire85
8 Dec 167#2
Lol im with Sky reliable broadband and tv u must be one of the few lucky ones. everyone i know with sky inc. myself who just got rid of Virgin n now with Sky are regretting it. Im getting virgin back next week but means im paying for both for another 12 month but cant do with sky Q. Im gonna be 55 however i may phone up n see what they can do.
LesD
8 Dec 165#5
Welcome to hukd. It's customary to tell US how WE get the deal.
Current Virgin price for this package is a lot more than that.
Not to mention the activation fee and the line rental and the TIVO box.
MoreBeer77
8 Dec 164#1
Basic TV, minimum phone and broadband that requires a tech out twice a week? Will stick with sky, full TV package, reliable broadband, Max phone package, hd package etc etc etc for £35 per month. Vermin Media are a rip off.
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MoreBeer77
8 Dec 164#1
Basic TV, minimum phone and broadband that requires a tech out twice a week? Will stick with sky, full TV package, reliable broadband, Max phone package, hd package etc etc etc for £35 per month. Vermin Media are a rip off.
grunfos1986 to MoreBeer77
8 Dec 1611#3
sky are awful
benjammin316 to MoreBeer77
8 Dec 16#6
Top kek
snowflake75 to MoreBeer77
8 Dec 163#13
I've been with Virgini 8 years and have only had to call an engineer out once as I've never otherwise had any problems. Also calling out Virgin engineers is always included. with sky it's only 12 months and then you have to take out insurance.
DAZZ2000 to MoreBeer77
8 Dec 161#15
Had Virgin Media services for 14 years now and have had the engineer out twice in that time. Both times it was to perform a cabling installation to the premises. Never had any other problem that I couldn't resolve without the need for their engineer. Their broadband is streets ahead of Sky - up to 4 times faster I believe?.
This bundle above is not the basic TV either. It's the XL TV package so it wants for nothing.
Both Sky and Virgin like to hike their prices. The only way to keep the costs sensible are to either threaten to leave or bounce from one to the other each year. I usually choose the former.
mickrick to MoreBeer77
8 Dec 161#21
Spoken like a true regretter. Our 200mbps gets max'd out every day, no "up to" or speed caps. TV issues are few and far between. And the phone, though very rarely used, always works when it is called into service. Sorry, but you can keep your "totally reliable" blisteringly fast Sky broadband speed (whatever it is as Sky seem to be very cagey about what their connection speeds are, quoting "up to" download and upload speeds, but not connection speeds. Hardly the most trustworthy of companies)
Hendies to MoreBeer77
9 Dec 16#26
Tech out twice a week? No idea what you're on about. I'm on 200mbps with virgin and it's flawless internet. 225mbps download speeds, no outages - although we did buy a TP-LINK ac router for the garbage superhub to feed through for wireless
mcguire85
8 Dec 167#2
Lol im with Sky reliable broadband and tv u must be one of the few lucky ones. everyone i know with sky inc. myself who just got rid of Virgin n now with Sky are regretting it. Im getting virgin back next week but means im paying for both for another 12 month but cant do with sky Q. Im gonna be 55 however i may phone up n see what they can do.
MoreBeer77 to mcguire85
8 Dec 16#9
what problems do you have? We've had zero, plus got my dad hooked up too. Had around 6 years of continual problems with VM. Around 100+ tech visits, their principal tech practically lived here... Took 6 years for the top guys to turn up with a diagnostics device and say... "you have a kink in your line, you'll need a repull", so for years we had constant drop offs with Internet and TV... All we got was £70 and 6 months free service and we quit after that because we still had nonstop problems with Tivo... Plus they put the price up to well over £200 per month despite half of our bundle being promised as free for life... I could go on for hours over the other problems, like the pay on demand footy not working and the Indian call centre playing birds songs down the line and banging a drum... The repull coming from the wrong house... TV changing channels by itself, 4 new Tivo boxes going BOOM... PLUS there's the problems my dad had and still does because vm trashed his roof aerial cable... Never again.
sparc
8 Dec 16#4
How is this price possible. :man:
LesD
8 Dec 165#5
Welcome to hukd. It's customary to tell US how WE get the deal.
Current Virgin price for this package is a lot more than that.
Not to mention the activation fee and the line rental and the TIVO box.
bigack
8 Dec 161#7
I would not order virgin until after xmas when the new TiVo v6 comes out officially it's miles better than the old TiVo
den169 to bigack
9 Dec 16#37
Anything is better than the tivo box its the worst box i have ever seen slow iplayer never works 100mb broadband and it still doesn't work.
gillhoose1888
8 Dec 163#8
That's strange that you are saying you have the full house bundle as that includes the sport then you say without sport and movies so what have you got?????
Gollywood to gillhoose1888
8 Dec 16#10
1 bed flat
dave_mito to gillhoose1888
8 Dec 16#18
full house has some sport. but not sky sport
alimuhammad_18 to gillhoose1888
15 Dec 16#66
Only BT sport & Movies NOT SkySports
bobtastic
8 Dec 16#11
Is this including line rental?
dave_mito to bobtastic
9 Dec 16#40
yes it was
myapps
8 Dec 16#12
I got the same deal last week through retensions, although my TV is XL not full house.
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Opening post
picked up the full hoise bundle with a second box for £30 a month all in.
200mb broadband. weekend calls and all channels except movies and sport.
Top comments
Current Virgin price for this package is a lot more than that.
Not to mention the activation fee and the line rental and the TIVO box.
All comments (71)
This bundle above is not the basic TV either. It's the XL TV package so it wants for nothing.
Both Sky and Virgin like to hike their prices. The only way to keep the costs sensible are to either threaten to leave or bounce from one to the other each year. I usually choose the former.
Current Virgin price for this package is a lot more than that.
Not to mention the activation fee and the line rental and the TIVO box.