oh ok, I suppose it depends what is more important to you I suppose!

I and a couple of others here favour performance over cost,

I don't suppose you sought after Sky ?

No again sky was much more expensive than BT by the time you add hd and then sky fibre2 or what ever the product is called.

Was offered a free tv and £150 cash back though..

ill give virgin a try.. hopefully im happy with it... i sonarr all my tv programs so they download as soon as available from the states about 3am so speed shouldnt be an issue..

Cheers for everyones help 5*****

Fair enough, I feared as much... hope your as lucky as I am with my Virgin connections and are in a suitably capacitated area.

Bradford Cable did our street in the 90's and all the pavement openings are triangular...

Oooh, well early newer than the installations I've experienced but yes fair enough!

In reply to a post by ZenUserJP:

Welcome to full speed in the middle of the night and 5mbps the rest of the time.

Depends where the OP lives, and if they've got good service there. I'm getting a pretty consistent service here, not everyone is complaining...

Hopefully we shall see at 2pm..

With it being only 3 days since I ordered I obviously haven't received any kit, will the virgin engineer bring it with him?

Also can I request that he run the cables in through the wall where I request rather than where the box will be on the outside of the house?

VM engineers have the superhub's and TV boxes on the van, they' bring them on the day.

As for putting it where you want, depends on the engineer. A lot of them are friendly. If you've not had cable before he'll look at what you want and take it from there. Until they start the work there's no saying where the cable will be run outside, The box on the outside is only a cover for where the cable runs in through the wall.

May have jumped to gun a little on the installation..... Phil from VM was only coming around to do the order form now that they have decided that there is indeed a cable running to my house...

He is going to expedite the order so i should be up and running in the next 7 days...

Don't worry about speeds too much .. i would say we are in peak time atm and still getting full download speed here : http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

So keep the chin up

Edit: Why are the time stamps on the speedtests always an hr slow ? i just did that test and its an hr behind us

Edited by djfunkdup (Thu 08-Oct-15 18:34:21)