When they started upgrading our area to 100 Meg I was under the impression that I'd need the superhub to 'get the best out of it' Never got round to asking for one, but seems to work fine with my old moden and Belkin router anyway. Lucky I was so lazy I guess!
Posts by An-D
20 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2007
Virgin Media's blighted SuperHub NOW comes with extra squeal (oink)
Last remaining reason to order an iPhone 5 disappears
30,000 Shreks besmirch BeautifulPeople
In-flight fight for stubborn iPhone-loving teen

I guess I'm going to hell then?
My 8 year old son has an iPhone, but it is an old 3G that was first handed down to my wife when I got a 3GS and then down to The Boy when I upgraded to the 4 (and the 3GS was handed down to SWMBO)
He plays games on it and I use it to tell him it's time to come home for tea when he's round the corner playing with his pals instead of standing at the front door whistling.
He is neither spoilt or revolting or a toe rag. I have peace of mind that I can let him spread his wings a few more yards away from the house and keep in touch with him and satisfaction that an old phone has an extended life and he is learning the value of objects by taking good care of it.
Do I qualify for a good kicking?
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Stella Artois augments iPhone reality
'Steve Jobs' repeals AT&T iPhone prank
Royal Navy to get two carriers - but only one air group?
US Spec Ops operates psywar websites targeted at UK
Sky switches on 3D TV channel in 2010
Deal inked in US Navy 'R2-D2' raygun robo-turret plan
Apple massages iPhone code
Royal Navy completes Windows for Submarines™ rollout
FM1600B
Back in my day (1989), the Ferranti FM1600B was the backbone of the ship's 'information superhighway' and the OS was loaded from punched paper the point being that paper tape was immune to EMP. I presume these windows boxes will have magnetic HDD's....interesting.
Give me the 1600B any day. Setting switches on the main console so that the bit display counted in binary was much more fun than playing minesweeper :)
Warrington first to get Virgin Media 50Mb/s

50meg = 20meg actual
In my experience of Virgin Media, you'll only be able to get 50Meg at 4am. The rest of the time, especially if you are connected to the UBR in Liverpool, you'll be lucky to get 20Meg. I complained bitterly about the fact I only got 6Meg as an average, somewhat short of the stated 20Meg. Their response? "Well, you should downgrade to 10Meg then eh"
Reg reader completely loses the plot
AVG chokes fake traffic spew
NZ bank robber stashes loot where the sun don't shine
Colombian armed robber targets karate school
Virgin throttles national cable network
Reduce your Virgin Broadband bill
..By ringing up and complaining about the service and how you are going to switch to Sky / another ISP.
I live in Preston and since last year I've been experiencing problems 'because of the UBR in Liverpool'. After about 20 calls in 6 months to report that my 10 meg connection was barely achieving 1 meg I called the disconnection team to inform them I was leaving.
Miraculously, they found that they could not only offer me a �20 'we're sorry' credit, they could also reduce my monthly broadband bill so currently (and for the next 6 months) I am getting 20 meg for only �16 / month.