A spokesperson at Virgin Media said the company is "Wanting to keep your business at all cost to you we put up our pricesa as often as we can and yes your service will fail... suck it up buttercup....
Your call is important to us please hold."
Posts by Mintyboy
27 posts • joined 31 Aug 2007
TalkTalk, Three, and Virgin Media, come on down! You've all won a prize for... not being that great at something!
Where there's a .mil, there's Huawei: Pentagon allowed to keep using Chinese tech deemed too dangerous for everyone else – report
Virgin Orbit at last ready to live up to its name: Branson's other space adventure set for maiden flight this weekend
Royal Navy nuclear submarine captain rapped for letting crew throw shoreside BBQ party
BOFH: The case of the Boss's hidden USB inkjet printer
Dixons hits back at McAfee's £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn't work on Windows 10S
Virgin Media promises speeds of 1Gpbs to 15 million homes – all without full fibre
It's now officially the WhackBook Pro: If the keyboards weren't bad enough, now MacBook Pro batts are a fire risk
Welcome! Mimecast finds interesting door policies on email filters
Thursday 30th August 2018 12:36 GMT
We use Mimecast as the first layer of email security and then we use a hosted exchange for our email, all I can say is thank god the hosted email system has spam & virus filtering as mimecast still let cr4p through.
Even our end point security has to grab the last scrags of vermin ware that have made it through all the filtering.
Multi layered approach is the only way and still beat sorry train end users to be vigilant.
Have I been paid, Sage? Cloudy wage service locks out users
Thursday 5th July 2018 19:55 GMT 
Didn't bother ringing Sage lack of support we have just changed this month to the cloudy payslips after they told me I had to give our HR Drones Admin access to the domain and local PC to be able to send out the payslips by email since the last update....
Needless to say I hold their support people just below HP and BT.
Thankfully I will not have to deal with morons much more as we are having a sage 200 box installed that I will nothing to do with ... thank you External support people ...
Small UK firms laying fibre put BT's Openreach to shame – report
Sunday 15th April 2018 22:58 GMT
B4RN These Guys have it right
Have a look at the B4RN stuff, they are stuffing the likes of BT (Where are the billions you got for doing fibre.... a$$wipes) or Virmin Media (thank you for the speed increase and price) cannot or won't do and the annoying bit where I am was supposed to be part of the SuperFastSouthYorkshite network there is a fibre cab with 1 GB in it at the end of the street approx 200yds away can I get it no way no one will supply it due to wayleaves and build costs.
Software update borked radar, delayed hundreds of flights, says US FAA
Last flying Avro Vulcan, XH558, prepares for her swan song
BOFH: A miracle on PFY Street
TV transport tech, part 2: From sofa to server at the touch of a button
Friday 22nd August 2014 12:33 GMT 
Brilliant Write Ups
Loved the write ups, love the in depth details on how they deliver the content, even though I only have their Fibre Broadband.
Well done more articles like this please - have a beer you need it after the write up unless you used a transcription service in which case a Beer Wine for the typist.
LOHAN packs bags for SPACEPORT AMERICA!
Just when you thought you were alone in the bath: Hi-res mapping satellite ready for launch
Wednesday 13th August 2014 08:58 GMT 
Dates??
"It is expected to launch on Wednesday 12 August or Thursday 13 August, depending on the weather."
Round these parts its Tuesday 12th, Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th... This year at least...
Or will the higher resolution be able to break the time dimensions...
Mines the one with the sonic screwdriver and the tin hat on a string..
Sysadmin Day 2014: Quick, there's still time to get the beers in
Firefighters deliver trapped student from GIANT GERMAN LADYPARTS
Brit giant Daisy stuffs face with treats, but she ain't piling on ££££££s
Graphics pros left hanging as Adobe Creative Cloud outage nears 24 hours
Classified LOHAN payload is four-eyed beast
Reports pump fuel into iCar gossip: Apple in 'talks' with Tesla
NASA's search for habitable planets maps ALIEN CLOUD-WORLD
MPs slam bumpkin fibre rollout, demand halt to further £250m cash spaff
Thursday 26th September 2013 13:37 GMT 
I work on the southern edge of Doncaster and you would think that you are in the wilds here.
We cannot get Digital Region, now defunct anyway, Virgin Cable not going over the motorway and railway lines, we are offered FTTC from a cabinet 2.8km away !!! download speeds on one line @ 8mb and the other 3mb upload speeds are 600k if we are lucky, we have a cabinet 315m from our gate and a BT trunk that runs past the end of the gate but they will not connect us...
We have even offered to pay for the Fibre from the cabinet to our premises only to be told by a "lovely lady" you DO NOT tell us where you want your connections from we tell you.
BT have a monopoly on the services and always have, so they just throw 2 fingers up to most and give the middle to the rest and the without teeth regulator.
We have looked at satellite as a back up but that has limitations...
Boffins find RAT-SIZED bug-muncher links man to beast
Cops seek 179mph net vid biker
Friday 31st August 2007 15:35 GMT
Re 179mph ?
We use MPH Mile Pints Lbs and all of the such like, that is until the BBC / SKY change us over via the backdoor or the EU force us to join the rest of the European wusses.
Mintyboy
Off to block the channel tunnel up and stop johnny foreigner getting in and making me drink a Kilo of Warm Beer ;)
