ESPN Free With Virgin XL

[yeo]

Just tell a friend about us, and when they connect to Virgin Media cable services we'll take £30 off your bill, and £30 off theirs too!

   £30 each Ginge?

[Ginginho]

  £30 each Ginge?

That sounds a good deal, i'll defo look into that!
Are you registered with them as Yeovil Red, Olive, Oevil Red, Yeovil Blue or Yeovil Black And White though?

[yeo]

If you Pm me your home adress and phone number I send them your contact details via the customer support thing,I understand if you dont fancy dioing that though.Actually i might already have your phone number.

[Ginginho]

If you Pm me your home adress and phone number I send them your contact details via the customer support thing,I understand if you dont fancy dioing that though.Actually i might already have your phone number.

Top man, just PM'ed you.
I've contacted Virgin and will let you know how I get on!

Edit: I think I messaged you, can you let me know if anything has come through?
It isn't showing in my outbox thingie...

[axs]

I'm now considering a virgin package as well, as it seems I can get some more TV in for what i currently pay for phone and broadband.

Anyone had trouble with virgin internet?

[jonny72]

Anyone had trouble with virgin internet?

It blows everyone else out of the water - you actually get the speed they advertise all the time.

I've never had any problems with any of my Virgin services. But then some people seem to have a complete nightmare though you can say the same about Sky. Only thing to bear in mind is you don't get any of the Sky Sports interactive services on Virgin and you get a lot more HD channels on Sky.

I'd recommend ringing Virgin and trying to negotiate a better deal than they advertise on their website, make sure you mention you're thinking of switching from Sky and you want a better deal than you're already getting. It worked for me recently, I told them I was going to switch to Sky and they knocked a few quid off - fortunately they weren't aware I can't get Sky where I live.

[Fred Elliot]

I'm now considering a virgin package as well, as it seems I can get some more TV in for what i currently pay for phone and broadband.

Anyone had trouble with virgin internet?

Its fucking ace..............................I would never go back to BT

[axs]

I don't have Sky, and BT deliver me perfect never-failing broad band which is why I'm concerned to switching to a worse service.

[jonny72]

I don't have Sky, and BT deliver me perfect never-failing broad band which is why I'm concerned to switching to a worse service.

Have you ever checked the speed you get? Unless you live on top of a BT exchange the chances are you'll not be getting anywhere near the speed they sold you. As its different technology, with Virgin you get the full speed.

You won't find many people moaning about Virgin broadband, it really does rock. Only way to get 50Mb at the moment as well, plus they're already testing 200Mb.

[axs]

Yes, BT deliver 15.3 MB/s to me.

To be honest 10 MB/s would do me fine so their M package would suffice.

[Fred Elliot]

I am on that fibre optic which in all honesty gives me the best porn streaming I have ever had

No more buffering here fella......oh no !

[axs]

I am on that fibre optic which in all honesty gives me the best porn streaming I have ever had

No more buffering here fella......oh no !

Those two statements seem to contradict one another.

[jayohaitchenn]

axs, you live right by an exchange so you probably already get a fantastic connection, but I can confirm that I've been a BY/NTL/Virgin customer for years and the connection is brilliant. Customer service has really improved from the early days as well.

[jonny72]

The new ESPN channel went live today. Pretty amazing the array of sports they've signed up for it in such a short space of time - football (EPL, SPL and the top leagues from Russia, Holland, Portugal, Germany and the USA), UFC, DTM and Aussie Rules. They've got the European basketball championship in September as well which might be worth a watch, the GB team is improving all the time with all the NBA players they've signed up.

Plus I can now watch at least some football in HD, which is good as sports look pretty average in SD on my plasma.

Really good news that they're keeping ESPN America going as a separate channel which they weren't planning to do originally. Add on ESPN Classic and I reckon Setanta going out of business is the best thing that's happened with sports coverage in years.

Nice for Sky to have some decent competition at long last, wouldn't surprise me if they are bricking it a bit now. Just a pity its a while before the Premier League rights are up for negotiation again - I can easily see ESPN going for at least 3 of the packages if not more.

I wonder if they'll be doing a UK Sports Centre show?

[tans]

Yeah, all 2 NBA players.

Luol Deng and Ben Gordon