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About Virgin Media
Virgin Media are the only cable operator in the UK. Offering high speed broadband, digital TV (including SKY Sports and movies) and telephone services over fibre optic cable. There are some great bundle deals if you require more than one product.
Broadband and Phone Bundles
Broadband Only Deals
- Broadband size L 10Mb is £15 a month for the first 6 months (£20 thereafter) - more details here
- Superfast 20Mb Broadband XL £10 a month for 3 months and then £20 a month (with a phone line) - more details here
- Fastest Ever 50Mb broadband is only £15.00 for the first 3 months then £28.00 thereafter with a phone bundle. Or £33.00 for 3 months then £38.00 for broadband only.
Its worth noting Virgin Media packages have Unlimited downloads with no monthly cap. The fair usage policy will kick in if you download loads in an evening by throttling your connection. But with the rising use of services like the BBC iPlayer unlimited downloads are a good feature.
Virgin Media | 10Mb Broadband
- price
- £5.00 1st 3 mths then £12.50
- speed
- 10Mbs
- monthly cap
- unlimited
- getting started
- wireless modem included
- contract length
- 12 months
- features
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- No download limits
- PCguard** - online protection for your PC
- Your own email account (with up to 15 addresses)
- Space online to create your own web site
- Help when you need it, online and on the phone
Our opinion.
Virgin Media's basic deal is now a really fast 10Mb download speed. Unlimited download allowance (fair use applies) and a wireless moden router is included. When taken with a Virgin phone line at £11.99 a month 10Mb broadband is £5.00 for 3 months and then £12.50. Available without a phone line at £15.00 mth.
Virgin Media | 20Mb Broadband
- price
- £10.00 1st 3 months then £20.00
- speed
- 20Mbs
- monthly cap
- unlimited
- getting started
- Free wireless router
- contract length
- 12 months
- features
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- Up to 20Mb and no download limits
- Free Wireless Router
- No phone line required
- Download a music track? in under 2 seconds
- Perfect for streaming videos and online gaming browsing
- PCguard Total - online protection for your PC with anti-virus, firewall, pop-up blocker, privacy manager, anti-spyware, parental control and theft protection
- Space online to create your own web site
- Help when you need it, online and on the phone
Our opinion.
Virgin Media's 20Mb broadband deal with no download limits (fair use applies), super fast and good for online gaming or sharing amongst several PC's at home. 20Mb is only £10.00 1st 3 months then £20.00 when taken with a phone line at £11.99. Or broadband only for £25.00 a month for 3 months and then £30.00 thereafter.
Virgin Media | 50Mb Broadband
- price
- £15 1st 3 mths then £28
- speed
- 50Mbs
- monthly cap
- unlimited
- getting started
- Wireless N Router included
- contract length
- 12 months
- features
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- The fastest broadband available, download an album in 11 seconds
- Up to 50Mb broadband with unlimited downloads (fair use applies)
- A wireless N router and adaptor
- Free PCguard internet security (Not suitable for Macs)
- Over £300 a year of free online goodies
Our opinion.
Currently the fastest broadband available with a 50Mb download speed. Super fast download speed great for gaming, watching video online or share amongst several PCs in your home. 50Mb broadband is £15.00 for the 1st 3 months then £28.00 when taken with a Virgin phone line at £11.99 mth. Or without the phone for £33.00 for 3 months then £38.00.
Virgin Media | Best value bundle Broadband, Phone, TV
- price
- £18.00
- speed
- 10Mbs
- monthly cap
- unlimited
- getting started
- FREE wireless modem
- contract length
- 12 months
- features
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- No download limits
- 60 top channels including Sky1, LIVING, BBC, Discovery and heaps more
- Free Catch Up TV - catch up on the last 7 days' telly including BBC iPlayer, 4 On Demand, ITV Net Player and more.
- 10GB of online storage
- 10 free photo prints each month
- Unlimited weekend calls to UK landline numbers
- Remember when you switch to Virgin Media there's no need for a BT landline.
Our opinion.
A great value bundle includes broadband, telephone and digital TV. 10Mb broadband with unlimited downloads, Unlimited weekend UK landline calls, and Over 60 digital TV channels. £18.00 a month (£11.99 line rental). Online offer only.
Reviews for Virgin Media
Lovely and Fast
4 star rating
Virgin have recently updated my broadband to 10Mb and it really is quick, much better than the previous 2Mb I was getting. The good thing about cable is the speed does not decrease as you get further from the exchange. Speedtest.net is giving me a consistent 9.73Mb.
Peter T: Reading (17 April 2010)
Fast and great service
5 star rating
My 10mb connection regularly tests at 9.6mb on download so no issues at all with speed. Streaming media is great. Not had an outage (except for a supplied faulty modem) and that problem was rectified promptly. Highly recommended.
Mike Hind: Mirfield (15 April 2010)
Not worth a single penny
2 star rating
Like most students in Plymouth we went with Virgin and like most other students, we regretted it within a month of signing up!
It is near impossible to watch BBC iPlayer, it took me over an hour to do a 16mb update of my antivirus, and the time when the internet is fastest is usually around 3am!
We opted for the 50mb package and we're lucky if we get anything near 2mb. We did a couple of speed checks online and they were coming up as though we were using dial up!!!
The worst part is that they told us it would be fixed by the end of February - that was in November, and it's still utter shit to this day.
Would I recommended Virgin Media? Never! (unless you do what one person did and say that he would only pay for when he had good service - at the moment he's got a £50 credit note as they haven't had to pay a penny for months!)
I actually miss having AOL dial-up
DB: Plymouth (28 February 2010)
Don't Make the Same Mistake I Made
1 star rating
Don't use this company, they charge you for things they give to you for free, cannot resolve any matters unless in writting with the headoffice, speed is poor, service is poor, as above i never thought I would say this, but AOL is better, which makes virgin media total wank.
Phil: K Town - UK (27 January 2010)
Slow speed
1 star rating
I've recently switched from a BT 2mb connection to a 20mb virgin media connection and have been very dissapointed, I'm lucky to get 200kb/s download speed and get capped to below 100kb/s after about 5 mins of downloading anything. It takes the mick that I'm dishing out £30 a month and am getting slower speeds than i was with a 2mb connection, sort it out Virgin.
anonymous: Stafford (27 January 2010)
Virgin 20MB Slower Than Dial-Up
1 star rating
Had Virgin in a month - VIP Package - and the broadband is useless - that's 20MB of pure kack. While writing this, I'm getting an average download speed of 27.4KB/Sec! My dial-up connection 10 years ago was quicker than that! They've had me reset ALL the computers in the whole house, stop/start/unplug/turn off/turn on modem repeatedly, download overnight - at that speed you'd be up all night. I can pick up an UNSECURED network and get 800+ KB/Sec...So what's Virgin's problem ...USELESS...USELESS...USELESS...You'd get more help from smashing your head with a brick ...USELESS...USELESS...Oh, their only getting a 1 star rating because I can't post this without it! They should have an option for MINUS STARS. I'll repeat: SLOWER DOWNLOAD SPEED THAN DIAL-UP AND THAY DO NOTHING ABOUT IT!
fedfingup: london (14 October 2009)
50 Mb you have to be kidding
1 star rating
What a pile of crap. 50Mb my aunt fanny. Slow as hell. Some days I get as much as 7mb. Other days I 1mb. Web pages are slow to load. Some file downloads are quick but getting to the web page to click on the link to download is problematic. I am guessing they are port throttling.
Horrible arrogant 50Mb staff and customer service teams are blinkered and out of touch with the customer. Billing systems are out of sync with the payments. I got a £10 fine for non payment when I looked online. I got the bill 5 days later. Try sending me the amount. Good job I looked online. Dont go for paperless billing, you cant trust them to do the job.
Stuart Evans: West Midlands (17 September 2009)
fast as hell
5 star rating
fast as hell, i pay for 20mb and get 20mb
with bt i paid for 8mb and lucky if i got 2mb..
well done virgin
can't wait for my 50mb connection! :)
paul: salford - near manchester (11 August 2009)
What a useless ISP.
3 star rating
Worst ISP I have ever been on.
I paid for a 10MB download speed. To be honest I expected to get around 7MB, but I get... 2MB.
That's right, 2MB. And this isn't even during peak times. Jesus, if you play games online during peak times on this connection, then say goodbye to your sanity. You'll be left screaming wondering why it's so crap.
Also, the speed caps are crap too. Now, I play a lot of online games. If I play or download too much BAM, I have 0.5MB internet for the rest of the day. If I still download too much, I will have 128kb internet FOR EIGHT DAYS!
It makes you scared to use your internet.
Peak times change daily too, yesterday peak times were 1pm to 12am. Day before that, 3pm to 11pm. Today 11am to 12am. That was the last straw, so I switched to O2.
What a useless ISP.
AOL are better... now that's bad.
Michael: Belfast (21 July 2009)
Virgin Media? More like Virgin Bullshit
3 star rating
Crap from day one. From the day it was installed our broadband has been slow or just not working all all. Phoned customer service on one ocasion ant they told us to take our computer to a shop and have windows re-installed! 20 mins later the net started working again and our computer was fine. Only time Virgin offered us any help was when the 1 year contract was up and we handed in our notice to leave, then they sent out an engineer to sort things out. Because of the crap service they gave us 3 months free to get us to stay, once that 3 months is up we are gone as the service is still shit. Service is either slow or not working at all. Would i recomend Virgin NOT IN A MILLION YEARS.
steve: Plymouth (07 May 2009)