I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract • Hacker News Board

Re: I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract

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Post by dogma1138 » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #141

dogma1138 wrote: post #140

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Yes but this is extremely expensive even with the cheats. G.Network costs me £22 a month for 1gig no caps, there is another small fee for a real IP address since pretty much all FTTP providers use CGNAT.

I'm really surprised they'd be using CGNAT. Do they offer IPv6 at least?

Yes they do, HyperOptic, G.Networks and Cerberus use CGNAT by default most of the smaller ISPs in the U.K. too do that now ever the largest take on new customers on some packages mostly the bundles via CGNAT.

That said the cost of a real IP address is £5 a month with HyperOptic and I think 40 or £50 a year with G.Network so it’s still cheaper than a VDSL connection despite being 15 times faster unless you are in the 200mbit areas of BT.

Re: I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract

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Post by baby » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 12:01 AM UTC

cortesoft wrote: post #55

baby wrote: post #45

I’m not sure what that fuss is about. I just stop paying whenever I run into these kind of issues. It’s easier than what people think. I wanted to cancel my gym membership and they wouldn’t let me before I finished my year membership. So I just stopped paying. Some numbers were calling me but I never answer unknown numbers.

Have you checked your credit rating recently?

yeah and it's fine, honestly I don't care if it takes a bit of a dip, don't want to be a slave of that credit score and I'm not planning to get a mortgage.

Re: I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract

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Post by Nextgrid » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

bnastic wrote: post #147

Nextgrid wrote: post #100

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> The UK broadband is in such an appalling state, that if you want better than ADSL you have to subject yourself to humiliation Agreed, it is terrible. I ended up going with an enterprise-grade leased line that costs ~400£/month because that was the only choice besides Virgin, but honestly I'd rather be paying that much and know it pays fair wages to honest people then pay less but having it go in scammers' pockets.…

Paying the equivalent of someone’s mortgage just to be able to get a decent internet connection in 2020 is infuriating. I would switch to Hyperoptic in a heartbeat but they are not rolling out to north London any time soon. Funny how in Scotland even Vodafone is rolling out a gig network, while in bloody London I still can’t get better than adsl speeds.

If you own your property (or are able to install an antenna), I wonder if you can find someone in a serviced area to which you have line-of-sight that's willing to set up a point-to-point wireless link?