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igob8a · 04-21-08

Interesting video o.0

pauldovi · 04-21-08

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Originally Posted by Odyn

Horrible. Imagine if your internet company threw net neut out the window and slowed all your connections to certain webpages by 10-15 seconds per pop. Or even more... or they only trickled data to your IP because you are a heavy user of certain high-bandwidth webpages... then imagine one of those paying websites being something like conanthebarbarian.com, something 0.0000001% of the internet will actually goto, whereas google, youtube, OCN all have connection problems or their websites are running slow because they didnt pony up extra dough for more bandwidth.

Maybe what im saying is a bit exaggerated, but I can totally seeing greedy ISPs doing it. Comcast tried it but failed, lets see who else does it -_-

You know why they failed? Not because of government intervention... because of free market. Freedom of choice is a power force. When allowed to act, tamper free, freedom will achieve wonderful results that no artificial "management" can achieve.

Whenever government gets involved prices go up, quality and choice go down. Although it seems like the obvious choice from a quick glance, careful study will reveal it is not so. Never look at the small picture.

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Originally Posted by RickJS

You didn't understand what he said. He doesn't agree with the companies, but if net neutrality wins like we want, that means the government will have to regulate it and he would rather it be with neither.

Meanwhile I agree with net neutrality because if its either comcast or the government I'm going with the government. We have more of a say there than the companies.

This is simply not true. Companies react far faster to the demands of their customers than government does to the demand of the people. Companies, when in real, unregulated competition, will increase the quality and reduce the price of their product.

"Net Neutrality" is a misnomer, a play on words, designed to sound appealing. Give it some careful consideration and study the effects of similar legislation in history.

voice · 04-21-08

Yep. Virgin is a POS company, which is why we switched from them to Sky. Don't know if Sky is much better, but at least with them we get some ****ing customer service. It took Virgin 3 weeks to come and fix our internet, and even then my dad had to phone up a lot.

****ing ridiculous.

biatchi · 04-21-08

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Originally Posted by antd

screw virgin, who uses them anyway :P 24Mbit Be (O2)

Sadly I do

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Originally Posted by jobo112

Well with their broadband/digital TV/telephone deals they are starting to get a lot more popular.

They just offered me a :turd:hot deal as well but looks like I may have to tell them to go screw themselves with it.

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Originally Posted by binormalkilla

They're smart by starting the video with a hot brunette as well.

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Originally Posted by Mr.MidЯange

I had trouble listening. I was staring at her boobs.

They should have had more of her she's cute as hell and that rack could end wars (probably

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Originally Posted by voice

Yep. Virgin is a POS company, which is why we switched from them to Sky. Don't know if Sky is much better, but at least with them we get some ****ing customer service. It took Virgin 3 weeks to come and fix our internet, and even then my dad had to phone up a lot.

****ing ridiculous.

My gf is with them and they suck quite badly, Her net worked fine for a few weeks then it stopped and they didn't get her back online for about 3months despite a bazillion calls to call centers located anywhere where English is at best a 3rd language.

Somewhat ironically they were trialling 50m broadband at the backed of last year, Lol
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3...and-trial.html

Clinic · 04-21-08

Well since the

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(Athene is the world record holder in all three powerleveling disciplines, 1-60, 1-70, 60-70)

said so, it must be gospel!...

And the chick in the vid is hot.

Nuff said.

*Edit
And look on the bright side! They might not be able to fix your internet, but they can spend your money and build a space ship! ...*cough*...

Fusion Racing · 04-21-08

i so hope they get what is coming to them... they are pretty much the worst company i have ever heard of - and i unfortunatly ended up paying them a lot of money to actually cancel the 12 month contract i had signed up to. Worst ISP there is basically.

Scroll down: http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php - also, read the comments on virgin - they pretty much sum up all the problems with them.

Personally i changed to Be on the 15th this month and its amazing in comparison.

Logit · 04-21-08

ah :turd: im with them on there 20mbit package, thankfully im downgrading today

cognoscenti · 04-21-08

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(Athene is the world record holder in all three powerleveling disciplines, 1-60, 1-70, 60-70) ~Thanks nilpferdkoenig.

almost fell out of my chair when i read that....lol

biatchi · 04-21-08

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Originally Posted by Fusion Racing

i so hope they get what is coming to them... they are pretty much the worst company i have ever heard of - and i unfortunatly ended up paying them a lot of money to actually cancel the 12 month contract i had signed up to. Worst ISP there is basically.

Scroll down: http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php - also, read the comments on virgin - they pretty much sum up all the problems with them.

Personally i changed to Be on the 15th this month and its amazing in comparison.

The strange things is I've been with Telewest/virgin since early 2000 and I've never had a problem with them at all, I think the longest I haven't been able to download pron errrrr i mean get on the net for is about 15 hours and that was back on dial up. It does seem that Under Virgin they are trying to roger us(their customers) HARD though

Unstableiser · 04-21-08

I already moved from Virgin's stupid contract full of 'bollocks' fair-usage policies and high prices, on Orange now.

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