Moving home - upgrade or cancel Sky or go with Virgin?

[TheFungle]

Home move is rapidly approaching and I have to decide to move out existing Sky HD package, upgrade to Q or switch to Virgin.

Currently have Broadband, Box Sets and general entertainment, comes in around £65 pm as being honest I've been lazy with changing the deal.

A quick browse suggests that as a new customer (would change name to wife's on house move) I'd get the above but with Sky Q 2TB, unlimited fibre and an additional multi room box for £80pm, quite a bit extra considering no sports or movies.

Virgin are offering similar for £55pm but TBH I'm unconvinced on them, reliability wise Sky have never let me down.

[RedTrident]

I've recently got rid of the virgin TiVo box and gone Sky Q. From a user exerpience there is no comparison. Sky is a million times better to navigate than virgin.

[Big Pants]

It is, although the new Virgin box is a massive advance speed-wise on the old one.

If you're in a Virgin cable area, go with Virgin. You'll get better speed, availability and reliability. If it's not fibre to the door, go with the best deal. You'll need to threaten to leave/leave to keep this each year anyway, whoever the provider.

[mannyo]

We left virgin media as we got fed up with their traffic management policies and poor upload speeds when compared to BT Infinity or even Sky.

If you are choosing entry level products be very aware of Virgin Media traffic management for both download and upload speeds

If you are choosing a premium product be aware they traffic manage upload speeds which may or may not be an issue to you.

https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traf...

https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traf...

[Big Al.]

RedTrident said:

I've recently got rid of the virgin TiVo box and gone Sky Q. From a user exerpience there is no comparison. Sky is a million times better to navigate than virgin.

Virgin Tivo setup is bloody dire to say the least, Sky Q any day of the week, OK Q still a few minor glitches with the box but nothing serious.

Final word on Virgin Tivo from a users POV =

All IMHO of course.

[Moily]

Agree with the posters above. Moved to Virgin when we moved into current house a couple of years ago. After being used to the user-friendliness of the SkyHD system the Virgin TiVo was a massive shock to the system. How that got past any form of QA is beyond me. Horrendous to use and had a negative impact on the WAF.

Thankfully they (rather stupidly, imo) imposed a price increase of a couple of quid within a couple of months which gave us the get-out clause to terminate the 24 month contract and return to Sky. Phew!!

We kept Virgin broadband as there's no Infinity where we are and VM BB is decent but the only downside is that the SuperHub can't cope with SkyQ too well.