As a Virgin Media customer for some time now, and having previously worked for ISPs, I think I can say with some reasonable confidence that VM are a really real

As a Virgin Media customer for some time now, and having previously worked for ISPs, I think I can say with some reasonable confidence that VM are a really really mediocre ISP. I almost admire how mediocre they are - they do just enough to keep people on their service and because they've done the work of laying cable to all the houses in an area, there's little incentive for OpenReach to lay fibre in those areas. I live in London and I can get Gigabit from VM (although only download, their upload is a pathetic 50Mb/s) so OpenReach has just left this area on crappy old copper phone lines and my alternative is <10Mb/s from DSL. It sucks and I hate it and I have absolutely no choice in the matter. Thanks capitalism! ;) Edit: Fun fact, VM is owned by Liberty Global, who have thus far rolled out IPv6 on their other ISPs using DS-Lite (where you get a routable v6 address, but your v4 address is behind Carrier Grade NAT). I saw this and decided to switch to VM's business service so I could get a static v4 address.... turns out they just connect normally over the residential network and then do a GRE tunnel to the other side of the country for the static addressing, and their crappy router will just randomly stop routing packets over the GRE tunnel after a couple of weeks, requiring a reset of the router.