[mythtv-users] Moving house: service options in the UK?

[Steve Smith]

Similar situation here...

  Virgin Telewest On a PACE 4001 box.
  Telewest broadband
  Telewest phone.

Once they've got it installed (and that's by no means a simple operation),
it tends to work OKish.
The phone service is not so hot though, we've had it disappear for days on
end, in the first few weeks they changed our number
without telling us, you dial some numbers and get through to the wrong
number (consistently) and have to use your mobile...

Broadband seems OK, though I'm not sure if they are filtering port 80
(incoming)...

The new FREE "CatchUpTV" service is quite good, saves using the PVR on a few
occasions.

Cheers

Steve


On 13/06/07, David Campbell <dave at cpfc.org> wrote:
>
> John Pilkington wrote:
> > I shall shortly be moving from a house where I get marginal DVB-T
> > reception and broadband access via a USB modem and a conventional phone
> > line.
> >
> > The new location has Virgin cable, a Sky dish and a terrestrial antenna,
> > but currently no conventional telephone line.
> >
> > I am told that Virgin media can provide a telephone service, broadband
> > internet access (I think via an ethernet modem), and TV via a set-top
> > box or via a rented V+ (Virgin branded) PVR, but that it does not
> > provide a computer compatible digital TV signal.
> >
> > I haven't seen much trustworthy-looking info about Virgin/Linux
> > compatibility on the web and would welcome any comments from this list,
> > on both that and MythTV/Sky interaction - mainly, at least initially,
> > the free channels.
>
> Of course you will probably get a PVR from Virgin when you sign up.
>
> Shocking company by the way - I'd buy a 3G datacard before getting
> internet from them.
>
> /cue endless posts saying NTL are great.
>
> Dave
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