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The Ultimate guide to Virgin Media and photos of VM Hardware

As a student, you’re gonna be watching a lot of TV no doubt. There’s a few different choices you can go for…you can either stick with the standard 5 terrestrial channels. You could go for freeview…you could even get sky. However, the most popular method for a student is usually Virgin Media (used to be NTL). The reason for this is that they usually do a whole package where you get broadband and phone too. Although it has to be said, no one ever really uses the phone!

Remember, Virgin Media requires that you sign up for a 12 month contract to recieve its services. However, the main problem with this is that student lets are usually 11 months. This means you will either have to pay for an extra moth whilst your not living there, or one of the salesmen told me a couple of techniques to get out of a contract early - if you’re interested in finding out then drop a comment below and I’ll reveal all.

In order to see their pricing etc and to check whether or not you can get Virgin Media at your new student house, then goto their website at virginmedia.com.

I’ve had NTL once (was NTL before being Virgin Media) and I’ve had Virgin Media for one year too. They use nearly identicle hardware, the only real difference is the branding and user interface. Both times the package we got was for Broadband (4mb), home phone (never used) and for their digital TV.

The broadband is great because unlike most other providers which cap your connection (e.g. they give you 30gig a month) they instead offer unlimited access within fair use guidelines. If you are seen to be downloading too much then rather than cut you off, they will just lower your download speeds for a bit which is a much better solution than cutting you off like the others will. The broadband also offers really good speeds up to 20 meg depending on how much you want to spend monthly.

We never used the phone we got with it, the only reason we got it is because it made the package cheaper per month funnily enough. We all had mobile phones so we used them instead.

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