CityFibre is going to be cheaper, more reliable, and with faster upload speeds as standard. Many of the ISPs on the CityFibre network also have no annual price increases and much better customer service than Virgin have.
Virgin is one of them companies which is only really good for faster internet if you have no other choice. But much of their network isn't full fibre and can't really compete with what is now available elsewhere.
CityFibre although they arent an ISP just a network provider.
CityFibre are better if you can get them, they have lower latency, less disconnects, symmetric speeds and are cheaper. I say that as an ex-Virgin Media customer for 20 years.
Is this a joke, there's only one winner? Virgin are expensive and terribly unreliable (and obviously lie about using fibre optic [in 90% of places]), I see more complaints about them than any other ISP on local fb groups, and is my own experience too. OR are more expensive (than cf) and asychronous speeds. CF are cheaper and syncronous speeds. No competition at all.
I'm in my 3rd year of Vodafone 900mbps for £26pm. (edited)
There was a time when I would've championed Virgin Media. Ignoring their customer service & prices they only offer asychronous connections - usually with the upload being only 10% of the download speed. Not much use in this day & age when plenty of newer ISPs offer symmetric speeds. I have cancelled my subscription with them (they also offer no loyalty discounts - I have been with them from the beginning (NTL before VM bought them over - so that's at least 25 years now). hotukdeals.com/dis…942 Sadly there are no other ISPs worth switching to for me (I no longer have a copper connection to the house & can only get a 4G signal) (edited)
It will be easier to decide if you remove Virgin from the equation completely. I was with Virgin for years and moved back in October to Community Fiber and I have to admit I wish I had done it sooner and the plus is that my sons who game as much happier as the ping times are like 20 times lower.
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sorted byVirgin is one of them companies which is only really good for faster internet if you have no other choice. But much of their network isn't full fibre and can't really compete with what is now available elsewhere.
CityFibre are better if you can get them, they have lower latency, less disconnects, symmetric speeds and are cheaper. I say that as an ex-Virgin Media customer for 20 years.
I'm in my 3rd year of Vodafone 900mbps for £26pm. (edited)
hotukdeals.com/dis…942
Sadly there are no other ISPs worth switching to for me (I no longer have a copper connection to the house & can only get a 4G signal) (edited)