{"id":1960,"date":"2014-11-01T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2018-02-02T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T14:02:25","slug":"virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"Virgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it has come to this\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>My woes with BT\/Openreach with regards to upgrading have met an impasse &#8211; well, not strictly an impasse in the broadest meaning of the word &#8211; but they are at a point where I probably can have fibre delivered via the BT\/Openreach infrastructure, however I have to find nearly \u00a318,000 for the privilege. To me that&#8217;s an impasse, others may argue &#8211; but I&#8217;m going to argue.<\/p>\n<p>So words aside, Virgin &#8211; I have no choice, if I want fast broadband at a price where I don&#8217;t have to re-mortgage then that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>So from the 22nd of November I shall be getting it installed.   Now why do you need to know, you don&#8217;t &#8211; but those that know me can now laugh at me &#8211; because this was never going to happen!<\/p>\n<p>The Zen ADSL connection will still be kept open and i&#8217;m only using Virgin for the Broadband &#8211; no phone or TV.  I&#8217;m not even touching their email system as it&#8217;s <del datetime=\"2014-11-01T13:01:39+00:00\">spied on by<\/del> powered via Google Gmail.  Just need to work out the routing for the email back to Zen now!<\/p>\n<p>\/edit 2\/2\/2018 (a few years late &#8211; but oh well) &#8211; Virgin lasted 3 weeks.   They were shit, 50mb &#8216;fibre&#8217; was outperformed on Youtube by my 5mb ADSL.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it has come to this\u2026.. My woes with BT\/Openreach with regards to upgrading have met an impasse &#8211; well, not strictly an impasse in the broadest meaning of the word &#8211; but they are at a point where I probably can have fibre delivered via the BT\/Openreach infrastructure, however I have to find nearly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virgin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[353,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}