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Isn't It About Time You Upgraded Your Broadband?

With so much of our life now being lived online, it's important that our broadband can cope with all our demands.

With the rise of the "Solopreneur", broadband has never been so crucial. It's also extremely important for families. Watching films, ordering food and downloading music are now commonplace in most households.

If your broadband has been under-performing and causing you nothing but stress, then maybe it's time to look at changing your current provider.

The Future of Broadband

Most people are still using broadband that runs through a copper wire, although this may be great for some people, it’s too slow and unreliable for most. The future of the Internet will see every household eventually moving over to fibre optic cable. Fibre optic cable offers speeds of up to 100Mb. The information is carried by light, through strands of glass, which are as thin as a hair. You'll never be able to reach those speeds with traditional telephone copper wire.

Choosing a Broadband Package

One company that currently offers this high speed, superfast and highly reliable broadband is Virgin Media. Their packages really are second to none. With Virgin Media Services you'll have the ability to choose a package that best suits you.

Virgin Media currently offers a selection of high-speed broadband packages, these include:

Up to 30mb - This is the ideal choice for individuals or couples. Films, Television shows and music albums can all be downloaded within 5 minutes. This package is 3 times the UK average.

Up to 60mb - The perfect choice for families. At 6 times the UK average, you're able to download films, television shows and music albums all within 3 minutes.

Up to 100mb - This is the ultimate package in broadband. This is 10 times the UK average. This is the perfect choice for any heavy Internet user. It's the perfect choice for people who work from home. Conference calls and meetings will run without a glitch.

Choosing a TV package

Virgin Media not only offers, possibly the best broadband on the market, they also offer some of the best TV packages around. Not so long ago, if you wanted to have a large selection of channels you had to go with Sky, but is no longer the case. Digital TV from Virgin Media offers a massive choice of channels and different packages.

Virgin currently offers a choice of 3 TV packages. All three packages include the basic digital channels, such as BBC HD, FilmFour and Dave. All TV packages are also 3D ready, so there's no need to change you package if you decide to invest in a new 3D TV.

The 3 packages are M+, L and XL. Below is a brief description of where they vary.

M+ - 80 plus channels (6 HD Channels)
700 Hours of Catch Up TV
1500 Hours of TV on Demand

L - 120 plus channels (6 HD channels)
700 Hours of Catch Up TV
1900 Hours of TV on Demand
Pause, Rewind and Record Live TV
250 Hours Recording Capacity

XL - 175 plus channels (24 HD Channels)
700 Hours of Catch Up TV
2500 Hours of TV on Demand
Pause, Rewind and Record Live TV
500 Hours Recording Capacity

All Virgin TV packages can be upgraded to include premium channels as well. This includes sports channels such as Sky Sports One, Two and Three as well as ESPN. There's also a great selection of premium movie channels such as Sky Movies One and Two.

There's also the ability to watch the latest film releases with pay per view movies. Many live events can also be watched with Virgin Media.

Whatever provider you're currently with, you could be getting so much more, unless of course, you're already with Virgin. So why not visit the Virgin store and type in your postcode to see what services are currently available in your area.