Best broadband (bang for buck)

[Ihavenojob]

 

[Mottie]

Did anyone in this thread go for Community Fibre in the end? My mums Vodafone contract has expired and I’m looking to switch her to Community Fibre. £14.95 installation fee (to run the cable to the house I assume) and £25 per month for 150Mbps and anytime landline and mobile calls.

 

[JohnD]

Been in touch with Community fibre, and will be switching to them.

I want to do that, as Virgin is so expensive and they refuse to offer me a cheaper deal

But although the fibre ducts were laid in my street last summer, they have not yet put any cables down.

I think Virgin know that, so they think I'm on their hook. Bunch of bastds. So I will be off like a shot.

Round here, copper to cabinet runs about 70 Mbps, which is adequate for most needs.

 

[Brigadier]

Could you just get a Three thingy, that uses mobile signals rather than cables?

At least if you prove that up, it's a bargaining chip against VM....

 

[Brigadier]

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[securespark]

Zen internet is Which? rated. Their customer score is 81%.

They don't service all areas, but if they are worth looking into.

 

[Brigadier]

As an aside, I went to collect second-born from work, a couple of nights ago.

Out of interest, I did a speed test on my new, 5g phone (finally retired the old u11+)..

300mbps

 

[Brigadier]

More than 4x better than my home broadband, I think

 

[Mottie]

More than 4x better than my home broadband, I think

Same here with my phone. I sacked off the phone line in the workshop when lockdowns started, when I’m up there now, I run the PC and the TV firestick through my personal hotspot on my phone over 5G and they are faster than I ever had with the landline.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Did anyone in this thread go for Community Fibre in the end? My mums Vodafone contract has expired and I’m looking to switch her to Community Fibre. £14.95 installation fee (to run the cable to the house I assume) and £25 per month for 150Mbps and anytime landline and mobile calls.

I switched, been with CF a few weeks. Installation was fine, new cable/wire (very thin) from telephone pole to the house. Broadband is faster (according to speed tests) but can't notice any real difference in day to day use. Only issue I have is that my home phone can't receive incoming calls. I can call out to my mobile and my mob will say incoming call from home, try and call back and it says number not recognised. Been on to them a few times about it, you get through to customer services easily, but so far it's not been resolved. Not a bad thing really as I didn't think we needed a land line, SWMBO did. The only downside is the TV package from Virgin was better than anything I can get at the moment, just waiting for my Humax Aura TV box to get here, that may give me more options for the TV. I went for the 1G with home phone and guaranteed WIFI in every room at £40 a month. This speed test I've just done is on my ancient PC, it's wired into a WIFI extender in the back room and the modem is in the front room.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Phone issue sorted, all tickety-boo at the moment.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Phone issue sorted, all tickety-boo at the moment.

Sorted mine with EE too. After a lengthy French trip, they had charged me £26 for roaming, despite a text they sent when I first arrived that intimated that my plan included calls to and from EU. After a fair bit of aggro, several calls with several EE people they refunded the £26 and let me have roaming included in my plan for same price.

Another Brexit success!

 

[JohnD]

The phone companies are making a determined attack on their customers at the moment, changing their contracts to force mid-term price increases that are specifically above inflation.

What a pity UK citizens have no strong organisation to give us consumer protection.