FabSwingers.com forum: Who's your broadband provider

By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

and are they any good?

We are switching on the 25th, we are currently with sky but taking up the fibre2 package with BT instead for £29.99 a month and we won't be having the landline anymore because it's never used.

So many different options about it's hard to choose one.

Have you still got a landline?

Have a lovely day all.

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

I got virgin multiroom with every channel, Netflix, O2 sim and super fast broadband for £82/month. Bargain

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By *reyToTheFairiesWoman
over a year ago

Carlisle usually

I'm a cheap bitch and match providers for multiple services. Mobile phone and Internet from the same place for less than £40 a month for both combined, with free extras fed from each other too

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By *kiguy1234Man
over a year ago

Newport

I'm with Grain... 17 quid for 200mg upload and download... ok they are only in certain areas...but also price held for the next 2 years

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By *rC99Man
over a year ago

Liverpool

I switched to Plusnet full fibre a month ago and it's been great so far.

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By *inkyycurvyyWoman
over a year ago

Manchester

I've been with sky for about 3 months and service is a bit sketchy especially when trying to work from home

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Covent Garden

After 15 years with Virgin Media I moved over to Community Fibre just recently.

I'm paying for fibre into my house, £25 for 1Gb uplink/downlink. I'm averaging 925Mb uploads and downloads out of that 1,000Mb link. So far so good.

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By *LheadMan
over a year ago

Chester

Plusnet and they been great

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Switched to Plusnet from sky, been fine, no issues, and that's up here in the North of Scotland too where technology is hit and miss

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

"After 15 years with Virgin Media I moved over to Community Fibre just recently.

I'm paying for fibre into my house, £25 for 1Gb uplink/downlink. I'm averaging 925Mb uploads and downloads out of that 1,000Mb link. So far so good.

Ah, good to hear. I'm thinking of switching to them...

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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago

Derry

"I've been with sky for about 3 months and service is a bit sketchy especially when trying to work from home

I switched to sky in march and didn't have the best start with them. The speeds were all over the place for the first two months. Tech support were worse than useless until I told them I had been logging my speeds and if they were failing to deliver what they had agreed to then I would be leaving.

Maybe coincidence or teething problems but I'm getting what I'm paying for now.

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By *appycouple300Couple
over a year ago

North Dorset

Wessex Internet

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

I am with Virgin Media...

They used to be Telewest ... n sommat else ancient .. Anyway they've been virgin for sometime now.

I pay £21.00 reduced from fifty odd... They changed it not me .. I kept my landline despite it going digital. Not happy that if Virgin go down so will my land line.

I get the fastest what ever it is for my £21.00 and ALL the t.v's and stuff. That's how techy I am.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to be with EE but had to switch to BT as EE stopped their TV package. I had BT for 18 mths and it was shit service throughout. Mainly because we had a copper wire connection from the street cabinet to the house, although their customer service was appalling too. As they couldn’t say when we would get their fibre connection I switched to Virgin who installed fibre to the house for free in just two weeks, and I’ve been happy ever since.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"I got virgin multiroom with every channel, Netflix, O2 sim and super fast broadband for £82/month. Bargain

Glad you think so Rex

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By *ackDMissMorganCouple
over a year ago

Halifax

We recently switched to BT,it's been great so far

Jack works from home so needs a stable connection and we had Vodafone before ,which wasn't great.

We do have a landline ,but don't use it.

Miss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"and are they any good?

We are switching on the 25th, we are currently with sky but taking up the fibre2 package with BT instead for £29.99 a month and we won't be having the landline anymore because it's never used.

So many different options about it's hard to choose one.

Have you still got a landline?

Have a lovely day all.

I just dumped £50 a mnonth Virgin Internet only for Smarty 4G router and unlimited internet for £16 a month, it does the job, sign up through uswitch and get a Strong router for £60. I am about to move house so I don't need to do anything when I move it'll just work.

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

I'm with sky not had any problems and call me old fashioned but I still use a landline

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By *ixiePoisonWoman
over a year ago

Darlington

I've got virgin, broadband only now, got landline and tv taken out as they wanted to charge me £97 a month

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By *uckmonkeyMan
over a year ago

devon

"and are they any good?

We are switching on the 25th, we are currently with sky but taking up the fibre2 package with BT instead for £29.99 a month and we won't be having the landline anymore because it's never used.

So many different options about it's hard to choose one.

Have you still got a landline?

Have a lovely day all.

find bt are more expensive but in over 20 years I’ve only lost connection 2-3 times.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Now TV £22 a month

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By *eather_uktvTV/TS
over a year ago

Manchester

I was with sky for many years. Broadband, landline, TV package including sports. At the end of my contract the price rocketed so I contacted BT and they offered me a much better deal than sky at almost £30 a month cheaper. The package also included Netflix and Now TV. I also had multi room with sky and that was also included in the BY package too.

I stayed with BT for less than two weeks before scrapping my contract with them and going back to Sky, cap in hand, who incidently offered me a much better deal than they originally had.

My reason for getting rid of BT, who incidently gave me a full refund, they lied through their back teeth to get me to sign up.

Netflix and NOW TV were not included in the package and I would have had to pay extra for each of those two. The multi room quite simply didn't work. When I spoke to the BT engineer he told me the upstairs box has to be no more than five meters from the main box. I live in a modest three bed semi but for the two boxes to be within 5 meters of each other they virtually have to be in the same room. And to top it all, the picture quality on some of the TV channels was awful, particularly the sport channel.

When I poned them to complain they admitted I had been sold the wrong package. They didn't go as far as admitting they had lied to me about the Netflix and NOW TV package but they offered me a full refund and cancelled my contract there and then.

One more thing, I still have my landline with Sky but it costs me absolutely nothing. I can receive incoming calls but I have to pay for all outgoing calls, about 12p per minute but my mobile contract includes unlimited calls and texts, so I just use my mobile to make calls.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Need to change as currently over paying with Virgin but hate haggling with suppliers and having more wires coming in to the flat

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Vodafone.

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By *erces LetiferMan
over a year ago

Somewhere off the edge of the map... 'ere there be monsters

I've lost track / count with the amount of times we've switched. All I know is that they're shit. Been losing connection all day. I bet during the week when I'm at work it's fine...

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Virgin fastest o e they do as daughter works from home canceled the land line and TV package as use fire stick £45 a month x

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By *heikyerboutiMan
over a year ago

Hinckley

Virgin 1Gb, been with them since they were NTL.

Currently paying £45/month after bitching to them about their costs/my brand loyalty recently.

I'll look at Community Fibre once the contract is up in 12 months though.

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

The hamlet I live in was too far from the telephone exchange for broadband down the phone line to work, and there was no fibre, either, so we use a microwave connection through a small roof-mounted receiver/transmitter dish provided by Quickline Communications. I have a VOIP landline, but never use it so am going to cancel that.

Fibre has recently been installed to a roadside cabinet, but it would still have to be copper wire to the house, as the cabinet is half a mile from here, and half of that is the driveway from the road to the house.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We’re with sky. I’m not sure exactly how much we pay but it’s around £50 a month, that’s without the tv package.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I swapped from Virgin to Mumsnet Full Fibre and it's changed my life.

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By *asterR and slut mayaMan
over a year ago

Bradford

"and are they any good?

We are switching on the 25th, we are currently with sky but taking up the fibre2 package with BT instead for £29.99 a month and we won't be having the landline anymore because it's never used.

So many different options about it's hard to choose one.

Have you still got a landline?

Have a lovely day all.

"
. I used to be with talk talk cost 44pound a mth it now costs

Me 8quid as part of my mobile package by simply tethering to my phone

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Covent Garden

"After 15 years with Virgin Media I moved over to Community Fibre just recently.

I'm paying for fibre into my house, £25 for 1Gb uplink/downlink. I'm averaging 925Mb uploads and downloads out of that 1,000Mb link. So far so good.

Ah, good to hear. I'm thinking of switching to them..."

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Go for it YOLO. I would recommend them.

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By *ittle Miss TinkerbellWoman
over a year ago

your head

EE fiber £32 a month.

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By *ittle Miss TinkerbellWoman
over a year ago

your head

"EE fiber £32 a month. "

And I've never had a landline.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Full faber to the house 1gbps but I would suggest not going over 500mps as I haven’t really found a place that utilises my full bandwidth

Mobile caps out at the 600mbps rage tv cap at 400mbps Xbox is caped at 700mbps

Most place don’t have the server bandwidth to accommodate my full speed

So for anyone thinking off getting it would probably suggest the 500mbps one save the money

I know when my 2 year contact is up I be downgrading the package or in less servers catch up other wise I paying a premium for wasted bandwidth

Also I would suggest looking at what you do with the internet if it’s just watching Netflix and tv and browsing web pages and such

You really don’t need over 250mbps

250+ only comes in handy if you downloading stuff like games and such

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By *acktopervMan
over a year ago

Stourport-On-Severn

For years and years i was with Zen Internet using 80/20 FTTC. About 5 months ago i noticed a Fibre Heroes van at the bottom of the road laying fibre. I registered with them to be notified when the fibre went live. Was emailed 3 months months ago to say it was now live and could be ordered, along with a list of their ISP's. Signed up with IDNET and now have 500/500 FTTP for £36 a month. Cancelled my landline now as well because like most people, i never use it.

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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago

taunton

BT is a very corrupt organisation, you agree a contract then when the bill comes in it is always vastly more than you agreed then you have to spend hours trying to sort it out.

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