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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?
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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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"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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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
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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"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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"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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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 *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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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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"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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"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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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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BT
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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