Fibre internet questions

[d000hg]

If you're looking at Fibre, I agree with you these seem the best options however do check out PlusNet. The problem is they only offer unlimited with the 76Mbps version, on 38Mbps they have a 40Gb usage cap... but their 76Mbps is cheaper than BT. However BT offer unlimited 38Mbps fibre packages. Plusnet are substantially cheaper on like-for-like packages but you don't get BT sport "free".

If you want ADSL, plusnet are offering it for £3.99/month for 12 months, on a 12 month contract which seems a no-brainer.

Don't forget to check cashback sites if you're into that. TopCashBack are offering £100 to take a new plusnet contract and £40 for BT right now.

edit: I was primed to move ADSL to plusnet but Sky offered me unlimited 38Mbps fibre for £10/month as a current TV subscriber.

[NickFitz]

I've had cable, which is fibre, since we could get the Internet on it. I've had it here since I moved in.

Once it was NTL, now it's Virgin Media. Most of the time it works brilliantly. They upped it to a nominal 50Mbps earlier in the year, and it does that, nominally. They charge too much, but that's because they're a bunch of ***** who screw long-standing customers, like all providers.

I could chop and change, and maybe save £10 this year and £15 the next before I got re-screwed, but I'd still end up getting screwed, and I'd have all the hassle of choosing who to get screwed by.

As I'm going to get screwed anyway, I just let myself get screwed by them. It doesn't make any difference in the long run; I've been here ten years, and it's all just the same, but faster.

[Unix]

Can't believe someone in IT is still on old ADSL, Iv'e been on Fibre for 3 years now.

[blacjac]

Plusnet are substantially cheaper on like-for-like packages but you don't get BT sport "free".

Plusnet have recently started doing BT sport at half price. If that's what you are after it might swing it...

https://www.plus.net/tv/btsport/

[TheFaQQer]

I've had cable, which is fibre, since we could get the Internet on it. I've had it here since I moved in.

Once it was NTL, now it's Virgin Media. Most of the time it works brilliantly. They upped it to a nominal 50Mbps earlier in the year, and it does that, nominally. They charge too much, but that's because they're a bunch of ***** who screw long-standing customers, like all providers.

I could chop and change, and maybe save £10 this year and £15 the next before I got re-screwed, but I'd still end up getting screwed, and I'd have all the hassle of choosing who to get screwed by.

As I'm going to get screwed anyway, I just let myself get screwed by them. It doesn't make any difference in the long run; I've been here ten years, and it's all just the same, but faster.

This.

I tried the "give me a better deal or I'm off" line and they just said that they would take that as my 28 days notice and I'd better start talking to BT to get a line installed.

The thought of having to get a new line installed (I don't even know if there is a BT line into the property since it's been NTL since before we moved in 11 years ago) scares me, and I'm not sticking a satellite dish on the building.

[Smartie]

Odd. Just saved myself a couple of hundred quid for a call to Virgin to get a better deal. I guess if you're on £400/hour it might not be worth it though.

On the 'get Virgin to wire up your place' question - good luck with that, they're sweating current assets and customers, not installing new infrastructure.

[hyperD]

I've got Virgin FTTP and am lucky enough to have the cabinet just down my road. A 120Mbps service and I get 95Mbps on average. They're upgrading to 150+ and I suspect I will get 100-115Mpbs.

Fairly happy with the service but they have outages - last one was 12:30 the other day when I was playing online games, outage lasted 30 mins.

There's some dedicated fibre service that a CUKer mentioned a few days ago with 1Gbps but I suspect that could be quite fruitypricy.

[lilelvis2000]

Can't believe someone in IT is still on old ADSL, Iv'e been on Fibre for 3 years now.

Its a Post Code lottery. You won, I didn't.

[lilelvis2000]

I've had cable, which is fibre, since we could get the Internet on it. I've had it here since I moved in.

Once it was NTL, now it's Virgin Media. Most of the time it works brilliantly. They upped it to a nominal 50Mbps earlier in the year, and it does that, nominally. They charge too much, but that's because they're a bunch of ***** who screw long-standing customers, like all providers.

I could chop and change, and maybe save £10 this year and £15 the next before I got re-screwed, but I'd still end up getting screwed, and I'd have all the hassle of choosing who to get screwed by.

As I'm going to get screwed anyway, I just let myself get screwed by them. It doesn't make any difference in the long run; I've been here ten years, and it's all just the same, but faster.

I bet if you ring up Virgin and say you are leaving..they'd make you an offer you couldn't refuse. And when they do that, you squeeze them some more.

[TheFaQQer]

I bet if you ring up Virgin and say you are leaving..they'd make you an offer you couldn't refuse. And when they do that, you squeeze them some more.

As I said earlier, they told me to go if I wanted to go, when I tried that.