Hi all
Our home broadband has always been stuck in the dark ages. We currently get 1.01mb download speed at home!! I discovered today that we're now eligible for fibre optic broadband in our area. The best deal i've found online is with Sky Fibre. It's £27.90 a month & £50 installation fee. That sounds very expensive to me. Is that the going rate for Fibre Optic, or does anyone know of a better deal elsewhere?
Thanks in advance
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Whoever you go with, make sure you do it through a cashback website like Quidco, money for nothing.
The actual switch was seamless. They emailed several times confirming dates etc and the Smart Hub etc was delivered the day before switchover. They said that my internet would go down for approx 30 mins while they do their thing but I was at work so didn't notice. Plugged everything in that evening and was good to go straight away. They even contacted EE to tell them I was changing supplier so I didn't have to cancel the old contract myself.
The house is about 50 yards from the road and they ran the connection in industrial cable so the signal didn't drop. And all this free of charge.
Their packages aren't the cheapest, but the service is brilliant.
Whoever you go for, make sure you get unlimited data, although most offer that as standard. Make sure you speak to someone rather than doing it on the website as the advisors generally have some wiggle room, but you might miss out on some the casback deals @mrlargo mentioned.
All use BT lines unless you are on virgin, so it will probably be fibre to the cabinet rather than fibre to the property, so your speed will be defined by your relative distance to the cabinet. So if your top end speed matters, check with the advisor or website the BT estimated line speed as you might want to consider virgin. Virgin is expensive, the TV package is poor but their broadband network is excellent.
we switched recently, talktalk fibre ended up being the best in our area. I just checked and I'm getting 36.64 Mb. think that's £27, no install fee
So, interested in what "bundles" you can get for phone and TV. Is there HD or UHD telly? (I'm currently with Talktalk which has been fine and as I'm on a legacy package I get free international calls which is important to me. But there's no HD sports package.)
Your views appreciated. Thanks.
The fibre is provided by either Openreach or Virgin Media. But the providers rent the fibre from Openreach so they will all be much of a muchness speed-wise. What all of the providers also have in common is they all want to bundle you up so quite often a deal for tv, broadband, mobile and landlines will often seem decent.
Think of it like the national grid own the power network but dozens of energy companies supply you and send you a bill. Whoever is easiest to deal with at a sensible price always wins for me
I'd kill for a 1.01mb download speed.
Just checked mine and I am getting 166.80 Mb/s download.
And that was over wifi, sitting in the middle of the garden, running off my Linksys Mesh network, the node about 10-15m away in the dining room. (It's quicker on the wired network, mind you!)
Anyone on Virgin, do yourself a favour and dump the superhub 2/3 as your router, just use it in modem mode.
Doesnt compare to the wired network here
I realise there are quicker networks but blimey...
Quite happy in the overall package and cost plus my daughter can still watch sky on skygo from uni.