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Best broadband to go for?
linkinpark875
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I can get Talk Talk, Sky, BT or Virgin. Seeminly Talk Talk is poor, Sky has some good deals 1TB box but after the first year it will go away up to £35 quid.
Virgin broadband only is £25.50 50mb speed or BT? I can get about 17MB with BT for £25. I believe they also throw in BT Sport "lite" which would be good. However I'd rather have a Humax box for it is it best to buy online or do they give you a free box? I'm not fussed about a phone line just looking for a fixed price deal.
Many offer vouchers for new customers too.
Virgin broadband only is £25.50 50mb speed or BT? I can get about 17MB with BT for £25. I believe they also throw in BT Sport "lite" which would be good. However I'd rather have a Humax box for it is it best to buy online or do they give you a free box? I'm not fussed about a phone line just looking for a fixed price deal.
Many offer vouchers for new customers too.
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What is amazing about it?
I am still in contact at the moment, but after i may look at vodafone if I do not go back to my old provider.
Saying that I do like to use my own router.
Fast is not always better, you need customer service, reliability, no blocking, and no traffic mutilating
Awful customer service, though.
But getting better, when you break the complaints figures down its about two thousand from four million (thats 4,000,000 punters) customers so a drop in the ocean in the real world.
Sadly people only seem concerned with the small minority numbers and not the real world experience.
As much as I hate to say it, their customer service is getting better, a friend is with them at the moment and the couple of problems she had have been handled ok.
she is moving soon, so what they will be like in handling a move is another thing.
Saying all of that, it is still one of the ones that would not be my first choice. Then Plusnet was really on my list either.
TBH, all large providers are more or less the same these days, all cutting costs and trying to sell broadband as cheap as possible,
I think you have to go where you think you get the best deal. BT do TV so I suspect you can get your box through BT, use that as your haggle room. Sky have loads of gimicks at the moment as they are clearly under attack from BT, yet they still have more top football (if that's what you want) but you will pay for it in the subs price.
As for virgin I can't comment as never used them.
Virgin also has everything the person above posting about Sky has got too, but Sky, BT etc only use copper wire so download speeds are nowhere near as fast and never will be.
Except where the Virgin network in your local area is congested, resulting in peak time speeds that are probably lower than you'd get elsewhere.
Or if you care about upload speeds - as BT's upload is still higher than Virgin's.
Or if you get annoyed by perennial issues with the VM network, like YouTube being slow, or sites being blocked
It is not true that "BT only use copper wire", because BT also have a small fibre to the premises rollout - offering speeds currently well in excess of what Virgin offers. And it's worth pointing out that "Virgin only use copper wire" too - just differently constructed. It is no more "fibre" than the BT fibre to the cabinet network is.
Your post sounds like you've basically copied a Virgin ad out of a newspaper.
If you're talking about all of BT's broadband packages, FTTC uses so much fibre and then depending on how far the person lives from the cabinet, a short distance of copper. FTTP uses all fibre.
I heard that Plusnet was very good, not as good as I would like it to be, like it is not crap, but it could be better. some people I know that have BT, some finds it ok, some find it crap.
The same with Talk Talk, i know a lot of people with Talk and most of them had problems, with slow network and reliability. Only when a friend of mine had Talk Talk I realised how good they can be. i do not think I would go with them myself
BT has caught my eye with their discounted SIM deals,but as normal i don't want to jump ship onto a crap provider & the internet has your normal 'moaning' threads which doesn't always paint the correct picture.
Any advice?