[Abzynthe]

I'm paying £48 a month with Vodafone and this is my speeds.

[MY340i]

£33 a month through retentions. Landline, basic tv box, 200mb virgin.

[KRS_SN]

quick note to say that called sky they did £30pm superfast unlimited fiber with a 'guaranteed speed anytime engineer visit etc deal and also send out a newer router. The lady I spoke to was fab in sorting me out

[Steve_M_Sport]

My deal - down from £139pm

[Bryans69]

Originally Posted by Steve_M_Sport

My deal - down from £139pm

That's really good, especially for all you have

[Blacktemplar]

Originally Posted by Steve_M_Sport

My deal - down from £139pm

That's a brilliant deal - wish I'd stamped my feet a bit more when I renewed. They offered me the Ultimate Volt for £112pm but it's far more than I need or would ever watch.

We renewed on the same package we had & dropped from £108pm to £71pm for 200Mb broadband, Maxit TV, 2 boxes and BT Sport (not into anything sports wise except rugby, cycling & F1 and happy to watch C4 highlights for the latter), plus free calls even though we don't use a landline at all these days.

[g9icy]

I just got 900mbit from BT. The engineers installed it wrong so had to wait 2 days for it to be sorted, but BT sent me a 4g WIFI modem that worked brilliantly (for free).

Since then I've not really seen much above 600mbit, but that's still fast. Only once have I seen it go to 800mbit in a torrent, for about 10s.

Anyway, it's £55 a month.

[Steve_M_Sport]

Originally Posted by Blacktemplar

That's a brilliant deal - wish I'd stamped my feet a bit more when I renewed. They offered me the Ultimate Volt for £112pm but it's far more than I need or would ever watch.

We renewed on the same package we had & dropped from £108pm to £71pm for 200Mb broadband, Maxit TV, 2 boxes and BT Sport (not into anything sports wise except rugby, cycling & F1 and happy to watch C4 highlights for the latter), plus free calls even though we don't use a landline at all these days.

I had to go through the whole cancellation saga and gave them 30 days notice to cancel as the best they could do was £110.00pm.

Within 2 days of cancelling a very nice lady rang and said my details had popped up on her cancellation list. She gave some excuse about my Virgin account not being configured properly & now she had sorted it she was now able to offer me this deal for £64 - I quickly accepted.

Good speed too

[Rathian]

I use Zen Internet. £64.99 for the 900 FTTP package.

[Scoobyd]

Originally Posted by Rathian

I use Zen Internet.

Also with Zen. Been with them for years. Superb customer service and reliability. There's a reason they win the awards they do year in year out. I rely on the internet for my work too much to have it with any company that's a pain to deal with.

[Watsey]

Originally Posted by Scoobyd

Also with Zen. Been with them for years. Superb customer service and reliability. There's a reason they win the awards they do year in year out. I rely on the internet for my work too much to have it with any company that's a pain to deal with.

Zen certainly has a good reputation but it, like many others, uses the Openreach network and presumably also relies upon Openreach engineers.

Why would this be any more reliable than buying Openreach services from any other provider ?

I have FTTP via EE, just the basic 75mbps service, and it handles concurrent Zoom, TeamViewer, WiFi calling and multiple streaming devices (kids' devices) without any problems.

Given the high network bandwidth and reliability these days, it does make me wonder whether people really need 900mbps download (for example). I certainly don't have a need for it.

[Wills2]

Originally Posted by xenon

£60pm BT full fibre (FTTP). 300Mbps

Same supplier and cost but I get 5mbps

[ian332isport]

Originally Posted by Wills2

Same supplier and cost but I get 5mbps

Probably not FTTP though.

[simon.]

Vodafone FTTP 500 down and up, up to 3 boosters (mesh) for while house coverage, a 4G sim dongle for back up if we ever drop out, £32PM for 24 months.

Happy with that.

[MY340i]

any ideas how to find out when FTTP gets rolled out in certain areas of the country

[Wills2]

Originally Posted by ian332isport

Probably not FTTP though.

Take a guess...

[pmgreenwood]

Originally Posted by MY340i

any ideas how to find out when FTTP gets rolled out in certain areas of the country

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/

This site brings regular reports of areas in which FTTP being added and its maps give can give info on the extent of local coverage.

https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/loca.../49.511/0.297/

[Grant_7]

I'm with Hyperoptic (FTTP) on their 250Mbs service. £32/month I believe.

[Daftasabrush]

Originally Posted by Scoobyd

Also with Zen. Been with them for years. Superb customer service and reliability. There's a reason they win the awards they do year in year out. I rely on the internet for my work too much to have it with any company that's a pain to deal with.

Also with Zen, have been for years and they've been great. Low latency, stable throughput and reliable. If there are issues, I can talk with them on a technical level and they fight your corner with Openreach too. They're not the cheapest but they're definitely one of the best.

[Daftasabrush]

Originally Posted by Watsey

Zen certainly has a good reputation but it, like many others, uses the Openreach network and presumably also relies upon Openreach engineers.

Why would this be any more reliable than buying Openreach services from any other provider ?

I have FTTP via EE, just the basic 75mbps service, and it handles concurrent Zoom, TeamViewer, WiFi calling and multiple streaming devices (kids' devices) without any problems.

Given the high network bandwidth and reliability these days, it does make me wonder whether people really need 900mbps download (for example). I certainly don't have a need for it.

They do use Openreach (and CityFibre in places) but the differentiation is how the company is run, why it's run how it is and their technical knowledge. Their network is good, reliable and I don't think in the 8 years I've been with them I have ever been an outage that was their fault. The use of Openreach is just to the nearest PoP. In my case, my traffic is Openreach to London but then it's on Zen's network. They actually happen to host the gateways I usually connect to in the same datacentre I have equipment in for work. As they grow, they add more PoPs, it's looking like I'm going to get one within walking distance from my house soon but that is speculation at the moment. When I started with them, latency was around 20ms because my gateway was in Rochdale, now it's in London, I can see 5-6ms when Openreach don't introduce DLM.