Tesco Broadband?

[J86]

Ok, so I've just seen on Quidco that I can get 4 months free, 1000 clubcard points and cashback of £45.

I also have a staff discount card which takes off another 10% a month I believe.


Is Tesco Broadband any good? I've been looking for a decent cheapish ISP for quite a while and Tesco looks like a good bet.

Has anyone had any experience with them?


Thank you

 

[siege2]

so far http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/tesco-broadband-reviews.html thinks not, I'am on 12.50 a month on SKY LLU only 89 metres from telephone exchange and get a solid 24 meg connection at 2.3 - 2.4 Mb's download. Very good connection etc BTW yes LLU is supposed to be 20 meg but some lucky people get more

 

[3dcandy]

probably ok for the price...but you do get what you pay for!

 

[stockhausen]

so far http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/tesco-broadband-reviews.html thinks not ...

the latest review there is for 2011 - does anyone have any recent experience of Tesco Broadband, they seem to have some good deals on Broadband and Landline at the moment.

 

[Orcvader]

Looks like a lot of angry customers: http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broadband/review/tesco-broadband/comment

How about seeing at what's actually avaliable to you in your area?

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

Cheap broadband doesn't always mean reliable broadband.

 

[pitchfork]

You get what you pay for, and if Tesco's other services are anything to go by, it's a massive pile of **** people only use because £10 worth of clubcard points is worth more than saving actual money and time with a reliable service.

I've worked for Tesco's, I know how they roll.

 

[KIA]

I wonder if they store broadband passwords in plain text.

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/lessons-in-website-security-anti.html

 

[stockhausen]

Looks like a lot of angry customers: http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broadband/review/tesco-broadband/comment

How about seeing at what's actually available to you in your area?

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

Cheap broadband doesn't always mean reliable broadband.

Thanks for that, I'll check out the Broadband Genie reviews carefully tomorrow. On a quick scan, they seem pretty damning.. I'm not quite sure what I can learn from the SamKnows link, it doesn't really seem to tell me much so far as I can see

I take your point about cheap broadband not always meaning reliable broadband. However, expensive broadband isn't always that reliable either, it seems to be a complete lottery. I know someone who moved from an old slow BT service which he had been using for years to a faster BT service - it was a complete nightmare so he cancelled that contract (without it ever working) and went to Virgin Media; after a few weeks of failure and frustration with that he gave up on that and went back to BT which now works absolutely fine - go figure.

I don't use broadband for gaming so I'm not really all that bothered about speed or ping times, I ambothered about excessive cost and unreliability - thanks for the tips anyhow

 

[MADMAN]

tesco do broadband ?

I had to ask lol

 

[Orcvader]

Paste the Samknows link of your exchange, then we can tell you what's avaliable. LLU packages are what you want, as it means the internet provider has set up their equipment at the exchange, ensuring you get the best service from them instead of borrowing BT's equipment (which is a complete mess). Virgin Media is also a mess because in some cases when there's too many Virgin customers connected to the same exchange, it causes congestion as the Virgin equipment can't cope with it.

And yes, not all providers are reliable no matter the price, which is why I wanted to see what exchange you're on. The current reliable ones seems to be Sky, Be and O2 at the moment, but there's no point going for these if you can't get their LLU services. If no good LLU services are avaliable to you, then a good BT reseller is the next best thing.