Sky/Virgin/BT fibre?

Ahleckz

Ahleckz

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I've just moved and think I'm best getting fibre from one of the big 3, but happy to look elsewhere.
Previous occupance had Sky.
I want around 30+Mbps, don't need 100+ that's for sure.
So, anyone know of any great deals at the minute? Just want the best value deal, I imagine all three of them are much the muchness.
I only want internet (and need line rental - it looks like they are all bundled nowadays? Gone are the days of cheap line rental!).
So, any advice?
 
Efour said:
Ring them up and ask
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This....

Get a "deal" from each of them and play them off each other so they have to offer you the best deal otherwise you say you'll goto another.

Did same thing last year when upgrading from ADSL to fibre. My 12 month deal just finished so looking around once again.

The line rental is a total pain, can't remember last time I used my own landline, but it's still the largest chunk of the monthly price. But as I say, get an idea of what they can each offer then if you prefer one go back and say another one is offering better deal as a new customer and see what they then offer. I got a decent deal with BT last year so went with them and got the 38MB fibre deal. But the last couple weeks they're now offering 52MB I think, but i might have more trouble this year as i'm an existing customer and they often give the best deals if you're new.
 
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Ahleckz said:
I've just moved and think I'm best getting fibre from one of the big 3, but happy to look elsewhere.
Previous occupance had Sky.
I want around 30+Mbps, don't need 100+ that's for sure.
So, anyone know of any great deals at the minute? Just want the best value deal, I imagine all three of them are much the muchness.
I only want internet (and need line rental - it looks like they are all bundled nowadays? Gone are the days of cheap line rental!).
So, any advice?
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Get me to recommend you to virgin and we both get £50 :D

(Seriously, let me know if you wanna)
 
Play them off... doesnt really work tbh, computer says no

Quidco are offering upto £185 cashback with BT
Looking on the BT site give s a £100 prepaid visa card if yuou take infinity 1 upto 51Mbps

For Sky quidco offer £70 cashback and a £100 MnS voucher

For virgin media upto 220 if you take the big kahuna bundle

I'd rule virgin out tbh, if you want low pings and are happy with none 100+ meg speeds
However, any other provider will be wanting line rental

I'd go with thichever offers the better package after cashback and any reward cards or the like.

Alternatively a Friends and Family sky deal?
 
I'd like to chip in here if I may. I have just changed to sky fibre this evening.

Virgin for 6 months has been awful for me. I live in a horrendously oversubscribed area (Telford). In a morning/early afternoon I get the full might of my 200mb connection. But anytime after 5 (when I actually want to use it I am stuck at 6mb at best. Last night was the final straw. About 22:30 when trying to stream I did a speedtest and got a miserable 200kb download speed and a ping of about 800. Absoloutly awful. After all of my issues over the last 6 months virgin agreed to let me out of contract with the broadband and phone.

Looked at BT deals, but I've heard some shockers about their customer service and the chap on the phone didn't impress me, but I was interested by their recent 52mb package.

Phoned sky and asked about if they would be upgrading, the guy giggled and said he couldn't give me anything definate but to rest assured that sky is never far behind the competition. So I'll take that as a yes.

Got 40/10 evening and weekends and a skyQ router (the hub is shocking) for £31 a month. Phoned an hour later on the quip that my wife and I had a row and she wanted to stay with Virgin and requested to cancel. Retentions immediatly offered the same package for £26 month for 12 months.

Jobs a goodun, so thats what I've gone for. Consistency is the key for me no flatout speed. My 12 months with Virgin broadband has been horrendous. They have put the estimated area fix back 6 times in 6 months, enough was enough.
 
I've just gone with Zen as I wanted a static IP address and they do not do any traffic shaping whatsoever, unlike all the other big names.

Plus much better customer service.
 
Ended up with Sky Unlimited broadband. £17.50 a month, 12 month contract. £100 M&S voucher and £60 cash back.
Don't really need fibre after thinking about it, and thought the above was a good deal.
I phoned A couple of places but the internet deals were all better.
 
Zaf said:
I've just gone with Zen as I wanted a static IP address and they do not do any traffic shaping whatsoever, unlike all the other big names.

Plus much better customer service.
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How good are Zen? I seriously considered them when my contract was up but I spotted some mistakes on there site which I did not get an explanation for so didn't end up going with them.
 
Glaucus said:
virgin is terrible, I swear they throttle youtube when it's busy.
sky were far better.
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Really, you are the only person that has said anything bad about Virgin BB. Their TV on the other hand is rubbish but I wouldn't change my fibre for anything else..I've been on cable since C&W :p

I have Virgin media for everything, then i pay NOWTV £24 for six months so i can watch Sky Sports on demand (no contract) and Sky Atlantic.. Switching to Sky would mean i'd loose BT sport completely. To have VM BB + Sky Tv works out too expensive combined.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
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Really, you are the only person that has said anything bad about Virgin BB. Their TV on the other hand is rubbish but I wouldn't change my fibre for anything else..I've been on cable since C&W :p

I have Virgin media for everything, then i pay NOWTV £24 for six months so i can watch Sky Sports on demand (no contract) and Sky Atlantic.. Switching to Sky would mean i'd loose BT sport completely. To have VM BB + Sky Tv works out too expensive combined.
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Really depends on your area though, I had Virgin in Brighton and was suffering congestion issues with them, even if I still can get around 10% of my usual speed, YouTube was being throttled to the point where it was mostly buffering most of the time. A friend in Kent however suffers no congestion or throttling issues at all.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
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Really, you are the only person that has said anything bad about Virgin BB. Their TV on the other hand is rubbish but I wouldn't change my fibre for anything else..I've been on cable since C&W :p

I have Virgin media for everything, then i pay NOWTV £24 for six months so i can watch Sky Sports on demand (no contract) and Sky Atlantic.. Switching to Sky would mean i'd loose BT sport completely. To have VM BB + Sky Tv works out too expensive combined.
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You can get bt sport on sky but it's £15 a month or something like that I have bt infinity plus sky and get it for £2.50
 
enigma27 said:
Sky do not traffic shape or cap speeds :confused:
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Ok maybe not traffic shaping as such, but do block websites.

holdin09 said:
How good are Zen? I seriously considered them when my contract was up but I spotted some mistakes on there site which I did not get an explanation for so didn't end up going with them.
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So far so good, I was originally with BT but they wanted an arm and a leg for a static IP address and tried to force me on to their business service. With Zen it comes as part of the package.

It feels like Zen are a bunch of geeks rather than just a large corporation
 
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