Utility Warehouse now offering fibre!

Stoner81

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To say that I am excited about this is an understatement! Openreach have taken 2 years to get where I live up and running properly with fibre, plus with living so close to the exchange made things even harder with not having a roadside green cabinet.

Thankfully all this has now changed and as such we are ordering fibre sometime this week. We have been really impressed with their broadband and with everything in general for that matter, so here's to hoping that their fibre is just as good!

Anybody else out there with UW getting fibre?

Link to their homepage - https://www.utilitywarehouse.co.uk/

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40/10 instead of 40/2, so that's good.

They lose a point because they don't list the price of the line rental with the broadband.

18 month contract is a little disappointing.
 
We have just ordered ours so I am very excited to finally be on fibre! The line rental cost is £16.20 per month but the more you have with them the cheaper things get. We currently have pretty much everything with them:

Gas
Electricty
Home Phone
Internet (regular broadband until the upgrade comes in)
2x Samsung Galaxy Note 4's

All of that is costing us about £150 a month and that's us massively over paying them on energy bills (we don't send regular meter readings so it's our fault really).

Hopefully we should be able to get the full 80/20 since we are so close to the exchange, I will report back once we have everything in place!

Stoner81.
 
Still waiting for the router to arrive which I think is going to be another Technicolour :( on the plus side though it should have 1 gigabit ports which will make file transfers on the home network a ton faster!

So excited!!!! :eek:

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Well I can only comment on the regular broadband at the moment since our fibre is due to be switched on tomorrow...

With that being said it has been superb! The first couple of weeks were a bit on the iffy side but after that things really settled down and had absolutely no issues whatsoever. We are very close to our exchange so we pretty much get the maximum possible speed which is 20Mb though the router says just under 19Mb but when I download anything I get 2MB/s so go figure :)

One thing to note though is that our broadband is technically provided by TalkTalk but if we have any issues (which we haven't had) then we still ring Utility Warehouse and they shout at TalkTalk or whoever it is with which I find very good and on top of that without being racist you get to speak an English person on the phone which is fantastic since I really struggle to understand thick accents of any sort over the phone :/

The set up was really simple they just did everything we didn't have to do much at all!

Utility Warehouse are basically a broker of sorts sort of like CompareTheMeerkat, they shop around for you and get you the best deal they can and pass on the savings to their customers. The bill is fully itemised so you have a complete breakdown of everything every single month and it's just direct debit for everything which is worth it's own weight in gold to us for the convenience of it.

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Our router has arrived and it's a Technicolor TG588v v2

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I have no idea if it's any good per se but our current Technicolor router works for the regular broadband so here's to hoping it's fine :)

EDIT - After a quick search it would appear that it doesn't have gigabit ethernet sockets :( which is a major bummer since my storage is used as a NAS for the other half's laptop so having gigabit ports would have made file transfers so much faster *cries*. On the plus side Utility Warehouse have sent us a bunch of information on what settings are needed if we wanted to use our own equipment so that might be worth looking in to.

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bremen1874 said:
If you need Gigabit for the LAN spend £15-ish on an unmanaged Gigabit switch and plug it into the router.
Click to expand...

That's the idea I am currently looking at :)

Just a quick update everything is up and running and are currently getting:

19.99MBs Up
79.98 Down

Winner winner chicken dinner!!!!!

Stoner81.
 
Well a few days have passed and all is well, speed has dropped off very slightly and we are currently getting 78.89Mb according to our router, so it has only dropped about 1Mb give or take a bit. Overall really happy though :)

EDIT - After doing some reading I am toying with the idea of buying the TP Link VR900 to replace our Technicolour router.

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