Is Broadband Too Expensive?

dave28 · 14 Nov 2023 at 08:29

Troop said:
If your mobile connection is OK , might be worth a look at mobile routers.
£16 a month with Smarty, and give these speeds compared with 50mb/7mb FTTC.

If you call that an OK mobile signal then try living in a rural area, i can barely take a mobile call in my house let alone 1200mbps mobile internet.

Grim5 · 14 Nov 2023 at 08:31

dave28 said:
If you call that an OK mobile signal then try living in a rural area, i can barely take a mobile call in my house let alone 1200mbps mobile internet.

If you're rural, get Starlink

Turn · 14 Nov 2023 at 09:05

Grim5 said:
I pay about 100 a month for this 8G FTTH

Which ISP is that with :0

robj20 · 14 Nov 2023 at 09:16

Turn said:
Which ISP is that with :0

So many hidden costs with that though.
I bet you need a decent router to do 8Gb, 10gb network.
Unless it's purely to deliver 1gb to multiple devices at the same time.

flea.rider · 14 Nov 2023 at 09:59

Grim5 said:
I pay about 100 a month for this 8G FTTH

It's the fastest I can get atm though there are trials underway for 25G and trials for 100G is expected to take place in a few years

help me out here why would you need speeds like this at home ? sure work 25+ people .. unless your live streaming 60 porn channels at the same time ?

TheVoice · 14 Nov 2023 at 10:10

I don't think it's too expensive at all, I pay £39pm for 1Gbps with Hyperoptic which includes an additional WiFi mesh hub, that seems entirely fair for the very fast and stable service I get and frankly they could double it and I'd still pay because the only alternative is to go back to 30Mbps Openreach.

Troezar · 14 Nov 2023 at 13:15

flea.rider said:
help me out here why would you need speeds like this at home ? sure work 25+ people .. unless your live streaming 60 porn channels at the same time ?

It's like the marketing, "up to 8Gbps" probably actually uses 80Mbps

Can't have too much speed though, if the price is right.

tangey · 14 Nov 2023 at 16:02

throwaway4372 said:
My main complaint is getting into 24 month contracts then seeing better offers. Contracts should not exist.

Whereas my complaint is that I couldn't get a longer contract....£19.99 for 300M/100 with No price increases at all for 2 years.

I was one of demon internets first customers, tenner a month for modem bandwith (2400 bit at the start?)...plus national rate call to london priced at crazy-per-minute

Troop · 14 Nov 2023 at 17:24

dave28 said:
If you call that an OK mobile signal then try living in a rural area, i can barely take a mobile call in my house let alone 1200mbps mobile internet.

I am very rural small village in Mid Wales, 5 miles inland from the coast, I also have Starlink roam as a backup.

TBH, 3 smarty seem to be good in rural areas around me.

cp88 · 15 Nov 2023 at 12:38

It's reasonably priced, even more so if you push for a good deal. I am paying 38 a month for gigabit on Talktalk, very happy to pay that..

I find it best to stick to one ISP and just push to speak with the loyalty team whenever you can, I recently renewed 12 months early to get this deal via Livechat.

siclilmonkey · 15 Nov 2023 at 12:49

Virgin £41 a month for 500 + tv and phone. Its not to bad.

Terminal_Boy · 15 Nov 2023 at 13:09

I pay £37 p/m for 18mb/3mb over a WIMAX link to a water tower 2km away.

£25 p/m for any sort of fibre connection would be my next 5 Christmas’s come early.

robj20 · 15 Nov 2023 at 13:09

cp88 said:
It's reasonably priced, even more so if you push for a good deal. I am paying 38 a month for gigabit on Talktalk, very happy to pay that..

I find it best to stick to one ISP and just push to speak with the loyalty team whenever you can, I recently renewed 12 months early to get this deal via Livechat.

No idea where you get deals like that.
BT at the minute is £49.99, 3 months free. Okies you have the price increases.
I hate the nonsense with price increases and deals like 3 months free. Just give me the price it is for the length of the contract.

Freddie1980 · 15 Nov 2023 at 13:17

tamzzy said:
I use 3's 5g broadband. Paying £20/mth for unlimited data. Getting 250-500mbps on average.
Very reasonable pricing I would say.

What sort of ping are you getting on that?

cp88 · 15 Nov 2023 at 13:50

robj20 said:
No idea where you get deals like that.
BT at the minute is £49.99, 3 months free. Okies you have the price increases.
I hate the nonsense with price increases and deals like 3 months free. Just give me the price it is for the length of the contract.

Basically, I was paying £56.95 a month and thought I'd try my luck on the livechat (with 12 months left on my contract) and they told me if I renewed now they would discount £18.95 for 18 months. To be honest I couldn't believe the deal and snapped their hand off lol..

The service from Talktalk has been top notch, always hit 940/110 no matter the time of day.

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robj20 · 15 Nov 2023 at 14:01

cp88 said:
Basically, I was paying £56.95 a month and thought I'd try my luck on the livechat (with 12 months left on my contract) and they told me if I renewed now they would discount £18.95 for 18 months. To be honest I couldn't believe the deal and snapped their hand off lol..

The service from Talktalk has been top notch, always hit 940/110 no matter the time of day.

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The speed isn't really Talk Talks doing you'll get the same on any Openreach based service.
Always good to get good service when you need to talk to them though.
Best I got offered with BT was the social tariff 78MB for £20/month indefinitely. To be honest it's plenty fast enough, I had got used to downloading games much faster on my 300mb service though. But £20 is a bargain really.

WJA96 · 15 Nov 2023 at 14:13

tamzzy said:
I use 3's 5g broadband. Paying £20/mth for unlimited data. Getting 250-500mbps on average.
Very reasonable pricing I would say.

That seems extortionate when we’re currently paying £5+VAT for fully unlimited 3 business SIMs voice, SMS, data, limited international coverage). Yes, we have to take bundles of 11 or more to get them at that price but they can clearly do it. And that’s on a 12 month contract with 1 months notice.

WJA96 · 15 Nov 2023 at 14:14

Journey said:
Always some decent deals about if you can be bothered to look. I pay £3, yes £3 for unlimited 5G and have 500-600Mbps down and 50-80Mbps up. Sadly my deal comes to an end in March and it looks like it will go up to around £7.

Outrageous!

Kurgen · 15 Nov 2023 at 14:18

im with gigaclear which is technically rural broadband, i pay just over £50 a month for 900mbs up and down. had to run a decent lan cable direct to my office/gaming room so it kept the speed... using powerlines it dropped to about 150mbs

tamzzy · 15 Nov 2023 at 19:54

WJA96 said:
That seems extortionate when we’re currently paying £5+VAT for fully unlimited 3 business SIMs voice, SMS, data, limited international coverage). Yes, we have to take bundles of 11 or more to get them at that price but they can clearly do it. And that’s on a 12 month contract with 1 months notice.

haha i'll come find you for a business 5g broadband when my contract expires

Freddie1980 said:
What sort of ping are you getting on that?

just done a speedtest - 8pm weekday traffic so worst case scenario