City Fibre

I keep checking all the ISPs on Cityfibres books to see if I can save a few quid and nearly all of them are same price or more but also only on 24mth contracts with April price rises. Still staying with Cuckoo (formerly Giganet) for my £40 a month and never any price increases for 1gb up/down.

Have we stagnated as a nation for fibre around the £40 mark?!?!
 
I've had Sky FTTC for years now and it's been pretty rock solid, assuming the 1GB option would be as reliable? I work from home so pretty important that it's stable.
 
I keep checking all the ISPs on Cityfibres books to see if I can save a few quid and nearly all of them are same price or more but also only on 24mth contracts with April price rises. Still staying with Cuckoo (formerly Giganet) for my £40 a month and never any price increases for 1gb up/down.

Have we stagnated as a nation for fibre around the £40 mark?!?!

Have you looked at Toob?
 
Thanks, quite a few there, most of which I've never heard of. I'll have a look and see what they're like, only after 1GB really. Are there any to be avoided?
You can’t order Yayzi thankfully, they are still on a stop sell with CF, though ironically since the last migration, it’s actually been boringly reliable/fast. I would hard swerve Olilo as it’s one of the former directors of Yayzi (Liam) and NuFiber as that’s the other one (Martin), neither are people I would want to support personally as the only thing they were remotely good at is apologising for failures that more often than not shouldn’t have happened, let alone repeated.

If you want quality, Aquiss (another Martin) would be my suggestion, Vodafone really aren’t great - load balancing traffic between Edinburgh and London illogically, average hardware and poor CS, TalkTalk CF connections used to be handled by TT Business before the split and they were great, after the buy out I think they retained that part of the contract to provide management for CF connections on TT, but haven’t checked. Zen/IDNet use the same network and are not awful, but Zen of today is not Zen of old.

Sky get a mention now, they are DHCP based, but have been quietly monitoring certain activities on its network for years to guide it’s enforcement/blocking applications/policy as referenced in court records previously, oddly they have a history of standing up for customers when 3rd party rights holders try to use enforcement as a money grabbing exercise which was commendable, I believe they still stipulate you can’t connect your own equipment and need to use the hub, but it it’s never been enforced unless you have a fault.

Avoid anyone that uses CGNAT, it will cause you pain if you game or need to run services without putting in workarounds that add complexity.
 
You can’t order Yayzi thankfully, they are still on a stop sell with CF, though ironically since the last migration, it’s actually been boringly reliable/fast. I would hard swerve Olilo as it’s one of the former directors of Yayzi (Liam) and NuFiber as that’s the other one (Martin), neither are people I would want to support personally as the only thing they were remotely good at is apologising for failures that more often than not shouldn’t have happened, let alone repeated.

If you want quality, Aquiss (another Martin) would be my suggestion, Vodafone really aren’t great - load balancing traffic between Edinburgh and London illogically, average hardware and poor CS, TalkTalk CF connections used to be handled by TT Business before the split and they were great, after the buy out I think they retained that part of the contract to provide management for CF connections on TT, but haven’t checked. Zen/IDNet use the same network and are not awful, but Zen of today is not Zen of old.

Sky get a mention now, they are DHCP based, but have been quietly monitoring certain activities on its network for years to guide it’s enforcement/blocking applications/policy as referenced in court records previously, oddly they have a history of standing up for customers when 3rd party rights holders try to use enforcement as a money grabbing exercise which was commendable, I believe they still stipulate you can’t connect your own equipment and need to use the hub, but it it’s never been enforced unless you have a fault.

Avoid anyone that uses CGNAT, it will cause you pain if you game or need to run services without putting in workarounds that add complexity.
Thanks. I don't mind not having a static IP so from what you've said it's probably between Aquiss and Sky. I'll check out the deals a bit nearer our live date.
 
It's only on 8 months half price where a current active CityFibre service is already live with another provider. Else new connections are 3/6 months half price normally.
 
As an update, I was with No One Internet / Home telecom. Suddenly one morning, my internet upload speed went from 941mbps down to 17/50mbps, in other words useless.
Home telecom messed me about by pretending to ask me to do tests. I had to change cables and equipment, which took days out of my life.
In the end, they put the phone down as soon as I phoned them and ignored my emails. Totally sick of these games, I decided to leave.
They then woke up and sent an email because I was leaving. They said they'd send out an engineer, which I didn't need. Furthermore, they also decided that I joined much later than I did. They were going to charge me six months leaving fee. My contract ends in two months.

I joined Aquiss, it was a tremendously smooth change over, with the most wonderful help and support from the team and the Managing Director, Martin.
It was the best thing I could have done.
The fault was with Home telecom, they somehow flicked a switch.
There was no problem with my equipment, it was all a farce. With Aquiss everything is working perfectly. Happy Days!!!

Just for your info... I am using a GL.iNet GL-MT6000(Flint 2) Wi-Fi 6 Router, and I am getting 888mbps download and 941mbps upload.
 
Wonder if Aquiss have had a big uptick in swaps (myself included) so they've adjusted their offers.

Side note just spoke to Martin to get my connection upgraded to 1200 / 1200 , £15 fee to upgrade as I need the ONT replacing (mines currently a first gen CF with a 1gb port)
 
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Just got the long awaited email today that it's now available, very handy as my current deal ends next month so perfect timing! Quick question, none of the deals appear to include a home phone line (makes sense as it's a different network) but are there any providers that give landline options as well? Don't care if it's via VOIP or using the existing line just for that either or do I just need to get with the times and ditch the landline entirely in favour of my mobile?
 
Just got the long awaited email today that it's now available, very handy as my current deal ends next month so perfect timing! Quick question, none of the deals appear to include a home phone line (makes sense as it's a different network) but are there any providers that give landline options as well? Don't care if it's via VOIP or using the existing line just for that either or do I just need to get with the times and ditch the landline entirely in favour of my mobile?
If you can ditch the landline, I would. Normally ISPs do ask if you fit in a group that would need one, such as vulnerable or elderly.
 
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