City Fibre

edGfaCTor said:
provider price for example Toob can be had for £22 900/900. (They do offer Ipv4 static for £8 extra)
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Toob are their own alt-net with ~100k subscribers, so no one can compare directly to them apart from other small alt-nets. You can't really compare them to ISPs which offer services to over 90% of the UK. And as you mention, they offer a static IP which is not, and as you quote, double the price.
edGfaCTor said:
which provider that offers static is that price?
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Again, they are comparatively speaking a small ISP with a limited UK wide footprint.
edGfaCTor said:
most of the ones i have looked at are £40+
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Ones which cover most of the UK?

You can't choose a niche product which has limited coverage, and use their pricing to directly compare with alternate providers who have vastly larger networks.
 
edGfaCTor said:
It really is nothing like sharing your credit file more like sharing your home address so it really is not a big deal at all.

Why would it matter what others do it doesn't.

I tried to find a list of providers which are CGNAT couldn't find a complete one but it looks like 90% of UK is this and if you want static you pay extra.
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Someone does something naughty on the IP they share with you, you then get banned on that service when they ban the IP. Your household already shares an IP with no CGNAT, because NAT is standardised.
 
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Add to that, Gmail notifications didn't come through to my phone I've just got a load through.

Yes, I suspected DNS. It did smell like that was the cause. But how to resolve, I don't know! I open to trying it again, I've got the tar image so can switch back but I'm at a bit of a loss!
 
Well, my Toob router arrived today unexpectedly, then about 4 hours later I get the shipping notification from Toob lol... Friday is my install day, neighbour had his fitted yesterday and they fitted it in his lounge as they couldn't go in through the front of the house which has me worried a little for mine, I'd like it fitted in the back bedroom (upstairs) so I can connect my pc directly and take advantage of the speeds without resorting to spending a load on extras to get the connection into my office room, sounds like it's going to be a pita though.
 
My parents are having issues.

They signed up for No One back in 2023 (some people may remember the posts on the awful work from CityFibre) and as people know this side of the business was sold to Home Telecom.

No One service was activated December 5th 2023 yet Home Telecom are claiming they have to pay a penalty for leaving before Feb 2026 and also threatening they will charge a large sum on top for not returning the router.

This was the info they received when arranging to move to a different service which will if all goes well take place December 31.
 
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City Fibre checker now says I can connect to the City Fibre network and gives me a list of ISPs I can use. Is that list the only ones I can use as I can't see some of the ones recommended on here such as Sky and Aquiss.

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So many to check but went through the ones with deals at the moment.
Toob - 22/m inc router for 900mbps - 18 months
Octaplus - 25/m inc router for 900mbps - 24 months
Connexin - £30/m inc router for 900mbps - 24 months
IDNet - £40/m inc router for 950mbps - 18 months

I've only ever heard of Toob and IDNet and am sure some on here have said Toob isn't very good. Is IDNet worth the extra money?
 
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CliffyG said:
City Fibre checker now says I can connect to the City Fibre network and gives me a list of ISPs I can use. Is that list the only ones I can use as I can't see some of the ones recommended on here such as Sky and Aquiss.
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You'll be better off putting your details directly into Aquiss etc to check for services or reach out to them, Martin + rest of support are on the ball usually.
 
Glanza said:
You'll be better off putting your details directly into Aquiss etc to check for services or reach out to them, Martin + rest of support are on the ball usually.
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Tried that and says I can't have it so the list must be the only ones I can use. Have edited some of them into my last post.
 
CliffyG said:
Tried that and says I can't have it so the list must be the only ones I can use. Have edited some of them into my last post.
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The list of support ISP in my area also shows no Aquiss, but I'm having it switched over this coming Friday from Cooko (on cityfibre) to Aquiss 2.5gb connection. it's not a bad deal really atm it works out to £49 a month and I was paying £41 to Cookoo inc static ip for 900meg. Aquiss seem to have a pretty good reputation I will report back friday with how it went and what they are like for you.

It's strange that it's allowed me and not you then.
 
Just trying to decide between Toob and IDNet now, am tempted to go for IDNet as its a better package and support seems decent. 15 quid more a month though. Not fussed about Aquiss as they don't provide a router anyway just thought it was odd some don't provide for all locations.
 
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I went with Toob, it's been okay so far, not had any issues other than trying to get my own router to work which was user error.
 
Toob's been fine for me. Only negative point for my use is the supplied router only has a 3 port switch, and I need 4. I just configured the existing router to work with Toob and I suppose the supplied router is now e-waste because they don't want it back.
 
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