£10 extra to go from 23Meg to 40 Meg?

MissChief · 29 Jan 2014 at 19:53

Would you? Fibre became available to me today and being that I don't pay for my broadband at the moment I'm in two minds. I get 23 Meg via DSL thanks to living less than 500m from my exchange. Fibre to me would be £10 a month but I wouldn't even double my speed. To go onto the top package would be an extra £30 a month but would also necessitate changing the two wireless adapters in my PC's. A small cost but I'm not sure I can stomach £30 a month for around 78Meg.

So, £10 a month for 40 Meg or £0 for 23 Meg?

Caged · 29 Jan 2014 at 20:04

Your pricing doesn't make a huge amount of sense. Why is 40 only £10 extra yet 80 is £30 extra?

meandu229 · 29 Jan 2014 at 20:26

I would say worth it. Fibre is much more stable and consistent aswell as lower pings.

Trifid · 29 Jan 2014 at 20:34

You can't argue with free imo...

zoomee · 29 Jan 2014 at 20:49

meandu229 said:
I would say worth it. Fibre is much more stable and consistent aswell as lower pings.

This chuck!

Lower pings will help improve performance overall but I wouldn't bother with more than the £10 package unless you do some serious downloading. Even then (I batter mine all day long) the extra cost ain't worth the little bit of time saved.

I'm on 76MB down / 17MB up - its the upload I benefit from - Look to change to a different provider (BT charge me £26pm for full fibre, sky was £30, but I think the best deal at the mo is £25 from plusnet)

KIA · 29 Jan 2014 at 20:50

Caged said:
Your pricing doesn't make a huge amount of sense. Why is 40 only £10 extra yet 80 is £30 extra?

Sky 40/10 employee discount.

Nymins · 29 Jan 2014 at 20:54

Do you need more than 23Mb?

Caged · 29 Jan 2014 at 21:11

Just pay the £10. The faster upload makes a lot of things possible that weren't before - online backup for a start.

MissChief · 29 Jan 2014 at 21:12

I do buy most of my games digitally now so it would be useful. Same with the upload. I've started recording a lot of my BF4 rounds.

MissChief · 30 Jan 2014 at 00:25

I think I'm going to got for it. It's only £10!

marc2003 · 30 Jan 2014 at 09:06

i'd go for it. i remember paying an extra £7-8 a month to upgrade from 512k to 1Mb. i thought it was great at the time.

FrenchTart · 30 Jan 2014 at 09:25

meandu229 said:
I would say worth it. Fibre is much more stable and consistent aswell as lower pings.

FTTC often doesn't have lower pings assuming that the OP is on an ISP that offers fastpath on his ADSL product.

edit: If it is Sky as above then I presume you're stuck on interleave anyhow.

MissChief · 30 Jan 2014 at 12:13

Yup stuck on Interleave. There has been talk of offering Fastpath but nothing confirmed as yet so it's just talk. Also rumours that static IP's are being considered but again, nothing confirmed.

MissChief · 30 Jan 2014 at 14:35

Order placed for 40/10.