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I just swap between BT and Plusnet everytime pretty much. Plusnet let you refix for a much cheaper price iirc, think that's what I did last renewal.
BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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Literally ring and ask them a few weeks before your current contract is up, I've been with Plusnet for both my parents and at my last house and they will sort you out quite quickly.
On several occasions over the years I have spoken with their retentions team, the guys just straight up offer you either the latest new customer price, or if you quote a competitor they'll try match it.
If I recall last time I rang, Vodafone at the time were quite aggressively offering the 80/20 FTTC for £20pm and they matched it for my parents when I asked.
Cheers, I'll give their retentions team a call. Last time I did this I fixed in for 3 years hence it's been a long time since I renewed.
If they can actually match the new customer price, it might actually be a bit cheaper for me.
Wasn't aware they offer or even do 3 yr contracts? Most I've ever seen is 24 months...
Their new customer deals are all only 18 months too, which is all I've known for PN.
Either way yeah 100% call them, sound folks when I've rang last few times over the years. Do some quick research and see who's cheapest too, they might price match it if cheaper than their own pricing.
I had a quick look, it’s 20 minutes for 130-odd GB but that’s still quicker than the 35-40 with 500MBits.And all for a couple more quid each week.
Game downloads on Steam/PS5 are ridiculously quick on 1Gbps, it's almost comical. The PS4 can't reach those same speeds though, and the Xbox/MS servers seem to struggle to give more than 50-60Mbps based on my experience of downloading PC Game Pass games.
In fact on the PS5, when downloading patches at least, it's usually the copying which takes the time, not the download.
Yup, I have 900 Mbps down and my PS5 downloads very close to line speed but it's the actual update/copy process that takes its time.
Knowing it can do it at speed means I'm less likely to require an M.2 expansion drive as I can remove and re-add games to alleviate space as required.
I'm not sure what it does with saves etc but I assume it keeps those.
Just ordered 900mb from BT this morning to replace Virgin. Might be a bit of a tricky install, certainly won't get done on install day if they haven't sent someone out before hand so holding off on cancelling virgin just for now. Fingers crossed!
Taking the opportunity to hopefully run some ethernet to a few rooms and put a decent Wifi AP on the ceiling in the middle of the house which should cover everywhere.
Taking the opportunity to hopefully run some ethernet to a few rooms and put a decent Wifi AP on the ceiling in the middle of the house which should cover everywhere.
That'll be a breath of fresh air!
I've not had any major problems with VM to be honest, it could just be better....
Plus it will be nice to have options in a couple of years when it comes to renewal time. At the minute I don't have any BT lines coming into the house so interested to see how/if they manage it...
That may be the case but FTTP is king for latency and jitter. Things will feel more responsive, less lag in games and of course the much better upload.
Yeah for sure. Looking forward to it.
Finally have full fibre in my area, might switch to Sky gigafast (think this is new?) as they seem cheaper than BT who I’m with at the moment. Although EE also offer this cheaper I think and I’m existing customer with them. Decisions decisions.
I've been tracking the development of FTTP here and looking at an address across town, the notifications of street works appeared in March, the last week of March had Openreach engineers working on the pole to fit the CBT, the BT Wholesale checker changed to FTTPoD being 1000Mbps on April 13, and then on April 23 native FTTP became available to order.
The Openreach checker first ticked over to "coming soon" in June 2021 and the area was confirmed on the Openreach rollout maps in their October 2021 update. So from announcement to ready for order for the first properties to go live it's taken 10 months, I'm still waiting for it to reach me.
The good news seems to be that once the physical infrastructure is in place then it's opened up to order - they aren't delaying availability until the whole build is complete.
The Openreach checker first ticked over to "coming soon" in June 2021 and the area was confirmed on the Openreach rollout maps in their October 2021 update. So from announcement to ready for order for the first properties to go live it's taken 10 months, I'm still waiting for it to reach me.
The good news seems to be that once the physical infrastructure is in place then it's opened up to order - they aren't delaying availability until the whole build is complete.
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This appeared on our telegraph pole while I was at work today
I'd seen them on other poles over the past few days and assumed they were to do with Openreach FTTP rollout as I've seen a lot of Openreach work going on around town recently, even though FTTP is only due here some time by December 2026. It wasn't until I got the zoom lens out today that I saw the Lightspeed label. Notice that they've not bothered to put a screw in the top hole lol.
I'd seen them on other poles over the past few days and assumed they were to do with Openreach FTTP rollout as I've seen a lot of Openreach work going on around town recently, even though FTTP is only due here some time by December 2026. It wasn't until I got the zoom lens out today that I saw the Lightspeed label. Notice that they've not bothered to put a screw in the top hole lol.
This appeared on our telegraph pole while I was at work today
I'd seen them on other poles over the past few days and assumed they were to do with Openreach FTTP rollout as I've seen a lot of Openreach work going on around town recently, even though FTTP is only due here some time by December 2026. It wasn't until I got the zoom lens out today that I saw the Lightspeed label. Notice that they've not bothered to put a screw in the top hole lol.
Lightspeed have been putting fibre in around Lincolnshire and Rutland a lot lately. I was looking forward to it, but we ended up moving to a house with FTTP anyway. May end up getting my Dad and my inlaws signed up to Lightspeed though, their FTTC connections are pretty awful.
I'm already getting 60Mb on FTTC with Zen anyway so it could be a lot worse. I'm not sure I'd want to change to Lightspeed or wait for Openreach so I'd have a choice of providers.
Anyone know the standard FTTP prices for 150/300/900 please I'm trying to renegotiate a deal as out of contract and not getting anywhere atm. I can't even find anywhere on BT what normal not new customer prices are
When I first called up they said we can offer same price as current deal (I think 46 something) for 150 and no phone line I was like nope no thanks I've seen offers for new customers via Eurogamer at 29.99
The very best they could.offer I think was 39.99 for 150, 46 (I think) for 300 and something like 49.99 for 300
None of which seemed great tbh
When I first called up they said we can offer same price as current deal (I think 46 something) for 150 and no phone line I was like nope no thanks I've seen offers for new customers via Eurogamer at 29.99
The very best they could.offer I think was 39.99 for 150, 46 (I think) for 300 and something like 49.99 for 300
None of which seemed great tbh