BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

[opethdisciple]

So I am considering either the 300Mbps deal or the 500Mbps deal.

If the 300Mbps deal was truly 300Mbps that would be the one I would choose as its only £6 more than my current price.

But the guaranteed speeds is what concerns me.

The 300Mbps deal has a guarantee of 150Mbps whilst the 500Mbps deal has a guarantee of 425Mbps.

I know @andy_mk3 has said above that you generally get your full speed rating but I wont know this until I get the connection.

Also logically I will only really see an increase in speed when downloading from places like Steam, Epic etc... and how often am I doing that?

Once a month maybe. So the difference between downloading 60GB in 1hr as opposed to 30mins isn’t really going to be a massive difference which I will notice day to day.

That's my brain being logical, but of course I want the 500Mbps speed.

I've calculated that the best price to Mbps deal is the most expensive one at 900Mbps but I cant justify the cost when I will only be downloading things from steam once a month if that.

900Mbps connection for browsing is total overkill.

We are coping just fine on 74Mbps currently and we have quite a few devices plus Netflix etc its only downloading from Steam that's slow.

 

[ChrisD.]

You’ll be fine on 300 Mbps. I doubt you’ll ever see slow down. The key part is the upload speed if that’s of any use to you, things like cloud backups, photo uploads, OneDrive, google drive etc.

 

[KIA]

The 500Mbps package on the other hand has a noticeable step up in minimum guaranteed speed.

Are you still in contract?

The deals in the screenshot aren't competitive.

Voda 500 £30 + £45 voucher
Sky 500 £32 + £80 voucher
Plusnet £33 + £100 card

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[opethdisciple]

Are you still in contract?

The deals in the screenshot aren't competitive.

Voda 500 £30 + £45 voucher
Sky 500 £32 + £80 voucher
Plusnet £33 + £100 card

uswitch.com

Yup. Unfortunately only renegotiated in Dec 2024 when full fibre wasn’t an option.

The other issue is the parents don’t want to much change so really the only option was to stay with BT as we have TV, phone and broadband with them already.

Having just phoned BT I only had two options available to me either Full Fibre 300 or Full fibre 900 and the difference was a like £4 so I've gone for the Full Fibre 900.

 

[robj20]

I always though aquiss was quite expensive, based on this thread its really not. Best ISP ive been with, after ISP hopping for best deal for 10 years Ive just stuck with aquiss for the last 3.

I'm still confused how Aquiss does it's loyalty discount I think it's year 3. So for me year 2 is going to be £45 a month for 300mb. Then hopefully year 3 should be back down to £32 I think it works out at for year 1.