Very much this, on the mainstream comparison websites they only returned TalkTalk. Upon checking CityFibre directly, there were several other options that did not come up on uSwitch or similar.
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Yeah i've been using the Cityfibre checker to see what providers i can sign up to. This is the list for my road apparently.
VODAFONE
TALKTALK
GIGANET
ZEN INTERNET
FIBREHOP
OCTAPLUS
NO ONE
YAYZI
IDNET
GIGABIT NETWORKS
FACTCO
A&A
LINK
No One seems to be in the middle in regards to pricing for 900/900 but Static IP is standard. 900/900 is showing as £38.99 for 24 months with the price guarantee of no increase for length of contract. Talk Talk for 900/900 is pricing me at £45pm.
Any recommendations in that list or any to avoid? I read Zen's customer service has gone downhill?
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I'm on Giganet, UK based helplines, I had a lot of issue coming online but this wasn't them and more cityfibre, being cityfibre (blocked duckts etc) £40 month but only 12 month contract, with first 3 months free bascially works out at £30 a month, for that contract.
You have to pay for Static IPs but it's only a coulpe of quid and with the 3 months free it balances out being cheaper. I remember tham also having a no contract option back when I signed up but you had to pay for connection if you went that route.
Not in my 2nd year and i've still not had any price rises, can't comment too much about customer service not really had any issues that warrented me calling them. But when i have reasonably quick to answer and like I said all based in the UK which was good.
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beware they changed this so the 3 months is now at the end. Also you are not tied into 12 months, you are price locked for 12 months as you can give 30 days anytime.
My 3 free months are soon to finish so i am looking to switch. I was given £50 by cityfibre for connecting, so the last 3 months, cityfibre actually paid me to use their network
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beware they changed this so the 3 months is now at the end. Also you are tied into 12 months, you are price locked for 12 months.
My 3 free months are soon to finish so i am looking to switch. I was given £50 by cityfibre for connecting, so the last 3 months, cityfibre actually paid me to use their network
Ah yeh, must have changed since I joined, i'm sticking with them for now, the price difference at this level is negligible all around the same price from all providers and i've had 0 issues with them.
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My 24 month contract finishes in a few weeks with Vodafone for the 900 package and I'm looking around at providers. One thing I'm not keen on is switching routers and having to reconnect everything in the house. Is there a way to avoid that, like rename the new router the same as the out going one and set the same password?
No One looks interesting and are fairly priced at 38.99/month for 24 months on the 900.
No One looks interesting and are fairly priced at 38.99/month for 24 months on the 900.
If it's Wi-Fi you could change the SSID and password on the new router to match the old one, that should be enough.
This is why it's sometimes good to run your own router and/or Access Points, then all you have to change is WAN connectivity setting.
Just had No One installed. Appointment was scheduled for PM (13:00 - 18:00) City Fibre guys were great. Clean install. Had to wait for a MEWP to run the fibre from the pole, but they arrived at 13:15 and was gone at 14:30.
Went for 900/900 for £38.99. Using the supplied router at the moment, but will get my OPNSesne box setup the weekend.
Went for 900/900 for £38.99. Using the supplied router at the moment, but will get my OPNSesne box setup the weekend.
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My Virgin Media contract is up in mid August so I'm looking around at cityfibre which is available in my area. How does anyone decide which firm to go with other than price?
I know a few won't do mid contract rises which is somewhat attractive. Others seem to share IP addresses which seems to increase latency on gaming?
Just wondering if anyone who has been through that journey can offer some advice.
My kit at the moment is the superhub 3 in modem mode connected to an Asus ac3200 and then a switch into some ethernet cables.
I'm paying 42.50 at the moment for 200mb but get 350mb because I have an o2 sim. I also get a free sim which I am not totally too fussed about as it has minimal data. I also have a telephone voip which I don't care too much for either. No TV.
I know a few won't do mid contract rises which is somewhat attractive. Others seem to share IP addresses which seems to increase latency on gaming?
Just wondering if anyone who has been through that journey can offer some advice.
My kit at the moment is the superhub 3 in modem mode connected to an Asus ac3200 and then a switch into some ethernet cables.
I'm paying 42.50 at the moment for 200mb but get 350mb because I have an o2 sim. I also get a free sim which I am not totally too fussed about as it has minimal data. I also have a telephone voip which I don't care too much for either. No TV.
The general concencus seems to be https://no one.co.uk/
Static IP, UK customer service etc.
Fabulous. I'll check them out.
just wondering who on the cityfibre network is using their own routers instead of the ISP supplied one and getting the anticipated speeds?
I'm having some speed issues using my own routers on the Vodafone/Cityfibre network which seems to work fine on their supplied router which easily maxes out the 900mb/s in every speedtest.net test.
Initially I was using an Asus AC87U router and this would max out between 400-500mb/s. On researching about this, the Asus is quite ageing and that could be the limit of the internal single core CPU. So I bought a much upgraded Draytek Vigor 2865 which the specs state should be good for 950mb/s WAN. Frustratingly this is also testing at 400-500mb/s. This is on default settings and with HW acceleration on. The log in details are the PPPOE credentials that VF provided and I have set VLAN=911 and MTU=1492.
I'm having some speed issues using my own routers on the Vodafone/Cityfibre network which seems to work fine on their supplied router which easily maxes out the 900mb/s in every speedtest.net test.
Initially I was using an Asus AC87U router and this would max out between 400-500mb/s. On researching about this, the Asus is quite ageing and that could be the limit of the internal single core CPU. So I bought a much upgraded Draytek Vigor 2865 which the specs state should be good for 950mb/s WAN. Frustratingly this is also testing at 400-500mb/s. This is on default settings and with HW acceleration on. The log in details are the PPPOE credentials that VF provided and I have set VLAN=911 and MTU=1492.
