City Fibre

So my Sky 900mb fibre broadband contract is coming to an end soon much earlier than I expected with the price going up to quite a ridiculous level(to be honest it wasn't really that cheap in the first place). They've said they can't really do much better on the price front so I already told them we're probably just going to be swapping then. City Fibre finally got set up and became orderable a few months back so I've been looking into their providers. I noticed a few people mentioning No One which seems a great deal at £29.99 with no in contract price rises. Has anyone got any experiences with them and how a set up would work if I've already got a Openreach ONT (I already know they can't/don't use that). I work from home a lot, and its mostly online work, so I'm ideally wanting as minimal upheaval and internet downtime as possible. I don't have any experience with alt nets at all, so I guess there's a slight bit of apprehension haha.

If you order CF they'll install a new line and ONT, so in theory depending when you order new service and cut off your Sky connection you'd have no downtime.

no one gets good reviews on here and I'll be moving to them next month.
 
Order no-one, wait for it to be installed and activated, and then cancel Sky.

They will pull a new fibre to the house, and then do the internal work to put the ONT where you want it (within reason, they won't pull up floor boards etc).
Right cool, does carrying over a existing phone number change the process? The phone line is already digital (had to be swapped when we went with FTTP in the first place) but we're paying for a talk package with Sky at the moment(comes to the end at the same time as the internet though).
 
Right cool, does carrying over a existing phone number change the process? The phone line is already digital (had to be swapped when we went with FTTP in the first place) but we're paying for a talk package with Sky at the moment(comes to the end at the same time as the internet though).
No idea, I haven't had a home phone for years.
 
If you start a number port then it will look to Sky like it's a broadband migration order and will cease that as well. So find a new provider for your phone and port the number, it's a separate process to whatever you do with your fibre, there's no Openreach -> Cityfibre migration process yet.

Aim for a couple of weeks overlap of the services, paying twice is better than having 3-4 days without a connection.
 
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If you start a number port then it will look to Sky like it's a broadband migration order and will cease that as well. So find a new provider for your phone and port the number, it's a separate process to whatever you do with your fibre, there's no Openreach -> Cityfibre migration process yet.

Aim for a couple of weeks overlap of the services, paying twice is better than having 3-4 days without a connection.
Yeah, my plan was to get it going the soonest they can early next month and then it should be up and running 2-3 weeks before Sky is set to end. No one seems to offer phone services as well so I was just going to let them manage it really since it seemed reasonably priced anyway.

Hopefully it'll go smoothly, for the price difference it's hard to say no. Sky was basically wanting double of the No one price...
 
If you order CF they'll install a new line and ONT, so in theory depending when you order new service and cut off your Sky connection you'd have no downtime.

no one gets good reviews on here and I'll be moving to them next month.
I'm fixed with plusnet for another 12 months at £28 p/m & they want £150 to leave early, I get 52mb down and 18mb up.

I just had a look at no one broadband they are offering 900 Mbit/s with fixed IP at a reduced £29.99 a month.

I just need to work out if it is worth paying the early repayment charge for the faster speeds.

I can remember back in 2006 when I moved in my property and had to tweak the SNR on an old DG834 router to increase the speed from 512 Kbps to 1mb lol.
 
£150 to switch from 50 Mbps down and 18 Mbps up to 900 Mbps synchronous seems like a bargain to me if you would use the extra bandwidth and stability which full fibre provides.
 
any of the cityfibre suppliers on rolling contact? shortest i can find is 18 months!

Depends on the provider but most of them are 18-24 months and the ones offering lower it's not worth it because of the price they charge.

Check the different providers a few of them now offer fixed prices making 18-24m not bad.

My parents are still stuck the prices are so high and they want a landline in which providers want to charge silly money for or do not offer one.
 
any of the cityfibre suppliers on rolling contact? shortest i can find is 18 months!

Monthy rolling providers avalible to me, They might be avalible to you:

Yayzi ( Don't recommend based on reviews )
AAISP ( Way too expensive but great CS )
IDnet ( I read they have latency issues during peak hours they may have got that sorted now idk )
Giganet ( When i signed up they had monthly rolling option. I left them though they changed their network and moved me on to CGNAT you can get a static IP but was annoyed i wasn't given prior notice before the switch. )
 
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I'm looking to change to full fibre 900. Currently with Plusnet 36mb.

Vodafone put an offer through my door, also seen "No One" online offer at same price.

Anyone has experience with Vodafone full fibre? I've seen a few positive comments on "No One"

Can get £75 cashback with Quidco so more tempting if it's decent enough. (Voda)
 
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I'm looking to change to full fibre 900. Currently with Plusnet 36mb.

Vodafone put an offer through my door, also seen "No One" online offer at same price.

Anyone has experience with Vodafone full fibre? I've seen a few positive comments on "No One"

Can get £75 cashback with Quidco so more tempting if it's decent enough. (Voda)
I have had Vodafone for 3 months. No problems so far. I dont game much but when I do its P2P fighting games so cant comment on peering.
 
I'm looking to change to full fibre 900. Currently with Plusnet 36mb.

Vodafone put an offer through my door, also seen "No One" online offer at same price.

Anyone has experience with Vodafone full fibre? I've seen a few positive comments on "No One"

Can get £75 cashback with Quidco so more tempting if it's decent enough. (Voda)

Voda are awful.

I had dealt with them many times and they are on par with VM how bad they are.

A few people I know have lost landline numbers because of them.

The other negatives are they only offer 24 month plus the router is garbage also no compensation if you have issues with CityFibre.

Do you have a full list of the providers available to you?
 
Anyone has experience with Vodafone full fibre?
Been with them since March last year for FTTP and used them before for FTTC, connection is indistinguishable from previous BT fibre connection in either speed, uptime or latency, rock solid, no issues. One issue I had a few years back with FTTC had a call to their support and an engineer out the next day and fixed.

Also TCB are offering £120 at the mo, much better than the quidco offer.
 
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Been with them since March last year for FTTP and used them before for FTTC, connection is indistinguishable from previous BT fibre connection in either speed, uptime or latency, rock solid, no issues. One issue I had a few years back with FTTC had a call to their support and an engineer out the next day and fixed.

Also TCB are offering £120 at the mo, much better than the quidco offer.

Good spot on cashback

When you factor in the CPI+ increases over the 24 month contract the cashback may not cover that cost (lots of reports of it being declined by Voda as well)

If everything was equal I would go with No One (UK support and better router also price is locked plus good to support smaller business)
 
Good spot on cashback

When you factor in the CPI+ increases over the 24 month contract the cashback may not cover that cost (lots of reports of it being declined by Voda as well)
I've had 4 cashback deals on TCB with VF over the years, all tracked and paid - got £90 last march for the sign up, no other providers at that time could come close to the price, £29 for 500. On a side note, i've rarely had a TCB claim rejected in 11 years and £3.6k payouts, the rejections were normally me chancing promo codes on top with various retailers :D

As you say though, the CPI price increases quickly add up and i'm on £36 at the moment for the same connection after two rises.

All that said, i've got no loyalty to VF, i'll be taking the next good deal around when my contract is up. I did go on live chat the other week and I can break contract 6 months early for as little as £60'ish so the right cashback deal could have me moving earlier.
 
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