Origin Broadband Recommendation

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Morning All,

I have recently gone with a company called Origin Broadband for my internet and wanted to pass on the recommendation to you all.

I live in South Yorkshire which has recently had a government grant to roll out fibre optic broadband across the whole of the county. This was carried out by a company called Thales/South Yorkshire Digital Region. Currently, the majority of Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster have been enabled for this service, with only handfull of ISP's currently selling it.

I went with Origin after a recommendation from a friend and they turned out to be fantastic. Im paying £33pcm for their 40meg package with line rental (£22 for the internet and £11 for line rental) and it is truelly unlimited and uncapped. My speed varies slightly between 36 - 40meg. Upload is capped to 2meg, however they do offer a 10meg upload option.

This essentially use's the same infrastructure as the BT infinity service, however Thales have their own equipment in the cabinets.

For me its a great alternative to using BT as im lead to believe the do cap their service even though they advertise otherwise.

More Info:
http://www.origin-broadband.co.uk/
http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/

P.S I do not work for Origin, im just a seriously chuffed customer :p
 
I can't wait any longer for fibre optic. :( Is there a list I can check to see when it will arrive in my area? Currently get this:

DownStream Connection Speed 16828 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 980 kbps

Origin do sound promising as well, thanks for the heads up. :D
 
I can't wait any longer for fibre optic. :( Is there a list I can check to see when it will arrive in my area? Currently get this:

DownStream Connection Speed 16828 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 980 kbps

Origin do sound promising as well, thanks for the heads up. :D

Im pressuming you live in the South Yorkshire area? I think there's a postcode checker on the Origin website.
 
I can't wait any longer for fibre optic. :( Is there a list I can check to see when it will arrive in my area? Currently get this:

DownStream Connection Speed 16828 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 980 kbps

Origin do sound promising as well, thanks for the heads up. :D

I'll swap your 16Mb for my 3Mb. :eek:
 
I went with Origin after a recommendation from a friend and they turned out to be fantastic. Im paying £33pcm for their 40meg package with line rental (£22 for the internet and £11 for line rental) and it is truelly unlimited and uncapped. My speed varies slightly between 36 - 40meg. Upload is capped to 2meg, however they do offer a 10meg upload option.

I've been looking at them myself for a couple of weeks and plan to switch when I've got £100 to spare for the connection fee and 1st months payment.

But you say you pay £33 a month, £22 for the connection and £11 line rental, but looking at their packages it mentions nothing about line rental as an additional cost, unless you're refering to their VOIP phone package?

Also how far away from your local cabbinet are you? (It shows you which one you're connected to on their website with the postcode checker).
 
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I've been looking at them myself for a couple of weeks and plan to switch when I've got £100 to spare for the connection fee and 1st months payment.

But you say you pay £33 a month, £22 for the connection and £11 line rental, but looking at their packages it mentions nothing about line rental as an additional cost, unless you're refering to their VOIP phone package?

Also how far away from your local cabbinet are you? (It shows you which one you're connected to on their website with the postcode checker).

Yes I pay my line rental through Origin instead of BT and get the VOIP package.

Im 600 meters away from the cabinet. Since I initially posted up this thread, My speed has increased slightly. Im now getting a stable connection speed between 40meg and 45meg.
 
Wish I'd heard about these guys back in June when I moved into my new flat. I now have an O2 package that costs £25 a month, and yields around 7mbps down and 1mbps up. It's very stable and no limits, but still... :(
 
I can't wait any longer for fibre optic. :( Is there a list I can check to see when it will arrive in my area? Currently get this:

DownStream Connection Speed 16828 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 980 kbps

Origin do sound promising as well, thanks for the heads up. :D


Some people are never happy lol, you'r speeds are gonna be faster than the majority of ADSL customers across the country :p
 
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