Ready to switch providers again.

Sandycheeks

Sandycheeks

Sandycheeks

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Current deal with Virgin ended. M100 and mix tv. Was paying around £39 pm.
New payment us £58 pm.

Looking at new deals and seen a 67mb fibre deal with TalkTalk for £24.95 pm.
Are Talk Talk ok? I have never used them.

I dont need a phone line and dont need the tv package...the only reason I have them now is that it was cheaper to have them included last time around.

Anyone any experience with TalkTalk or recommend any other provider.
 
My daughter has this. She was paying £29 first year.(her first house and new homeowners deal apparently) Then they bump price up to £54 after a year. I got on the phone and said I'm off on her behalf and got a £34 deal same stuff (TV mix, tivo box, phone line and the 100 Meg) for another year.
 
If you want to pay the contracted rate, take a contract, if you want to pay the retail rate, stick to a 30 day contract, it's pretty much the same with every provider and has been for a long time. If you do want to switch, use Quidco/TCB.
 
I've just phoned up to try to get them to lower the price. Managed to get them down to £41 but I decided to leave anyway as I don't want to be paying that amount, considering I never use the phone line and hardly ever use the TV services.
I'm hoping retention's will give me a call with a better offer but I'm not holding my breath.
Really annoys me that there are "new customer" offers out there that are way better than what they are offering me - a customer of 4 years. I guess loyalty is worth nothing.

I'll just see what is available over the next few weeks.

The rep said my internet usage is very heavy, with 400GB p/m average data usage and I would struggle with anything less than 100Mb speeds. Does this sound about right?
I told him I am looking at deals from about 68Mb upwards.
 
68Mbit allows you to download just under 15TB/month, I think you’ll cope only doing 1/37th of your maximum, let’s be honest, in most cases you can download things faster than you can watch/listen/play them.
 
We do have a few things connected at once...
For instance...

There are times when I might be downloading stuff on the PC and playing Xbox live on the TV. My missus is in bed streaming Netflix on the TV and browsing on her phone and my daughter doing something similar.

Typically our usage is along the lines of:
I am either streaming TV services such as Now TV or Regular Netflix OR playing Xbox or browsing stuff on my phone.
Missus usually watches TV or streams movies and looks at social media.
Daughter is usually streaming youtube music videos AND talking to her mates over facetime or some such.
Son is at uni so is only here for like 4 months of the year - he is constantly hooked up to the internet though when he's here. Online gaming etc...I swear he plugs himself in intravenously.

Obviously there are other things like downloading games (at ~50GB each) etc which pump the usage figure up but I wouldn't say we're any worse than everyone else.
 
Netflix HD is 5-6Mbit, the three of you streaming is going to be under 20Mbit, granted downloading at the same time will obviously result in slower downloads, but that's the trade-off to save a few quid. Start by checking what your line can actually get, you quote 67Mbit which is usually the stated average, you could get more or less.
 
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