Vodafone broadband any good?

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So it seems that Vodafone has the cheapest broadband at the moment, at just £25 for 40 mbit. Does anyone have them? How are they in retards to connection quality, latency and speed?

 

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https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/excellent-fibre-deal-from-vodafone.18789475/#post-31061473

That seems to be a thread on a deal, this is a thread on connection quality.

 

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It's FTTC, the connections don't vary that much I find between providers as they all use Openreach to get to your home. I'm with Vodafone and up until recently there was no way I would have renewed. This was because their Connect router couldn't cope with the number of devices I connected to it, there was no way to swap it for your own and it locked down so many features that you couldn't do much to bypass it.

This has changed now and they give out credentials so you can use your own kit and the newer firmwares have opened up some features. I still think it is a vastly under powered piece of kit for a modern connected home.

Thus one can judge it on price and support on how it differentiates itself. I've had better experiences with support compared to BT. The headline price is obviously very keen but be warned there are a lot of charges that are more expensive than other ISPs if something goes wrong and it's your fault or you want to change something. Credit to @MissChief for pointing these out in another thread:

Vodafone Connect Service & Maintenance charges
Description Charge
Missed engineer appointment charge £110.00
Amend Order (prior to install) £15.00
Late cancellation of order - any time or day after 12pm (noon) two working days before your scheduled visit
£60.00
Connection Charge ( new line provision) £60.00
Connection Charge (for Fibre only) £30.00
Fault within customer premises - first hour charge £115.00
Fault within customer premises - hourly charge (chargeable after the first hour) £52.00
Customer requested service visit - phone socket relocation £130.00
Customer requested service visit - additional phone socket relocation £65.00
Replacement Vodafone Connect router £130
Failure to return Vodafone Connect router (for cancelled orders) £130
Vodafone Connect router returned in a damaged state (other than fair wear and tear)
£55
SureSignal discount removal (for cancelled orders) £40
Special Fault Investigation £150.00
and/or + Special Fault Investigation - Internal wiring issue £35.00
and/or + Special Fault Investigation - Internal equipment issue £22.00
Transfer of account ownership £20.00
Home phone number change £25.00

Do any of those extra charged actually matter, don't think it's likely will even run into any. Also there is £0 one off free, where does that connection charge come from? Is that router you are complaining about their latest router, because from what I see it is quite decent, gigabit Ethernet, ac Wi-Fi, and are there any issues with firewall, network settings, firewall etc...? I know all providers use Openreach, but do they all share the same internal network capacity, so if an area didn't have enough bandwidth would all providers be affected equally or would each provider have separate capacity (so for example a budget provider could suffer lack of bandwidth are therefore throttling compared to a decent provider).

 

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£16.33/m and then knock the Quidco or TCB off and it's stupidly cheap. I've not looked to see what the price difference on going 80/20 would be or even if it's an option, but the £5/simdiscount means you also get decent sim only deals for £2-3/month after cash back and offers.

What is Quidco\TCB? Do you get £150 off plus another £110 voucher?

Sounds like it could be a good deal, although Vodafone does offer a free static ip.

 

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Yeah whatever anyone does, make sure you use TCB for the extra pennies.

I don't trust it, it only saves you a few pounds.

 

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LOL...i've had over £2000 from cashback deals in 5 years using TCB.

The biggest payouts were BT when I initially moved into my current property in 2012 and Sky. Each over £100 a piece.

What is it you don't trust exactly?

As above I've saved around the same as Six using it over the years.

I took a look at what it said on Money Saving Expert and they seems to suggest that the pay outs are not always guaranteed, and with the likes of Vodafone paying £100 towards early cancelation I could only take BT for say 10 months then switch and that might mean I wouldn't get those months' pay out. And with only a few pounds in it is seems like the direct option might be better.

 

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It's £7.16/m after cash back for 52/10, thats stupidly cheap, combined with the sim offers its a no brainer considering what others in the market are doing.

Also neither of the cash back sites operate on a per month basis, you are required to make a certain number of payments before CB is paid, but its rarely 10.

Where do you get £7.16? The deal with the cash back is at their standard price.

 

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If you've read the HUKD thread you'd see where I got £7.16/m, offer price minus BT cash back by redemption, minus Quidco/TCB depending on who you prefer (TCB will match Quidco) averaged over the rental period.

From what I see on that page it says:

• provider/ monthly cost/ one-off installation cost/ reward/ cashback/ effective cost over 12 months

• tcb/ £31.99/ £59.99/ £150.00/ £110.00/ £183.87

• quidco/ £31.99/ £59.99/ £150.00/ £90.00/ £203.87

• mse/ £27.99/ £9.99/ £150.00/ £0.00/ £195.87

 

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If you look further (may have been deleted now as it was technically abuse), you'll see it's possible to stack the MSE price and £150 offer/ £110 cash back with a minor URL modification.

Yes I think those comments have been removed, I am new to this how cash back thing. How do you know if you are going to get the cash back, do you have to log in on their sire or something? Also could you tell me more about stacking the offers?