Vodafone Gigafast

Dallibab · 25 Mar 2021 at 09:46

Mine sorted its self out after a week or so, cant complain even with their standard router I have lots of IOT devices connected and its been rock solid.

https://imgur.com/znV8Ous

Vince · 25 Mar 2021 at 10:11

Been in for a good few days now:

Speed wise I haven't yet seen it drop below 930

Dallibab · 25 Mar 2021 at 10:37

Cant complain at that

xb8browney · 25 Mar 2021 at 10:40

I'd love that

Vince · 25 Mar 2021 at 10:52

Dallibab said:
Cant complain at that

xb8browney said:
I'd love that

The days of waiting for things are truly over! It's a bit silly for residential but awesome!

xb8browney · 25 Mar 2021 at 10:53

It's priced so well aswell imo.

Trifid · 25 Mar 2021 at 11:34

xb8browney said:
It's priced so well aswell imo.

Not anymore now they bundle in a 5G backup service. £50 for 200Mb is a big jump from 100Mb for £26. I'll stil move over, but it will be on a slower package then I'd otherwise go for.

Caged · 25 Mar 2021 at 11:47

I don't think you have to buy the pro service

Edit: Oh that does appear to have changed. Interesting decision.

Vince · 25 Mar 2021 at 14:10

Trifid said:
Not anymore now they bundle in a 5G backup service. £50 for 200Mb is a big jump from 100Mb for £26. I'll stil move over, but it will be on a slower package then I'd otherwise go for.

Im paying £46 for the 900mb package £50 for 200mb seems crazy. £36 I could have had 500mb.

Caged · 25 Mar 2021 at 14:15

I'd pay £50 for a symmetric 200Mbps to be fair. I'm not sure that £46 for symmetric gigabit is sustainable so these Pro plans might be a way of increasing the margin.

Vince · 25 Mar 2021 at 14:16

Caged said:
I'd pay £50 for a symmetric 200Mbps to be fair. I'm not sure that £46 for symmetric gigabit is sustainable so these Pro plans might be a way of increasing the margin.

I havent even seen the pro plans - Perhaps I need to have a look.

Well - Where are all my extras lol? 4g backup and such? Looks like you can no longer just have 900mb without signing up to loads of extra guff. When I ordered the person didn't even know 900 was a thing.

Caged · 25 Mar 2021 at 14:25

I think it's likely that could just be a website error and the non-pro plans are still available, because it makes Vodafone artificially expensive if you're doing a comparison with other ISPs that use the same fibre networks.

Vince · 25 Mar 2021 at 14:27

Caged said:
I think it's likely that could just be a website error and the non-pro plans are still available, because it makes Vodafone artificially expensive if you're doing a comparison with other ISPs that use the same fibre networks.

Yea it seems odd - Im on CityFibre and voda were easily the cheapest for gigabit, in fact it seemed a bit too good to be true. Hopefully they can still deliver this gigabit service to others for that same £46 (48 if you aren't already a voda customer).

Vince · 25 Mar 2021 at 14:31

I put my details in to check and all the packages have changed:

And this is what it looked like before, or at least I took this screenshot when I ordered:

Cyber-Mav · 26 Mar 2021 at 18:41

Yikes thats some major price hikes. Im Iucky i got in when i did and that its a 24month contract. Hopefully renewal time they sort out a deal.

Shac · 28 Mar 2021 at 03:50

Fibre laid in my area just waiting for it to be switched on. Or at least I was until these price hikes.
I was planning on the 200 Mb option for around 35 per month I believe.
If they do some future deals I will consider them but I think until that happens they can keep it at these prices.

Cyber-Mav · 28 Mar 2021 at 13:00

They probably full now so put up price to slow or stop over subscription?

Trifid · 28 Mar 2021 at 21:25

In December you could get 500mb for £35.

Cyber-Mav · 28 Mar 2021 at 21:50

Trifid said:
In December you could get 500mb for £35.

thats what i signed up for currently.
its possible its just a temp price hike and come friday they drop it back to "normal" saying its a easter special. also since in my area vodafone have exclusivity to the network for now it be interesting to see what happens when their contract is up and other providers get opened up to it.

JasonM · 30 Mar 2021 at 05:44

Does Vodafone Gigafast offer static IP to residential customers?