Am I paying too much?

baward

I am on Plusnet Pro with included 20GB bandwidth, but we always consume above 20Gb in a month, and often use double that, so the bill ends up being £65 - £70 or more per month. This seems pretty steep to me.

I am happy with the quality of the service itself, although we don't get much more than 2 or 3 Mbps - I understand that we can expect 4Mb maximum. Currently speedtest.net shows that we have 1.47Mb, and this poor speed might well contribute to the amount of bandwidth we consume!

Living in the country, we are unable to get Virgin, BT Infinity or any other 'superfast' service so are limited in what choices we make. Am I paying too much? If so, can anyone recommend a solution?

Thank you.

Stompa

baward wrote: »

I am on Plusnet Pro with included 20GB bandwidth, but we always consume above 20Gb in a month, and often use double that, so the bill ends up being £65 - £70 or more per month. This seems pretty steep to me.

Is that just for broadband? If so, it's absolutely extortionate! I pay £14pm for unlimited.

TadleyBaggie

£14 is still too much, I pay £7.50 for no limits.

art_for_arts_sake

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

£14 is still too much, I pay £7.50 for no limits.

Who are you with? I used to pay that on O2 Broadband but I'm paying just over £9 now. I insisted on keeping my original contract which is unlimited, but I think it's unavailable now.

macman

Pro is an uncompetitive legacy tariff. You should switch to Plusnet Extra, which will give you 60GB per month. That will cost you £11.49pm, or £17.99pm after 3 months if on a Market 1 exchange.
You pay a vastly higher rate for the extra usage (£5 per GB) over your monthly 20GB allowance, so staying on Pro if you use that much over 20GB is crazy.
And do an exchange search on https://www.samknows.com to see if you have any LLU providers,

Faith177

I pay £7.50 with Sky for unlimited broadband

Very handy with two gamers in the house :beer:

baward

macman wrote: »

Pro is an uncompetitive legacy tariff. You should switch to Plusnet Extra, which will give you 60GB per month. That will cost you £11.49pm, or £17.99pm after 3 months if on a Market 1 exchange.
You pay a vastly higher rate for the extra usage (£5 per GB) over your monthly 20GB allowance, so staying on Pro if you use that much over 20GB is crazy.

Wow macman and everyone else, very helpful info - you guys will save me loads!

Regards all

baward

macman wrote: »

And do an exchange search on samknows to see if you have any LLU providers,

p.s. samknows tells me that LLU services are indeed available for our exchange (I'd post a results of the search url but am unable to do so as I'm clearly new here.)

Thanks again macman!

macman

What are your LLU options (hopefully not just TalkTalk)?

Obviously_the_best

https://www.bethere.co.uk or broadband.orange.co.uk are both low cost totally unlimited (and I mean totally) broadband providers.

macman

But Be may not be available on the OP's exchange.
Sky is also unlimited, but the same proviso appies.
Orange is now just a BT reseller, they have abandoned LLU. And are one of the lowest rated ISP's around.