Plusnet New Unlimited 76Mb Fibre Broadband £19.99 with half price for 6 months.

wayzways

Tired of Talk Talk This will be my Next Venture

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Plusnet have just launched an unlimited fibre deal, so I've finally decided to take the plunge!

Unlimited Fibre Broadband (upto 76Mb down and 19.5Mb up) : £19.99 per month

Phone: £13.99 per month or £10.49 pm with advance annual payment (£125.88) with free weekend and evening calls to landlines.

Connection is free when you take both phone and broadband and you also get half price fibre (£9.99) for 6 months.

There is also £38 TCB/Quidco cashback

18 month contract

No doubt some people will come and cry about their own personal experience with plusnet, the same as we see with all the other providers who have millions of customers, but plusnet in general have a good reputation for customer service (compared with the admittedly poor competition).

When comparing deals, be very careful that you compare like with like. For example Sky's fibre seems to be a similar price, but when you look closer, it's actually 38Mb speed and you don't get free evening calls. Sky charge an extra £10 for 76Mb speed.


£5.99 p&p for the router.

vodkachick68

I'm thinking of changing from talktalk to plusnet in the new year. My internet is soooo slow!! I have just got a cable that plugs into the router and laptop and that seems to be a bit better. What exactly is 76Mb mean? Sorry i'm not really clued up when it comes to internet etc. Is plusnet alot better than talktalk?

HappyMJ

It means "up to" 76Mb. It's a speed. It should be about 8 times faster than your current internet speed so if you getting 4mb you should get at least 32Mb/sec.

Go to a speed checking website and see what sort of speed you currently get. I use http://www.speedtest.net/ myself.

My current download speed right now is 31Mb/sec and my upload speed is 8Mb/sec with Plus.net.

savemoney

I ordered the up to 78mb yesterday according to tests I should get up to 60mb

I just got a phone call from them today they need a mac code from old ISP. Requested one but so far not got one. All being well should have it on 4/01/13 of course that not written in stone

bod1467

Bear in mind that the difference in speed will NOT be linear to your current speed. So if you currently get 5meg you CANNOT assume you'll get 40meg.

For ADSL (in its guises) what matters is the distance from your property to the exchange. For FTTC what matters is the distance to the CABINET ... for some people the cabinet is very close; for others it is more than half the distance to the exchange.

The closer the cabinet, the better the speed you can expect.

blisteringblue

The BT Wholesale checker is best for finding what you might get

https://www.btwholesale.com/pages/static/Community/Broadband_Community/Coverage/ADSL_Availibility_Checker.html

Telling me 80mb but only from March 2013 when we finally get Fibre !! The green cab is about 20 yards from our property !! Can't Wait.

savemoney

I get with BT checker

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 62.2Mbps and upstream line speed of 20Mbps.


I know where cabinet is and as crow flies its 209metre obviously its a lot longer than that even if I follow route of shortest route via road its 306mtres and longest route is 410 metres ist around 5 min walk via quickest route I know they dont always follow quickest direct route

Wayne3765

bod1467 wrote: »

Bear in mind that the difference in speed will NOT be linear to your current speed. So if you currently get 5meg you CANNOT assume you'll get 40meg.

For ADSL (in its guises) what matters is the distance from your property to the exchange. For FTTC what matters is the distance to the CABINET ... for some people the cabinet is very close; for others it is more than half the distance to the exchange.

The closer the cabinet, the better the speed you can expect.

I think I am about 3.5km from the exchange but only about 100 metres from the cabinet in the street , my speed has gone from between 4 to 5 Mb on ADSL to 78Mb on fibre with Plusnet.

Plusnet support have been great too , I had a problem on the order/set up date , I sent a few questions to them and had email and text replies within minutes a couple of times.

bod1467

Wayne3765 wrote: »

I think I am about 3.5km from the exchange but only about 100 metres from the cabinet in the street , my speed has gone from between 4 to 5 Mb on ADSL to 78Mb on fibre with Plusnet.

Exactly my point.
Some people would see a HUGE improvement; others only a (relatively) marginal improvement. EVERYONE should see an improvement though with FTTC.