Updated Find the cheapest broadband discussion thread

Mikeymojo

I'm looking for fibre broadband and wondered if anyone has any experience of the new fixed deals from talktalk which seem to be good value given that the set up etc is included.
Also, the 'Now TV' deals look appealing.
Anybody know?

Bevsheppard26

We switched to sky broadband in march. The deal was £5 set up fee then £10 a month, but also came a £50 credit so you don't actually pay anything for 5 months! It's a 12 month contract. But like I said we switched in march so I don't know if the same deal is still available, but worth a look.

csgohan4

if your contract is finishing in 6-18 weeks for broadband, can you get a new provider like BT to start after your minimum contract ends for example? or do they have a maximum time period to install?

Doc_N

AnotherPaul wrote: »

Thanks for that anactuary person
The "advertised speed" for TT's normal broadband is 17mb and for their fibre-optic is 38mb - so I was hoping to get more than 2mb out of it. But when I think about it - 2mb would be DOUBLE than my actual 1mb is at the moment - so at least that part of the conversation would be right

I'm tied in with the whole deal with TT - TT International Anytime is the telephone/broadband deal as a package. I'm reluctant to move away to another broadband provider because I'd lose such a great deal on the telephone side of things.

Thanks again.

Paul

If it's of any interest to anyone, TalkTalk have recently increased my upload speed from just under 2 mbps to just under 9 mbps - I presume they're doing this across the country.

Huge improvement, at no extra cost.


"These days we’re doing more and more with the internet, and for a smoother online experience you need a faster upload speed. That’s why we’ve made yours up to 5x faster. Meaning you can do everything you love online, all at once.

So now you can video call whilst the family streams the latest Hollywood blockbuster in the other room, win win.

And we’ve already set this up for you at no extra cost. So you can just enjoy your faster internet."

TheGame21

Our contract is finishing with BT and we are looking for fibre broadband with anytime calls. Had a look on broadband choices and it comes up with £37.50 p/m with John Lewis at 38 mb/s. Does anyone know of any better deals. I will try to haggle with BT but just thought I'd check what my options are.

We have been with Plusnet before but the service was terrible so apprehensive about going with them again.

dave111

best fibre and phone deal?
think its BT infinitity via Topcashback?

M271

dave111 wrote: »

best fibre and phone deal?
think its BT infinitity via Topcashback?

I have been with Sky Broadband for many years but have this afternoon signed up online for BT Infinity 1 Fibre + BT Sports HD through my Sky Box. 12 month contract.

Bought through Topcashback £29.99 per month (shows as £34.99 on BT web site) for Infinity 1 and weekend calls including Line Rental + £10 BT Sport + £5 HD so £44.99 a month. HD free for first 3 months so initially £39.99.

£90 cashback via Topcashback and £150 BT Mastercard rewards card, which effectively gives me £240 cashback, or can see it as a £20 a month discount for the 12 months so £24.99 month. If didn't have BT sports would be effectively be £9.99 per month (£359.88 - £240 cashback = £119.88 / 12)

BT Sport aready on my Sky Box, 2 weeks before Fibre activation date.

TheGame21

DavidP24 wrote: »

Do you really use phone, if so do you want Anytime or what included?

To give you benchmark with just weekend calls I have seen BT offer

78mb Fibre for £29.99 including line rental 12m contract
52mb Fibre for £20.99 including line rental 18m contract

These deals came and went but it shows you what can be achieved if you can hang about

Thanks, yes we do need the anytime calls. Do you also have to give notice if you leaving BT even though your contract is expiring or do you just sign up to a new provider if you don't get a deal with them?

1567823

At least you have the option to try for other services in your area. In the City of Culture 2017 there is only one ISP provider, they are called KCOM. I pay nearly £40 a month for 100GB download on a standard broadband line, if I try any of the providers, they just say the same, 'Sorry we are not in your area'

Doc_N

DavidP24 wrote: »

There is a simple answer to that, vote with your feet and MOVE!

Every time I hear that City of Culture crap I laugh, Hull is an armpit of the UK, it is a place they try to send people who have been forced to move because of bedroom tax.

Putting lipstick on a pig does not stop it being a pig.

As I say, MOVE!

Do not forget you have to declare any impediment of buying your property via your solicitor to other side, this would seem to be one. Hey if you moved to Hull from outside area you could sue them for not telling you!!

What a ludicrous, biased, opinionated and uninformed rant that is. The sort of nonsense that usually comes from people who've never set foot in Hull, or at best have only spent a very short time there, in a bad part of it, many years ago.

Why not open your mind, visit it now (it really is a very fine city, with incredibly friendly people, and a great deal going on this year in particular) and perhaps look a little less silly than your post above makes you look.

I don't live anywhere near it, by the way, but I visit regularly and I know what a great city it is - and an infinitely better place to live than most places within a 100 mile radius of London!

The property market hasn't been destroyed for younger local people by buy to let speculators either, so young people are still able to buy very nice houses in very nice parts of the city (despite your puerile rant, there are plenty of those) instead of having to shell out most of their income in rent for a scruffy, tiny, unpleasant flat.

To be fair, though, there is one downside - KCOM.