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  • LadyGnome
    LadyGnome Posts: 801 Forumite
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    I've tasked MrGnome to play around on USwitch as he enjoys bargain hunting... but any M&S vouchers are mine all mine...:rotfl:
    MortgageStart Nov 2012 £310,000
    Oct 2022 £143,277.74
    Reduction £166,722.26
    OriginalEnd Sept 2034 / Current official end Apr 2032 (but I have a cunning plan...)
    2022 MFW #78 £10200/£12000
    MFiT-6 #28 £21,772 /£75000
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,462 Forumite
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    Do you need cable/fibre broadband? As the competition in this space seems to be improving.
  • LadyGnome
    LadyGnome Posts: 801 Forumite
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    We currently have fibre and would like to keep it as the children use the Amazon Fire stick quite a lot.
    MortgageStart Nov 2012 £310,000
    Oct 2022 £143,277.74
    Reduction £166,722.26
    OriginalEnd Sept 2034 / Current official end Apr 2032 (but I have a cunning plan...)
    2022 MFW #78 £10200/£12000
    MFiT-6 #28 £21,772 /£75000
  • edinburgher
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    It was definitely a nice to have when we first got it, not sure I'd like to go back now tho. We only get 4MB or so regular broadband, not sufficient for lag free streaming (and other 1st world problems).
  • katep23
    katep23 Posts: 1,406 Forumite
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    Dropping in to say hello!

    Meh, one of the plus points of the house we bought is that infinity was being installed - then we found out we are fed directly from the exchange and infinity is "fibre to the cabinet" so we can't get it. Jealous of all of you on fibre!
  • AlexLK
    AlexLK Posts: 6,125 Forumite
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    We don't have fibre broadband (don't think we can get it) and our speed is only about 2.5MB. Not noticed any problems but we don't really download anything other than PDFs.
    2018 totals:
    Savings £11,200
    Mortgage Overpayments £5,500
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,462 Forumite
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    katep23 wrote: »
    Dropping in to say hello!

    Meh, one of the plus points of the house we bought is that infinity was being installed - then we found out we are fed directly from the exchange and infinity is "fibre to the cabinet" so we can't get it. Jealous of all of you on fibre!

    I'd rather have regular speed BB if it was available, suspect the prevalence of fibre in our area is a cynical way of making money from people in what is a fairly affluent suburb (well, bar our house!) :rotfl:
  • LadyGnome
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    I think we will stick with Fibre because it is not uncommon to have one person browsing the internet on the laptop, another watching something on the Firestick and a third watching a YouTube video on a phone all at the same time. Not all the time I hasten to add.
    MortgageStart Nov 2012 £310,000
    Oct 2022 £143,277.74
    Reduction £166,722.26
    OriginalEnd Sept 2034 / Current official end Apr 2032 (but I have a cunning plan...)
    2022 MFW #78 £10200/£12000
    MFiT-6 #28 £21,772 /£75000
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Fibre was installed when I lived at my previous house, and I definitely noticed the change, it was much better, more reliable. That was affluent too, mind you (except my house :) ) Oof, just been onto rightmove to have a look at prices there nowadays **facepales**
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,462 Forumite
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    Haha - don't worry KC - I'm already planning our 'downgrade' once DD goes to uni! :) We could get a house in the old fashioned working class area that we had originally looked in for £75k+ less cash. Sad really, if it wasn't for the schools, we could be sub £100k mortgage already :(
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