Halve broadband costs or treble the speed

There's obviously something wrong with the speed checker, as it says I get 55Mb, pretty good on a line that I know can only achieve 17Mb.

Come on MSE, please sort this out.

Well, just tried it again and get 48Mb, so something not right with it.

keithscott1 wrote: »

Clicking on the BT link and it offers £125 Mastercard and not £200 as stated on the MSE site. The expiry date's the coming Thursday.

Yes, since I signed up to BT Infinity on 16 May and that particular deal ended, BT have now dropped the £200 reward card down to £125.

I guess I'm fortunate, even though I'm still awaiting to be transferred to BT, I will still get the £200 card as that is what the agreement was when I signed up. I've read stories of people who later went to claim their reward card which was for a higher amount, to see that when they actually started their claim, it showed for a lower amount because the deal had changed. It doesn't matter, the card for the amount you signed up to the deal for is actually sent as customers who later claimed have testified.

Anyway, my own transfer from Plusnet to BT is progressing and I haven't picked up a telephone once to talk to anyone. Even though I was still in contract (only a week left to run) with Plusnet, because of their published price rise, there's no early termination charges. All being well, I should be up and running by the end of the month. I see these days, they don't even bother to change your telephone number anymore, it just transfers between companies as long as you are staying on the same exchange.

As I also mentioned in an earlier post, definitely worth joining Topcashback. I did and will earn £80 on top of the discounts and reward card that BT are throwing at me. Taking those rewards into account and BT's own new customer discount rate and line rental, my phone call package (not that I will ever use it) and 52mb unlimited fibre and the upfront charge for the new BT Smart Hub, it comes to £12.70 a month. Not bad for 10 minutes keyboard work and being bothered to switch.

I'll just have to remember to switch at the end of the 12 month contract!

With the deal I've just taken out with BT, it's a 12 month contract anyway, so the line rental aspect doesn't come into it as far as paying in advance is concerned. Indeed, I couldn't even see that option being available when I signed up online. I can't see how I could possibly have saved anything further on the deal, especially with the reward card and the Topcashback.

I have to admit, I do like using webchat for certain things. Useful for giving notice to end your contract. I did that the last time I was with BT, gave notice by webchat and the bloke in the call centre tried to tell me I couldn't do that and that I would have to speak with retentions. I told him he was talking rubbish and that I would have a record of the webchat conversation and we left it at that. I then swapped to Plusnet. Now I'm swapping back to BT, a never ending merry go round!