Broadband Internet & ISP Recommendations?

Happy with the service but I'm getting sick of Virgin's continual 10%+ price increases.

Any suggestions for fast (100 meg upwards) unlimited broadband in an area where BT Infinity isn't available? Initial research seems to suggest it's Virgin or nothing.

I think that's basically it.

If you can get fibre then BT, Sky, and everyone else will give you that. And they'll all be the same speed and essentially the same service (possibly with a call centre in a different location).

If it's not fibre then it's cable, and that means Virgin.

Any thoughts on Plusnet? They offer 38mb for 330gbp for first year..

Will be identical to BT as they'll use their infrastructure.

Have a look at Quidco to see if you can get some money off. I ended up with a £100 voucher and £150 cashback for moving from Sky. Service is identical.
http://www.quidco.com/bt-broadband/

Worth bearing in mind that although the service will be the same from resellers of BT's broadband, you might find that support is worse. We switched from BT to O2 for our homeworkers' broadband and we've found Openreach (who do all the onsite visits and infrastructure repairs, whether it's BT or an alternative) treat non-BT calls as lower priority.

We have already paid. Waiting to get it installed. I'll report back!

In a bit of a pickle, we are currently with Virgin but are off travelling in April. Now I can get out of the Virgin contract this month due to the price hike which leaves me with BB for a few months was looking at rolling contracts but not sure how good there are or how long they might take to sort out. What other options are out there, would need BB mainly during the evening and weekends.

How much are you downloading? Could get a mobile/4G connection for a month or two
Something like
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ee-100gb-x-2-months-4g-data-still-works-10-top-up-required-2366028

I've got 'up to 76mb' with Plusnet and it was 81mb last time I checked. Very happy with the product but they put their line rental up so we're paying £38 a month which I feel is a lot.

The problem is I don't want slower broadband, I just want to pay less. #firstworldproblems

Thanks will take a peek

I know the feeling. @JesperXT was telling me he has 80mb fiber for 8gbp pr month in Copenhagen..

100Mbit/s and £8, actually. Sometimes I miss my old place: Almost unlimited access to the Danish Internet Exchange and £10...

#firstworldproblems

I've got 'up to 76mb' with Plusnet and it was 81mb last time I checked. Very happy with the product but they put their line rental up so we're paying £38 a month which I feel is a lot.

It is a lots when you considered Virgin with 100mb for £35, slightly cheaper with phone line.

Gonna switch to them after our contract with Plusnet is over (we're on 10mb with unlimited download).

Hi! After living in our flat for 5 years with no proper internet I've decided to stop being a Scrooge and sign up for something. Also 3mobile have terminated my 'one' plan with unlimited tethering... Grrr

My street isn't on the fiber network, so looking at different options but they all seem a bit pony (and expensive)

So it may be the best of a bad bunch but can anyone recommend a no nonsense provider? It has to be a standard phone line rental service type thing. I'm looking for:

unlimited down/up
No (or minimal) throttling
Good customer service
Not screamingly fast. I've been using mobile internet so anything seems rapid to me.
Reasonably priced, preferably under £30 per month

any advice or experience shared would be massively appreciated, Thanks!

Just signed up with Plusnet’s basic broadband package.

£70 installation, £27 per month, 12 month contract.

Have been promised between 6 and 15MB, a couple of speed tests claim I’m getting 8 / 9MB, which is fine for me. I’ll form an opinion after a few months based on consistency.

Bailed from a TalkTalk contract a few months ago in previous address after the speed dropped to 0.7MB and they told me “yes sir, that is the correct speed”. Clowns.

Are all WiFi analyser apps pretty much the same does anyone know? Would like to test signal strength around the flat.

BT finally upgrading my cabinet to Infinity, just the 5 years after they originally said they were doing it. Will get BT TV at the same time.

Reminds me, need to get the TV aerials on the roof sorted out.

Any recommendations for a good ISP who aren't a total PITA to switch to?

Also whats the best way to get a bad phoneline looked at / repaired / replaced?

My EE supplied router isn't cutting it anymore. Can anyone recommend a wireless DSL router with good WiFi range? <£40 if possible

Anyone on vodaphone?

Virgin Media can go fuck themselves.

There's an "area capacity problem" which means 200mbps is more like 20kbps in peak times. It will be fixed.... On APRIL 8TH!!!?!

Apparently someone called Steve can call me to help increase my speed a little in the meantime. I think he may be the only engineer in Virgin Media as he's next available on Jan 26th.

To compensate me for unusable Internet for 4 months, I'm being credited £10 of my £53 a month.

Cunts.

I don't know if they cover your area, but hyperoptics are a bloody good shout for broadband. I get around 90mbps, this is in comparison to BT who said they could get 20mbps, but when I used them it showed 1.3mbps...

Nope. Not available

Don't worry

Out in the sticks we only have copper cables!

My wife's business needs all the satellite broadband we can get (£90 pcm for 40 gb of data) I am not allowed to use this at all.

I am having to use a 3 mobile contract with unlimited data - but it only lets me tether my laptop for 30 gb a month.

For watching tv on demand we have to use another 3 mobile phone and mirror it to the tv for Netflix and Amazon video. Annoyingly the sky go app will not let us output to a tv screen.

Yep same here in turnpike lane