Changing Fibre broadband providers

I can't comment on Talktalk router's I'm afraid as I have never used one.

I've used O2, Sky, BT and Virgin Routers and they have all been dreadful for me.

My friend and I used to work for BT and we did some digging into the Router they supply, and it was absolute rubbish.

Fair play if TalkTalk have bucked the trend and actually supplied good hardware.

ISPs provide pretty decent hardware, however it's the software operating on the routers which cause most of the problems that people experience. Services like UPnP, DHCP and firewalls are often buggy, broken or out of date and firmware updates to fix these issues are few and far between.

Unfortunately it's even an issue which affects a lot of the £100+ consumer routers you can purchase.

Good thing 3rd-party firmware projects like Tomato are around.

Albear wrote:
Errkal wrote:Buying a new router is pointless. If you want to improve wireless buy a wireless AP they cost like £20 and give the performance increase with none of the hassle.

I disagree, That will work until the ISP provided Router throws a fit.

which it will, because it cost £5

I have used the Sky hub thing for about 3 years without an issue, I have 2 wireless AP's to wireless and I use my home media server to do DNS and DHCP, the router just acts as a gateway to the web and hasn't had any issues. I had issues with BT when I was with them, but I just shouted at them until they sent a new one for free.

Errkal wrote:
Albear wrote:
Errkal wrote:Buying a new router is pointless. If you want to improve wireless buy a wireless AP they cost like £20 and give the performance increase with none of the hassle.

I disagree, That will work until the ISP provided Router throws a fit.

which it will, because it cost £5

I have used the Sky hub thing for about 3 years without an issue, I have 2 wireless AP's to wireless and I use my home media server to do DNS and DHCP, the router just acts as a gateway to the web and hasn't had any issues. I had issues with BT when I was with them, but I just shouted at them until they sent a new one for free.

I have to say I can't complain about sky either , yet anyway. Been with them for broadband for nearly two years and other than a random outage here and there which literally lasts a minute and is rare everything else has been awesome.

Fair enough, I am in the overwhelming minority so will have to accept defeat on this one. :lol:

I've personally found all the one's I have received to be awful, but glad others are happy with theirs.

Albear wrote:Fair enough, I am in the overwhelming minority so will have to accept defeat on this one.

I've personally found all the one's I have received to be awful, but glad others are happy with theirs.

it's all hit and miss really for some i think and probably depending on the hardware versions you get. I had BT before sky and i had so many weird little problems with the router they provided but again some didn't. I might just be lucky so far with my setup but its been pretty good to date .

My Virgin broadband is going up again in November, to £33! I'm quite annoyed and I'm wondering if I can get a better deal elsewhere.

You wnt get the 100 mb + speeds but if you want to cut the bills then yeah you can get much cheaper.

I don't do any online gaming. What I do do (do do do) every day is watch Netflix. Maybe a film, or a few eps of whichever box set I'm watching at the time. Do I really need 100mb for that?

Nope. a 38mb fibre package would be fine, hell a normal ADSL broadband package would be fine for that. Netflix say you need at least 2mb I think so any broadband will be fine. Just for streaming full whack virgin fibre is overkill.

EDIT: 3 mb for SD 5 for HD

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

Thanks, I thought so. There's a decent package with a 25gb monthly limit; could you give me a rough idea of how much streaming I could do with that? Several hours a day?

Dont get a limited package you will regret it.

25gb a month. The horror.

hahaha yeah, I've used over 200gb this week!!

I don't download, I don't use a computer. Only Netflix on Wii U.

You stream stuff that will rinse your limit, as I said do not get a limited package.

Aye, you'd be surprised how much you use Gario. Limited packages are awful.

Ok thanks, I will look at unlimited packages with other providers as I should get a new customer deal that will save me money at least for the first 12 months.

I use sky, they are very good their Fibre is £10 a month + 16 Line rental.

http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/fibre-optic/

So £26, not a big saving on £33, but I would get a £100 M&S voucher.

Changing Fibre broadband providers

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