How much do you pay for your broadband?

I am on a deal with Sky, £2.50 a month for Broadband Unlimited (until August) and £9.99 a month line rental (until May).

I pay £17 for Broadband and line rental, unfortunately we have no fibre to our cabinet so we only get about 4Mbps - so it's cheap but slow.

We live in Cheltenham - pretty much every other cabinet in town seems to be hooked up for fibre apart from ours which is annoying, doubly so as we're on a fairly new build estate (c2008) so you'd think they would have thought it through and stuck down all the cables whilst they were building!

Virgin - something like £60 for 50mb (might be 100 by now), no limit, big TV package and basically free phone calls.

No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:£22.49 Plusnet unlimited fibre
Connection speed is around 70mb it's really good

1GB broadband sounds ace I was wondering when the next gen of broadband would come as it's been 70mb for the past few years.

How are you getting that deal for so cheap?

I think it's doesn't meet some international definitions of broadband due to latency or something so for my internet connection I'm paying 3 €70 a month for a 4G connection with a 250GB data gap. It's not ideal but I typically get a 10Mbps result on speed test so it's fine for Netflix and the like.

bear wrote:I think it's doesn't meet some international definitions of broadband due to latency or something so for my internet connection I'm paying 3 €70 a month for a 4G connection with a 250GB data gap. It's not ideal but I typically get a 10Mbps result on speed test so it's fine for Netflix and the like.

Good god, mate of mine bought a house in swords (YES SWORDS DUBLIN) and he cant get more than 4megs to his house. It's an old house but its surrounded by entire estates that can get 400mb, poor guy is fuming.

His house is made of swords or he paid for it by handing over loads of swords? Is that normal in Dublin?

I'm with BT and its currently £62 for 76mbps unlimited (actual speed 62mbps) and a TV service I havent used for about nine months, which includes sport. Since it's a shared house I pay £31 towards it.

Probably won't stay with them but the service has been flawless, which after my previous place (no broadband for 7 months) is enough to make it well worth the premium imo.

Floex wrote:
No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:£22.49 Plusnet unlimited fibre
Connection speed is around 70mb it's really good

1GB broadband sounds ace I was wondering when the next gen of broadband would come as it's been 70mb for the past few years.

How are you getting that deal for so cheap?

plus.net
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/plusnet ... hs-2618956

I've been with them for years its the normal price that they charge

Paying line rental is a rip off. I just need their broadband I don't care about the line rental. Thankfully Virgin has just enabled our area and might consider going with them once I get back from Dubai. BT have been shocking so far.

At the moment I have a Sky+ box with the original bundle free for a year as part of my internet package. In a couple of months I'll have to start paying for the Sky box and they have an offer on at the moment for Sky Q with the original bundle for £11 per month for 18 months.

The guy on live chat has told me that in order to go ahead with this I will need to have a Sky dish attached to my house. I don't have a dish at the moment and my Sky signal is perfect as we have fibre optics built into the house. So is it really necessary to have the dish fixed to the house in order to get Sky Q?

Mine is included in my rent... probably why it's a bit gooseberry fool unless I used a wired connection then.

Sky satellite TV services (Sky, Sky+, HD, Q) don't work without a dish. SkyQ will be available through your broadband connection in the future, but Sky haven't issued a specific date.

KK wrote:Sky satellite TV services (Sky, Sky+, HD, Q) don't work without a dish. SkyQ will be available through your broadband connection in the future, but Sky haven't issued a specific date.

Maybe I misread or am entirely wrong but I thought it was only an option if you lived somewhere that wasn't allowed a sky dish or couldn't get a signal using one? Certain listed buildings and the middle of bumblefuck nowhere Scotland etc.

Wrathy wrote:I'm with BT and its currently £62 for 76mbps unlimited (actual speed 62mbps) and a TV service I havent used for about nine months, which includes sport. Since it's a shared house I pay £31 towards it.

Probably won't stay with them but the service has been flawless, which after my previous place (no broadband for 7 months) is enough to make it well worth the premium imo.

I have exactly the same package, I pay £38

Glowy69 wrote:
Wrathy wrote:I'm with BT and its currently £62 for 76mbps unlimited (actual speed 62mbps) and a TV service I havent used for about nine months, which includes sport. Since it's a shared house I pay £31 towards it.

Probably won't stay with them but the service has been flawless, which after my previous place (no broadband for 7 months) is enough to make it well worth the premium imo.

I have exactly the same package, I pay £38

Shower of bastards.

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Grumpy David wrote:Maybe I misread or am entirely wrong but I thought it was only an option if you lived somewhere that wasn't allowed a sky dish or couldn't get a signal using one? Certain listed buildings and the middle of bumblefuck nowhere Scotland etc.

Possibly; articles weren't clear as to whether it was open to everyone or just those living in a listed building/flat. Arriving sometime in 2018 though.

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Glowy69 wrote:
Wrathy wrote:I'm with BT and its currently £62 for 76mbps unlimited (actual speed 62mbps) and a TV service I havent used for about nine months, which includes sport. Since it's a shared house I pay £31 towards it.

Probably won't stay with them but the service has been flawless, which after my previous place (no broadband for 7 months) is enough to make it well worth the premium imo.

I have exactly the same package, I pay £38

Me too.

I don't have the TV stuff though, almost everything I watch is streamed or 'acqired' and I don't watch sports.

KK wrote:Sky satellite TV services (Sky, Sky+, HD, Q) don't work without a dish. SkyQ will be available through your broadband connection in the future, but Sky haven't issued a specific date.

But... I don't have a dish now and have Sky+.

Drumstick wrote:But... I don't have a dish now and have Sky+.

You must do, otherwise LiveTV and the record and rewind functions would also cease to work. You may be able to get on-demand working without a satellite input as that comes through the broadband, but I've never tried. If you pull your Sky+ box out it'll be connected to 2 satellite cables, an HDMI cable, and possibly 1 Ethernet cable and 1 phone line.

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