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What are we recommending these days? I’m looking for max 150 Fibre having come to the end of an unreliable subscription with Sky at £40ppm. I was looking at the new “Community Fibre” whose £17.50 price seems to good to be true and aren’t part of the Ofgem compensation scheme yet want up from payment for 24 months.
Reliability, speed and good customer service would be my order of priority.
Thanks.
Community Fibre here for the last 2 years. Very reliable 200 mb up and down. I’d recommend.
Depends if it’s Openreach fibre or third party. I’m with BT because it was the cheapest (marginally) at the time, but they’re all much of a muchness so just go with whatever gets you a discount or benefit elsewhere (eg EE give more data on phone plans if you have broadband with them). Likewise Vodafone.
Ultimately the speeds and reliability will be the same whoever you use. If it’s a third party fibre provider then you’re stuck with them or one of their partner networks anyway.
City Fibre recently dug up our village so I’ve moved from Virgin Broadband (coax, 350MB service, £60+ per month) to Toob (ftth, 900MB up and down, £29 per month). Switched about 3 months ago and no issues yet.
Aussie Broadband
1000/50
$109 per month
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I'm happy with Grain Fibre.
Paying £19.99 for 150mb, getting 175mb (I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference) Streams Netflix, Prime etc with ease
I think they're fairly new, so not as widespread as mainstream operators
Sky here, no complaints really.
Whoever you go with it's always worth checking for gift cards and cash back:
https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/
https://www.quidco.com/compare/broadband/
How 2000s. The fibre in our street has about as many users as the copper wire telephone lines that still dangle between poles and houses. 5g phones and 300giga a months for 19e99 has made fibre redundant for most people round here.
Anyone with brsk? Just had notice they are installing in our area soon, if they do as it involves putting poles up as the gas company appears to have wrecked all the underground conduits
Anyone with brsk? Just had notice they are installing in our area soon, if they do as it involves putting poles up as the gas company appears to have wrecked all the underground conduits
My mate is, he's not moaned about them, and they seem to get decent reviews in general.
There's an 11 page discussion here if you fancy some bed time reading, going back to when they first appeared. https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/brsk.18968896/
I would have gone with them but they were the same price as plusnet, who I already had FFTC with, so I figured less to go wrong at switchover!
I had zero downtime, unles you count the 5 mins to plug the router in and reboot.
My Fibre comes from an existing telegraph pole, to the side of the house and then down the side of the house, much like an old telephone wire might be installed.
When you see one of these junction boxes/hubs whatever the technical term is, appear opn your nearest pole, you'll know it will be ready soon.
Just moved from Sky Fibre 150 to Virgin as they were offering some cracking deals due to only recently being available in Skipton. Ended up with TV, Sports and 250 fibre (not coax) for £59 pm where as Sky wanted almost £100 for similar, even after talking to the UK based retentions.
Sky Fibre was decent enough but Virgin is another level speed wise.
Has anyone come across YouFibre? They seem to be offering pretty competitive prices in my area but I've never heard of them. They don't use the existing cables, but put their own in ( I assume connecting to the BT box down the road ) which seems a tad odd and costly.
Thanks for the feedback. I tried Zen but that’s £36 vs £40 for Sky and they’ll only give half the speed. Will investigate Community Fibre a bit more, Martin Lewis seems to like them.
Hyperoptic for the last couple of years, they instal their own fibre and download speed and upload sped have been better than advertised!
150meg broadband, was £20 for first two years, now £25. Miles better than previous BT and Talk Talk offerings, that barely registered half the advertised speeds.
Anyone with brsk?
Yep.
Absolutely faultless, superb service (both sales and tech), and it's FTTP so I can tell BT to stick their line rental up their arse. Can't recommend them highly enough.
I'm not allowed to post referral codes so whatever you do don't PM me asking for one or we might both save £75.
I have the 900MB package from Community Fibre - it's been pretty rock solid for the last 9 months or so.
They use their own cabling (fibreing? ), not open reach stuff so it's truly their own network.
I couldn't wait to get off virgin and there was no FTTP from BT etc in our street.
I can do you a code too if you are in the zone they support.
. I tried Zen but that’s £36 vs £40 for Sky
Until march when sky put their prices up then next march when they do it again on your 24mth context.
Zen don't do mid-contact price rises.
Has anybody used BeFibre?
We are in their catchment area and the performance/prices look good.
We use BeFibre. FullFibre (wholesale) put in new cables and we then used FibreHeroes to decide which provider we'd use. Went with BeFibre because they had the best offer. But they were good to deal with, excellent installers (who were a bit grumpy as they reckoned there were all being replaced by contractors). Signed up for 900/900 and we get that.
They also supply a decent Linksys router (which we don't use as we have a mesh). Performance is consistently good, only had one outage that affected everyone in the area. Their (UK) Helpdesk couldn't handle volume of calls but the issue was resolved within a couple of hours.
They now have a service portal. We signed up for 24 months which got us 3 months at half price I think and £30 a month.
Community have offered me the 1GB (900/900) for £26 and 2 months free. Seems that’s the direction I’m taking.
Zen, we've been with them for 4 years now. Only had 2 occasions where I've need to speak to somebody, and each time it's been a quick and painless experience. No problems with overall service.
We're lucky in that we are on a guaranteed "no price increase" package, could go to a faster package, but we don't need that, so sticking with what we have.
Which magazine have recommended them as the best B/Band provider every year they've been operating.