To think the cost of WiFi is a TOTAL piss take?!

[BornInGlasgow]

£37 per month for broadband only? Or £29 but then up to £49 in year two?! FUCK OFF!!!!! Looks like I'll have to dust down the old Danielle Steel's to keep me entertained because fuck that shit.

How much does everyone else pay?! I'm just buying my first home after 3 years of nightmare house sharing and I'm sickened by how much it's gone up in the 3 years since I rented privately.

VM WiFi is good, we have it. I want to cut down though, we don’t need the phone line or tv package anymore - we’re paying £62 a month! I’m a little bit scared of changing provider as I want a completely flawless WiFi service.

You don’t need the 100mps if it’s just you. We have that for five of us.

Plusnet customer service is really good and if you can find a better offer at the end of your contact then they'll always give you a decent offer to stay. (I'm switching and may end up regretting it but only because they don't offer the service I'm switching to, which is brand new in my area.) They're usually competitive prices too and anything beats the uselessness of talktalk (took being passed through three people to tell me they'd printed a case sensitive password in the wrong case).

£45 for sky Q

@DianaPrincessOfThemyscira we are in the same boat as you I think

The problem is if you live in one of the areas that can get it and have the Virgin super fast broadband you get used to it and everything else seems awfully slow, so changing to another provider would feel like a drop in service. Depends how much that bothers you.

I have just changed to the post office broadband, 15-99 wi fi and line rental, plus £3 anytime calls for the first 6 months,thereafter 36 a month, so "21-99 a month
Anyone using PO already?
Was with EE but they have put costs up £3 a month mid contract,so leaving with no exit fee

NOT £36 a month, £6 a month

BT Superfast Fibre 1 (up to 50Mb) - Can't get faster in our postcode.
Plus line rental paid in advance - works out monthly to £28. We add on anytime calls for £7 so £35 monthly (including the line rental).

BT billing is convoluted. I get a "discount" for 18 mths which basically means that they can still increase the basic package price within that period - like a tracker mortgage based on BoE rates!

Have to haggle everytime the contract ends which is a hassle. Stay with BT due to BT-Wifi coverage (don't need much mobile data so cheap payg mobiles for everyone) & cba with swapping suppliers.

I have Plusnet. It started at £24 per month but then went up to £35. I should’ve rang and threatened to leave.

I’m moving in a couple of months and about to start weighing up my options. The flat I’m moving to has VM already installed so I might try them, but otoh I get mine and ds’s Mobile contract through Plusnet so I get them cheeper and I don’t want to lose them. Will have to do a bit of ringing around I think.

I thought that you can't have fibre BB without paying line rental. Full fibre isn't yet widely available and the main provider, BT requires you to take a landline as part of a full fibre package.

Only Virgin has built their own fibre infrastructure - all other providers like Sky, Talk Talk, Plusnet, etc uses the BT Openreach fibre network.

I'm only referring to fibre BB, not ADSL BB.

sansou if you want to change suppliers,it only needs you to choose a different one,your new supplier does the rest
I change every time my contract runs out as then they want to put the prices up
I also switch energy suppliers ever year ,for a cheaper deal

The problem is if you live in one of the areas that can get it and have the Virgin super fast broadband you get used to it and everything else seems awfully slow, so changing to another provider would feel like a drop in service

My internet connection at work is three times faster than the fastest VM offering. My home broadband is barely 50 Mbps and I don't notice a difference unless I am uploading a large file.

If its only you op and you aren't a heavy user then a cheaper non fibre broadband suits. I change provider every year to keep the price down, anything between 15-£20pm. Never had issues and there is no fibre where I live.

I pay £25 for landline and broadband on an old EE deal
It’s not super speedy but that’s ok

Agreed, it’s shocking. I was paying virgin £40 a month purely for broadband but I made the mistake of switching to Talk Talk and you truly get what you pay for. I’ve had to up it to fibre which is now £25 a month and it’s still just as shit as before... I’m going to have to switch back to virgin, as expensive as it is.

If you don't need a landline and you have decent mobile signal, look into doing it through a mobile provider with a dongle. And if you don't need it for a computer, just directly through your phone contract for unlimited data would be cheaper.

£17 with TalkTalk

I don't understand where you find such pricey broadband.

are you going for fibre optic etc? I must admit I don't know what the speed is here, but it's fine. I'm with Talk Talk.

As a PP suggested, don't bother with broadband, just use your phone's data, tethering if necessary.

eg GiffGaff will give you 20Gbs per month for £20 or unlimited, which may slow down at times after 20Gbs, for £25.

As a PP suggested, don't bother with broadband, just use your phone's data, tethering if necessary

That might work for a couple of extra devices but it won't work particularly well for a family, or at all if any device needs a wired ethernet connection.

3 data is cheapest. 100gbs and unlimited gbs go on offer regularly for under £22 per month.

It works for a family if you buy a data router.

Yes, obviously it depends what your needs are. But it's perfectly adequate if you've only got one or two devices to get online.

Think it depends on the area. VM are shocking here. Loads of my friends have ranted about them. I've not used them myself, I had no issues with sky or BT. I don't pay that much and we are super fibre.

I pay less than £18 a month with Sky. Unlimited and includes line rental.
3 is also really good. I'm paying £14 a month which includes 30gb data and no data used for Netflix and some other stuff.