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.

Just got billed £69 for plusnet we hsd a car accident and DH kept phoning the insurers on the landline, plus the kids called me at work on my mobile in the hols. Grrrr

It works for a family if you buy a data router

I have one on Three. At peak periods the speed slows quite drastically.

£40 quid (say) for entertainment, communication, and everything else is very cheap. It costs about a £1 to send a letter. How much do you think it should cost. A few years ago you paid AOL by the megabyte, and it was still good. I had rubbish broadband until a year ago - I used to spend £40 a month on BluRays - I hardly ever go to CEX now, as I am spoilt for choice. I can only say I am now very pleased with my BT vision box, and BT broadband.

£23.99 a month, which is BT’s Infinity 2 package (line rental, fibre broadband). My contract was up and they price matched Plusnet’s cheapest deal at the time.

I pay £26.95 for Plusnet fibre unlimited, customer service & tech helpline are excellent.

I'm paying £32 with virgin media including basic TV package and very happy with it.

£15 a month with post office

30quid unlimited fibre direct to property in trial area. Was 45 but haggled when I took package. Lied and said I had a better deal. When line rental went up there was a clause to leave so haggled it down again. When your out of contract your in a good position to negotiate. Time consuming but pays to shop around and tell providers what your prepared to pay

25.99 for the hightest vm fibre optic, inc phone line with unlimited wknds

Be thankful you don’t live in America, their internet is crap and much more expensive than ours.

I thought this too until I read this thread. I'm astonished how much more expensive it's become in the UK.

I'm in rural New England, I pay $65 a month and I just did a speedtest and am currently getting 115mbps.

Not all of the VM network is FO cable so I think they don't offer the fastest speeds everywhere hence the disparity in experience. We don't have the fastest (350Mb) but do have their 213Mb connection so it's noticeable if you use non FO connections which have a max speed of up to 76Mb. This doesn't bother everybody as it depends what you are doing but I work from home and I do notice the difference.

Since posting that i was changing to the Post office, EE have offered me a new deal at £19 a month, which includes anytime calls. plus 1500 minutes to any Mobile, plus £17 credit, which i complained i was overcharged for ringing my mobile when i couldnt find it, and usually was never even connected, as far as i knew as usually found my phone on 2 rings, but charged for 20 minuted call, when even if had gone to voicemail wouldnt have been 20 minutes
So staying with them now

JaceLancs you can change from EE now for no charge as they are putting prices up, i was changing to PO but EE rang me about it and offered a better deal, see my post, and also a new updated router
Just tell them you are leaving and they will offer you a better lower price, including anytime free calls

£18 per month, fibre, unlimited- sky (am a long term customer though). Think it’s a brilliant price as there are me and two teens and we are using it constantly! We have all iPhones, sky box, second sky box, PC, Xbox, PlayStation, 3 laptops, 2 kindles, 2 iPads- something is always on! We’d be so stuck without it!

£10 sky fibre but that's only if you have line rental and tv with them

I have no choice - only high speed provider is VM to my house. The alternative is

£31 a month for EE fibre with line rental. Plus an extra 10gb added to my mobile data

Under £20/month here, but that's ordinary slow copper-wire broadband. I'd happily pay £35/month for super-fast if I could get it but Openreach won't install fibre here, even though I can see the exchange from my front door.

My internet connection at work is three times faster than the fastest VM offering.

Not at your PC it isn’t, your network adapter won’t support such speeds.

It's worse when you don't have a choice of internet providers so you are stuck paying £60 a month because they have you over a barrel.
My mum pays £19.99 for everything and still has better internet speeds than me!