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We've been with Virgin for 12 years and the broadband is generally fast and reliable, we also had Virgin TV but got rid of that a few years back. It bothers me that they put the bill up every 6 months, if it always corresponded with an increase in speed I wouldn't mind so much or would downgrade to a lower.
Current package is is SuperFibre 50 with phone line (don't need it but have to have it), cost now is £42.50 per month.
I suspect changing might be cutting of my nose to spite my face (I work from home so a good, fastish connection is essential) but interested to hear about others experiences we alternatives.
No cable Internet?
I'm on Virgin Fibre 200 it's about £38 but no phone line rental needed with Virgin. http://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broadband/broadband-only.html
Gets my goat that all the providers make you have a phone line with their packages. Hardly anyone needs a home phone line these days!
Probably too much with PlusNet, £35 quid-ish for 30mb-ish I think, plus we often get assigned a US IP address which is a PITA.
It's on my 'must get round to changing' list
BT Infinity 2 for ~£16pcm (after they increased from the original "personal offer" of £14pcm for 24 months from summer 2016), plus BT landline paid in a lump sum of ~£208 for 12 months (means one month free compared to paying monthly).
We barely use the landline despite the free up to 60 min free calls at the weekend, but then we barely use our mobiles for calls either.
There was a deal recently by Plusnet which was quite attractive is you got rid of the free weekend calls. Well worth checking Topcashback/Quidco for nice deals for switching, we got ~£120 when we switched to BT a few years back.
So ~£33pcm all-in.
Paying £22 per month with Plusnet for 38Mb, it includes a phone line which we don't really use.
£35/month for 50 Mb/s ish with Virgin. No download limits.
I pay £25 a month for phone line and sky fibre broadband which works very well. If virgin media were available I'd probably go with them but not yet in our area.
If I had the choice I'd go with hyperoptic, 1gb download/upload speed!
About £65ish a month for cable free 4g broadband.
40ish a month, Virgin, it works, I'm happy.
£25 with EE, 8Mb, Line rental included and anytime calls
about £33 for 70meg virgin, no phone line or tv.
200mb Virgin Cable, no download limits or no phone line or TV, think we pay £34 ish.
£45 for 80/20 FTTC With Arnold & Andrews includes line rental but no phone service
150GB DL Cap
Pay a bit extra for this but would much rather give my money to these guys than anyone else I've found.
£38 per month Sky Fibre unlimited + weekend/evening calls + Sky Freesat with record facility. 12 month contract
Equivalent to £10.01 per month, with Plusnet, for basic broadband and phone line.
£194 upfront for £18 months, with a £2.01 monthly charge - less £50 cashback.
No calls, no TV, not brilliant speeds, but not expensive either.
Plusnet atm, about 37 for fibre and eve/we calls.
Vodafone doing fibre unlimited with Sonos play 1 for 25 or 30 a month all in, dependant on speed, think I'm gonna go with them.
£18/month inc line rental and 'free' broadband with Sky. 12 month offer which I've got them to renew three years on the trot. It's slow as an old dog though, so looking around for cheapest fibre or cable.
£12 a month for standard broadband and line rental with Sky
plusnet £11.99 a month for 18m unltd fiber aprox 38mb
plus annual phoneline £186 12m.
Zen £25 a month for ~24 Mbps ADSL line.
Not the cheapest option but I've been with Zen for a decade and they are rock solid reliability and haven't given in to throttling or blocking torrent/streaming like some ISPs have.
Virgin 200 fibre, with a phone and basic Tivo - about £52 a month.
We were paying exorbitant fees (nearly £150 😯 )for all the TV but we canned as we just weren't watching it...
£30 a month for 1Gbps symmetrical (\smug\). With B4RN (community bb in the North)
We've been with Virgin for 12 years and the broadband is generally fast and reliable, we also had Virgin TV but got rid of that a few years back. It bothers me that they put the bill up every 6 months, if it always corresponded with an increase in speed I wouldn't mind so much or would downgrade to a lower
You can just phone up and say you're moving to Plusnet etc and they'll match the price for a year. We did that last year.....
£9.50 a month sky broadband and line
Just cancelled all services w virgin as no longer watching TV but do use 200mb internet and phone. It WAS £56 pcm.
They called back and got same 200mb cable and phone but no tv for £28 per month.
Always been happy with virgin internet.
Nothing*
*work for a telecoms company
They called back and got same 200mb cable and phone but no tv for £28 per month.
Pretty good VFM!
Always been happy with virgin internet.
I don't understand why people are happy with companies that make them threaten to leave before giving them a better price!
FYI, Im with Virgin and it pisses me off everytime I've got to go through that crap, just give me a good deal in the first place.
Sky fibre and landline £38 per month. Blistering 2mb.
~£25 (including loyalty discount) a month with Virgin 100+mbit down ~5mbit up.
Dunno why but they doubled the speed for free when i moved house last week.
I want to change, currently with Virgin and its ok but nothing special. Problem is that we cant use anyone who uses a BT copper line as we are too far away from the exchange which means we only get dial in speeds, it was very painful.
Does anyone know if Vodaphone or any other provider that doesnt use the BT copper network to get it to our house
£52 a month with Virgin.
100Mbps fibre, the basic HD package and a phone line that doesn't work for some reason and I've never bothered to look at.
It's due to go up in Nov, but that can whistle for it, the Virgin box is appalling, laggy, crap interface I still find frustrating 8 months in and I'm annoyed that want extra for free to view HD channels like E4... I've just got to fix the aerial...
BT unlimited fibre here, free calls etc. £50 a month
and a bit more per month on Sky 🙁
No idea in honesty. It just comes out with BT
Think its about £16-17 a month for about 30mbps although it does dip at peak times to about the 'teens. With vodafone
Thanks all, think I'll stick with Virgin but get phone removed, last time I checked it was more expensive not to have phone.
Just switched to sky, 12 month deal about 23 per month for broadband, line rental and inclusive evening and weekend calls. Then 75 quid prepaid mastercard on activation and 90 quid from topcashback. CBA to work out net monthly cost but it ain't much.
£32.50 a month for Virgin broadband 100meg (I think or maybe next one down, I cant keep up) through fibre optic cable. No TV or phoneline required.
This msut top the most ripped off category on this thread..... so £30 per months with plusnet for 0.5mbps per second. Then again this is rural scotland....
200mb broadband, all the TV channels, TiVo, and a phone line. £32 a month with virgin.
Had to start the leaving process to get that and it runs out in December so will have to go through it all again then I suspect.
Feeling quite smug as just signed up to BT Infinity for £32/month with £150 pre-paid credit card reward thingy, £25 M&S voucher and £95 on Top Cash Back 8)
I pay EE broadband upfront for 12 months line rental at £170 (approx) and i get charged a £1 (or so) per month, that's for unlimited broadband and free evening/weekend calls but as i don't have a landline phone that freebie is pretty useless.
I've just ran Broadband Speed Checker and it says i have a download speed of 17.38 Mb/s and upload of 1.3 Mb/s, that sounds like a crock of shite to me as tv shows/movies regularly buffer if i try to watch anything and if i try and upload a few pics to flickr (for example) my alexa connection for tune-in radio stops and i can't load any new pages/search requests till flickr has done it's thing, we do recently have fibre in this area but it costs £40 a month + line rental so that's just taking the utter piss.
And a letter just popped through the door today from Virgin saying my bill is going up by £1.99 in November. That's 2.5x the rate of inflation.
just signed with virgin £32. per. month tv phone bb. 100 meg d/l
Nothing*
*work for a telecoms company
Does HMRC know about that? BIK?
£22 for 75Mb virgin media. another case of actually cancelling (and meaning it) every year when they jack it up, only for them to ring back and give us another deal.
I currently pay £90 a year for 25Mbps from our Austwick Community Broadband which is run by volunteers and is fantastic. We are just winding it up though at Christmas (after 15 years) as we have just completed the community digging of fibre around the valley so in 4 weeks we will be live on B4RN which is £22 a month (I think) for 1000Mbps. But there again you tax payers have helped fund that!!! Community schemes are definitely the way to go. //#smug/.
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Yep, just had a letter from Virgin saying ours is going up £3.99 a month. I wonder if the amount it goes up is proportional to your bill, ours should be £75 a month for what we get.
I got an email about the changes. £3.99 increase. Assume I'll get a letter as well.
On the mix bundle, 100mb/v6 box/basic HD channels, but price rise won't kick in till initial year promo offer is up apparently. Currently paying £35 a month. Really only wanted broadband, but they were asking £33 for that on is own. All BT options not really viable as no BT line. Probably give it the year then cancel, as no real decent options out there, so will just haggle with Virgin.
We live over 2.5km from the exchange. Speed was 2mb when we arrived nearly 10 years ago, and is now about 5 on a good day as many of the overhead cables have been replaced. So we can watch streaming TV etc (and not have two teenage kids complain endlessly about 'media poverty') we run two lines and an aggregation service.
That's about £75 a month and it has a 250GB cap which we always breach and that's another tenner. So I read some of the responses in this thread and cry a bit 😉
We are getting fibre tho. Probably a year away. The prospect of 40 meg synchronous for £40 is something I'm really looking forward too! We also looked at community options but as it's a few houses then a gap then a few more, it never really was a flier.
I also got the email from Virgin telling me it's going up by £3.99, I took the opportunity to cancel although I'm now wondering what to do for decent internet as Virgin is very fast, not even the Gif thread bothers it 😉
Looking around BT seems the best VFM but I have no idea where of if I have a line 🙄
That's the problem. Virgin doesn't really have a viable alternative due to BT being...well...BT.
Your best bet is to play the 'I am cancelling due to the price rises, but I'll stay if you can do a better deal...wink wink' game.
As a new customer, I am in the odd position of getting the price rise, but it not hitting till my first year ends next May or so. So can just cancel/haggle when my year is up.
£37/month for EE's fastest fibre, including line rental and an extra 5GB of data for the phone.
Virgin just putting the price up yet again - by £3.99 a month. Hadn't paid much attention to how much we're paying a month but just checked and it's ridiculous.
All we have is the XL TV package, with broadband and a phone line. Don't even have a phone plugged into the phone line - it was just cheaper to have it as part of the package when we originally got it. Looks like we'll be paying £74 a month when the price increase kicks in. Need to work out how to get that down - only issue is broadband speed for working from home - bt etc always list our road as not having fibre in it.
£28 a month for line rental and 52meg BT infinity on a 12 month contract.
Less:
Cashback card £125
Top cashback £80
Credits for failure to supply the service for the first month and 4 missed engineers appointments in a row £69
And small claims court payout on the way for my lost wages which is what you get for missing 4 appointments and offering £10 compensation to the customer and telling them they should be glad you're so generous.
So by the time we're done Bt will have paid me around £200 to have their broadband for a year 🙂
Timely.
I've just (in the last 10 mins) gone with EE for 18 months at £19 p/m for unlimited 38mb fibre broadband and weekend calls. This includes the net of line rental/up front payments/cash back etc.
That seems to be a pretty good deal. Shame I couldn't unpick the phone call bit as we (like the rest of the planet?) use our bat phones so don't need it.
Just got off the phone from the Virgin retention team, Uprgraded to 100mb and new Superhub for £33.
I nearly cut off my nose to spite my face as I hate having to play the game and that companies reward new customers more than loyal existing ones.
Uprgraded to 100mb and new Superhub for £33.
Apparently we are being upgraded to 100Mb/s (from 50Mb/s) as part of the £1.99 price rise, which will bring us up to £35.47 / month.
Just changed provider thanks to MSE's new gizmo, broadband and weekend calls with JL will mean a saving of £14.50 per month compared with Sky. £22.50 per month sounds good.
A little update from me. I got a call from Virgin today & I have settled on 50Mbps BB, XL TV so I can keep BT sport, 2 boxes & phone line for £52.50, quite happy with that but sad I had to go through the termination process to get there.
Cheers.
Speedy
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