[Bradford] Broadband suppliers

[Devo Too]

Hi Steve,

They haven't. Off this exchange 3Mbps is very fast. 3. Not 30. 300??? 
Daydreams. Perhaps "ethical" should have been added into the wants 
description, too. No fans of Branson here.

A further objection is them saying only they can provide X, Y and Z 
because it controls the wire " . . and there's nothing you can do about 
it". That's monopoly behaviour, as distasteful as it is unethical in my 
view. A&A have no such restrictions even though they can supply 
everything and do it all very well.

Checking the line-only deals it looks as though the "paired copper wire" 
is no worse than the rest. Even the £24 comes back over time as the 
tenner is inclusive of VAT. I'll just have to tell the relatives to use 
the VoIP number in case of emergency.

PlusNet and PO Telecom were dismissed in my OP.

Cheers,

Mike

On 22/11/2019 20:56, Steve Kerr via Bradford wrote:
> Hi Mike
> 
> I get on well with Virgin Media and would recommend them... if they have 
> cabled your street. It's not cheap though and they like to bundle 
> everything, but their broadband service is reliable - only one (noticed) 
> outage in a year - and is always running at just above the specified 
> speed. Prior to switching to VM I was with PlusNet for many years and 
> had no problem with them. Obviously PlusNet's FTTC @45Mbps couldn't 
> compete with VM's DOCSIS @350Mbps. So until FTTH services appear around 
> here I'll probably stick with VM. Prior to PluNet I used Freeola and 
> Force 9, but that's going back many years to dial-up, and I doubt these 
> even exist any more.
> 
> I do have a 'backup' Internet service, using ADSL with Post Office. It 
> came 'free' with their phone service. I only power it up once a month to 
> make sure it still works, just in case I ever really need it for work. 
> So I can't comment on the reliability, other than it works every time I 
> try it!
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 12:34, Devo Too via Bradford 
> <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Folks,
> 
>     Does anybody out there have a good recommendation for a broadband
>     supplier? Nothing fancy needed, just a reasonably reliable connection.
> 
>     I recently left PlusNet, whose service has been sliding downwards for
>     years in tandem with their price rises, and took out a contract with
>     Post Office Telecoms. But they are trying to act as a nanny state and
>     now their connectivity appears to have crumbled and fallen apart.
> 
>     Having only been with them for a short while and not yet had a
>     satisfactory service by any stretch of the imagination, I think I can
>     get around the 1 year contract term on the grounds of failure to
>     provide
>     a service.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Mike
> 
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