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couplands



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I've just cancelled my Sky TV, Broadband & phone and am swapping to BT Infinity 2.

The Sky TV I just wasnt watching, and even at the basic package + HD was costing 31/month. The broadband was Sky Connect as we couldnt get their own service in our area, and was poor in terms of speed in the evening due to traffic shaping and cost 17/month. Phone was good though, they discount to free the national calls, and I paid 5/month for international as my daughter lives in Switzerland.

BT have just rolled out Ininity to our exchange, so offers (estimiated) 65mb down/20mb up speed, so we'll see.

I may regret it, but I think it's worth a change.

cheers

simon
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GREENI



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I'm on BT too, no problems, as Mrs G works from home and downloads drawings and stuff I don't understand, we go over the limit now and again, but the company pays for it Laughing
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the virgins are coming tomorrow to do the install of telephone, TV and broadband ... photos to follow Thumbs Up
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bpman wrote:
the virgins are coming tomorrow to do the install of telephone, TV and broadband ... photos to follow Thumbs Up


Same rules apply as Christmas mate!

If you don't go to sleep santa won't come!

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absolutely loving virgin ... tv - good, phone - good, broadband - i've just seen 42mbps, it's not always that fast but it's never been as slow as bt - yes, i'd recommend it
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custom90



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bpman wrote:
i've just seen 42mbps, it's not always that fast but it's never been as slow as bt

Your lucky I'm currently on 6mbps Embarassed Diesel$ Live$ Matter. ⛽️🛢️👨‍🔧🧰⚙️ RED, WHITE & BOOST! 🇬🇧
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couplands



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Got my BT Infinity installed and getting 70mb/s download and 15mb/s upload, so very pleased.

And no slowdown in the evenings like I did with Sky. Sky was 4mb/s down and 300kb/s up, so a big difference.

Also get BT wifi when I'm out and about, so very useful.

Only problem is that my Freesat Humax box is nowhere as nice to use as the Sky box. Might reconsider the TV side of things....:-/
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bpman



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even at busy times, I'm getting a good speed

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Think we will go Virgin also Thumbs Up
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Guess what - just outside Munich, a major German city, we can only get 3Mbps max DSL due to the existing wiring Big Cry
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bpman



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UPDATE: After good speeds for about 6 weeks, the performance of the virgin fibre optic broadband dropped to way below dial-up modem speeds ... as you can imagine the virgin hell desk was very very apologetic but were frankly hopeless. Some evenings, no broadband as all.

So back to sky TV and copper broadband (until Sky can deliver cable)
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ken



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BT Business Fibre Mr. Green

none of this drop out poo when the kids go on line Thumbs Up
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Landlord



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Just got rid of BT thankfully....

Signed up with Sky for broadband and Phone at the new house, should be connected on the 21/12. Not bothered about the TV, freessat and Apple TV box is fine for us.

As we are in the sticks we were limited to who we could use ! 2007 TD5 90 Hard Top
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bpman



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MrsBP got us a blinding deal on a Sky HD 2TB box .. nice & shiney
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