40Mb Fibre Optic B/Band
for £17.99 a month (the line tests indicate a possible 50Mb speed)
but...it's with my existing ISP Supanet. Not the last word in customer services, my contract keeps extending mysteriously. Plus it would tie me into a new 2 year contract.
Good value, or wait until Sep 2013 when the current agreement expires?
My line is capable up to 50Mb apparently, but the package is a 40Mb limit / 50Gb bandwidth per month.
I looked at plusnet, but cant move without incurring charges before Sep-13
Do you really need internet that fast?
Need? No.
Need? No.
Want? 
Chance would be a fine thing. They advertise these technologies like just about anyone can have them. Oh if only that were the case. Half the country still has no option of cable, including us, yet just to rub salt into the wounds, twice or three times a year we get Virgin Media flyers through our letter boxes offering the latest deals. As for fibre-optic BB, I think we'll get it shorty after Mars does. And I don't even live in some remote, sparsely-populated area.
I want to go with Plusnet too, but I'm still tied to my phone contract with BT until April next year. I can cancel my BT contract legally when they send me notice of their price rises, as long as I do it within 10 days of receiving notice, and I know it's happening in January next year, but I've yet to receive notice from them.
I want to sign up with Plusnet before they too put their prices up (October 28th), so I can pay the line rental up front and save some money, so I want the notice form BT asap.
I received a letter from BT yesterday offering me Infinity for 3 months free, then £26 a month plus line rental, but it would still work out a fair bit more expensive than Plusnet, so I'm totally undecided what to do. 
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I want to go with Plusnet too, but I'm still tied to my phone contract with BT until April next year. I can cancel my BT contract legally when they send me notice of their price rises, as long as I do it within 10 days of receiving notice, and I know it's happening in January next year, but I've yet to receive notice from them.
I want to sign up with Plusnet before they too put their prices up (October 28th), so I can pay the line rental up front and save some money, so I want the notice form BT asap.
I received a letter from BT yesterday offering me Infinity free for 3 months, then £26 a month plus line rental, but it would still work out a fair bit more expensive than Plusnet, so I'm totally undecided what to do. " />
How did that happen???
I'm going to stick with my current Virgin Media (cable) setup. It was 10meg until a couple of weeks ago, but - finally - it's been doubled and we really don't need any more than 20meg.
Even with 10meg we never had any problems despite being fairly heavy iPlayer users sometimes. ('Buffering' during programmes is a distant memory now thank goodness.)
Reliability of service has always been the highest priority (even more than cost) because I mostly work from home. This is why I am sticking with VM. It's been over 5 years now and in that time I have only experienced one outage with them that was serious enough to make me have to travel to the office.
Just checked my post-code and I see we're getting F/O B/B 'by 31 December 2012', though it doesn't say what speed. It's a step in the right direction at least. Modern webpages are so complex, what with animated ads and other interactive features, that it often feels like I'm back on dial-up.
I want to go with Plusnet too, but I'm still tied to my phone contract with BT until April next year. I can cancel my BT contract legally when they send me notice of their price rises, as long as I do it within 10 days of receiving notice, and I know it's happening in January next year, but I've yet to receive notice from them.
I want to sign up with Plusnet before they too put their prices up (October 28th), so I can pay the line rental up front and save some money, so I want the notice form BT asap.
I received a letter from BT yesterday offering me Infinity free for 3 months, then £26 a month plus line rental, but it would still work out a fair bit more expensive than Plusnet, so I'm totally undecided what to do. " />
You do realise that Plusnet is a subsidiary of BT plc?
How do you find out? I want to move away from BT but I can't find anything on my account webpage that indicates any length of contract. I'm not going to do anything silly like ring them up and ask clearly...
Err, I think we had notification of this a couple of months ago, hang on, ah there it is, received the email notifying price rises in January 2013 on the 6th of September.
Incidentally I hate you all, my exchange is finally being upgraded to provide "up to 20Mb/s" on Monday but, because I'm so far from the exchange I'm not likely to see any increase in line speed! 
I want to go with Plusnet too, but I'm still tied to my phone contract with BT until April next year. I can cancel my BT contract legally when they send me notice of their price rises, as long as I do it within 10 days of receiving notice, and I know it's happening in January next year, but I've yet to receive notice from them.
I want to sign up with Plusnet before they too put their prices up (October 28th), so I can pay the line rental up front and save some money, so I want the notice form BT asap.
I received a letter from BT yesterday offering me Infinity free for 3 months, then £26 a month plus line rental, but it would still work out a fair bit more expensive than Plusnet, so I'm totally undecided what to do. " />
You do realise that Plusnet is a subsidiary of BT plc?
I don't think BBB has a problem with BT's service per se, he just wants to save some money.
Yeah, but you do get to live in the sort of place that I have to pay hundreds of pounds a week to rent when on holiday.
I've just moved to Plusnet - up to 80 Mbps for £19.99 per month (extra for line rental though). You need to check you can get that through their website though. A speed test I just ran showed I'm getting 73 Mbps.
As for customer service - I've only just move to them, but so far all good. On installation date, the engineer arrived at 8:30am and I was up and running on my new broadband service before 10am.