Best Broadband

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What will people say is the best Broadband provider

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None of them! :tada:

John Lewis Broadband has been okay for us but only because we’ve had less BS with them than with some others.

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So far vodafone is good for me

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I’ve had less problems with Sky than I had with BT, plusnet or talk talk

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For sure TalkTalk are the worst

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I’ve had good service from Virgin.

Speeds in the 100-150mbps range - generally no issues.

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Wanna becareful as Virgin Tried to charge me to end my contract when i was already out of it and sent my account to a debt management company

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I’m on Vodafone now. Kinda miss Virgin. Their router was bad but Voda’s is extra bad.

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Whats wrong with ur router

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I’ve been with plusnet for about 12 years, can’t say I’ve had many issues, they’ve always been good although their forums and service has definitely taken a dip since BT took them over

@anon75875116 in case you weren’t aware John Lewis use plusnet for their service

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The signal is terrible on it. I can sit next to it and it’ll have a link speed of 80mb/s but only get about 30 on my device. The range is worse than the Virgin Super Hub too.

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Call them and explain i got a call back from the top broadband team and they gave me a discount untill its fixed

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I think the discount is dependent on link speed though, which means I don’t qualify. It’s because of the shoddy router, not the actual connection.

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No u will get a discount mine says the same i had to call them has thats the speed ur router is getting but not u

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Yup ^^ We joined when John Lewis were running a deal that was cheaper than Plusnet.

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I’d definitely have a look at Zen Internet. They have been named best broadband provider by sites like Which?. I can confirm that they are excellent, based on my own experience.

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I’d love to go to Zen but their FTTP pricing is just too high

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The Vodafone branded HHG2500 is junk. Very low-end hardware and poorly made firmware.

I replaced mine with a HG612 VDSL modem and a MikroTik hAP AC2 running RouterOS. The hAP is connecting to Vodafone via PPPoE.

The service has gone from patchy at best to rock solid reliability, higher speeds and perfect WiFi.

A lot of the time the ISP supplied hardware is the source of problems, not the service itself.

Overall, I’m very happy with the Vodafone service. They also provide a free static IP on request.

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Where u get the router from that your using now

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Not even any good in modem mode? (can it even do this??). Was thinking of hooking up a Nighthawk. With all the smart home stuff I’ve got now it’s getting neccessary