Just had a look around and i’m currently paying £36 for what Sky can offer is much less at £27
There is also a known issue with BT and WhatsApp which is also motivating me to move.
Still have about one year left in my current contract. Would it work out cheaper to pay the cancellation fees ( i’ll phone up tomorrow and see what they are )
Or just stick with it and cancel towards the end ? I’m bad with maths hence the question.
Thanks
Thanks dude.
Yeah i have evidence on their forums that lots of people are having whatsapp issues. I was going mad trying to figure it out, and eventually realised it was a problem with my ISP and not my phone as on 4G and my families broadband its fine.
There is a potential fix, so i’ll try that out over the next few days and hopefully its ok.
Although regardless Sky can offer it for much cheaper so feel im missing out. I should have looked around before renewing my contract earlier this year. Lesson learnt
You need the cancellation charges first before you can compare. You’ll save £108/year by moving but, as @N26throwaway suggested, it’s likely to cost a lot more than that to cancel. It’ll be £36 x 12 - some sort of discount that they’ll take off.
Well the first problem was I couldn’t receive emails consistently to my phone, some would go through and others you’d have to open the app and refresh. ( It never did this on 4G or at my families house ) So that points to it being a problem with my WiFi.
Spoke to someone on chat who accessed my router and changed the channels as it was apparently congested. ( When i first installed the router i changed it to some obscure one which was obviously congested ) and since then my emails have been instant with no problem.
Today, WhatsApp at my home has been playing up, after the phone being on standby for a while it wouldn’t give any notifications unless I opened the app and i missed an important message, hence why i got annoyed with it.
So I went onto BT forum and searched whatsapp. Lots of people recently have had problems with it ( I can post a link if you like )
The solution apparently is to enable parental controls and whitelist whatsapp.com
The problem that was with the phone is " Doze " mode, which i’ve disabled a couple of days back with a script and now i get email notifications 100% of the time even in standby. But what im saying is, this script only works if the phone actually receives a notification. And with WhatsApp it doesn’t. Odd thing is it only does it sometimes.
If you’re in a long contract it’s often expensive to break.
WhatsApp situation seems bizarre. Just that app? Has whitelisting it helped?
Yeah. Reddit, Twitter, Emails, Monzo etc are all spot on.
I’ve only just whitelisted it so i’ll keep an eye on it
Yeah weird one. toggling wi-fi off then back on seems to make the notifications come through. cant quite figure it out.
Just installed PNF ( push notification fixer to see if it helps )
I thought the congested network theory made sense
If toggling wifi on and off that would make me think it’s a phone setting.
Is there some sort of standby/energy saving/group/delayed notifications settings on Android?
And you didn’t have these issues with your iPhone which makes me think it’s not BT, but a phone setting.
Yep no problems with the iPhone.
Why is it it only happens on my wifi and not 4g or my families is what baffles me.
Instant notifications all day unless at home on my wifi.
Changing the signal channel helped for a day or so now back to messing around
When you’re at your families are you using your phone more? Maybe a longer time with your phone untouched is what is causing it?
Thats what the script fixes ( no notifications coming through quickly in standby )
Even with the phone unlocked whilst im at home, sometimes nothing comes through. Sometimes it works fine for a few hours.
Yes, there is an option for this in the developer options. Howver i think on android all that does is make it quicker to switch between 4G and WiFi when your out of range. I could give it another go
Someone said try disabling IPV6. I’ll see how it goes
Yeah its in the router settings
I’m quite enjoying my £5 a month broadband and landline, told them twice they’re not billing me enough 
still not being sorted but I don’t mind as it’s nice and cheap for me.
Got it in writing they won’t be back billing me either so more fool them.
Anyways back to your internet issues it’ll be the BT Hub as the software can be naff, I’d just go out and buy by own router to be fair and it’ll no doubt solve every issue or find all the stupid family filters blah blah and switch them all of as they’re not necessary
Good idea ! Any recommendations ? Budget being around £60 as i wouldn’t want to spend loads and find out it doesnt help. Some good TP links however £75
I’ve disabled IPV6, turned security on and added whatsapp to the whitelist ( as stated to do on the bt forums ) and kept the setting to always run 4G and WiFi together as @N26throwaway suggested.
IF no luck i’ll consider a new router. At the moment everythings coming in instantly. So confusing
I’ve no recommendations to be fair as I don’t use BT directly I’ve got a PlusNet router which works fine.
Set all your security to low there’s no need for it to be high, I recall with work anyone using BT has to disable a number of security measures that don’t really serve a purpose one bit in other to connect to the VPN as BTs firmware is way too over the top at managing the connections
Fair enough.
I’ll monitor how it works now for a week or so. Then i’ll get a new router if needed
Thanks everyone
It’s 100% not your connection or anything in the background with BT can pretty much guarantee that, it’s the settings on the router just make sure you read up on what can safely be disabled
None of it is enabled. I was advised to enable parental controls and whitelist whatsapp.
Found a good router i’ll get that if no luck 
£60 tops. Some good looking TP links on amazon
I believe so the PlusNet one which is technically BT has this option as I used to use another router attached to it. Would assume it’s baked into BT branded ones