Vodafone Broadband

General Chat
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What do people think of Vodafone Broadband

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Terrible. Super unreliable speeds for “fibre optic” broadband - at least in my area (Lewisham). Taking a video call is pointless, cuts off multiple times; unfortunately working from home is a pain as a result!

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Oh ok mine seems to be fine

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Do Vodafone just borrow a BT line or do they have their own fibre?

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Im not sure how it works with vodafone there are a few green boxes outside where i live

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They use openreach. They had to come install a phone line to my house in order to connect me.

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Fair enough.

We don’t have Openreach here, so am I to assume this is a BT iniative?

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Sorry, yes, openreach are BT. They’re the ones that handle all the lines etc.

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Wonder why it’s never brought up that Openreach have a sort of circular hub around one of the UKs cities where they don’t have a single line…

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Openreach and bt are no longer together

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Sounds like they’re splitting as we speak from a quick Google.

It’s only fair that they do.

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I’m not entirely happy. The speed is ample for me, but it does drop out occasionally.

Ill probably go back to BT when my contract ends.

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I don’t fully understand how one provider can be better then the other, if they’re using the same backbone.

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When i first join vodafone they told me was 60 for a new phone line box but bt and sky where charging 20 pound

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Then did Openreach come and install the line?

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No i already had a box im my flat

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Nor me. Unless it’s down to the router. When I first switched to Vodafone, it would drop the connection at the same time every day. It was always within half an hour of 2300. When I complained they said that the speed was good enough (true, but irrelevant) and that it dropped the connection 3 times per day, which was within their limits. It still happens from time to time, but not nearly so often. :man_shrugging:

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TalkTalk use to do that to me i think its them doing it i dont have that problem

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I’ve always assumed TalkTalk are operationally useless. They send me a letter every three months with their latest offers and have even advertised in our local paper, this in an area of the UK they don’t even and cannot cover.

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Talktalk are rubbish and i would advise people not to go with them