Unlimited broadband downgrade from fibre

My mother-in-law has fibre broadband, but I am thinking she can save the money and go back down to non-fibre, however she does sometimes use iPlayer.

Any thoughts or concerns to share, or should this be 'straightforward'?

She is with PN and has the HubOne router, which I assume will not need to change?

Thanks

When you say non-fibre, do you mean to an ADSL based package?

Maybe clarify by noting what package she is currently on….and what package she is planning to move to.

In reply to a post by aks:

My mother-in-law has fibre broadband, but I am thinking she can save the money and go back down to non-fibre, however she does sometimes use iPlayer.

Any thoughts or concerns to share, or should this be 'straightforward'?

She is with PN and has the HubOne router, which I assume will not need to change?

Thanks

I doubt that you will save much. I pay Plusnet £21.47 pm for 40/10 FTTC. If you can find a cheaper supplier it may be worthwhile to ring Plusnet and asking them to match the price.

Current package is "Unlimited Fibre" (40/10) anytime landline and mobile calls for £31.99, new deal is £34.27. PN seem to be offering a deal at £1/m less plus £75 gift card for new fibre customers.

However, the "Unlimited Broadband" (10mbs) (which I assume is good old ADSL) is on the PN site at £29.27, so saving her £5/m or £60/y.

The saving is small to many of us, but to an 80+ year old who hardly uses her broadband, I'm thinking why not save whatever I can for her.

I rang PN today and that was an horific experience - I unfortunatelt pressed "1" renewing my contract, and whilst I asked to speak to "retentions as I'm thinking of moving to NOW broadband", the agent told me "I cover sales, renewals, retentions, you name it...you won't get a better deal".

Whilst I would switch in a heartbeat for myself, it would require me to make a trip to set her up with a new router, etc, not the end of the world, but timing might be inconvenient.

Anyway, back to the question, any thoughts on downgrading from fibre back to (I assume) ADSL?

Thanks

Thanks Michael, yes NOW broadband is £18/m and £8/m anytime calls, so £26/m for a 12m contract - and I could get £40 Quidco cashback.

@aks,
I have a similar issue with my mum, she is on ADSL which she got free when a PN deal came up, but with line rental + anytime calls this equates to nearly £30 per month. I've been trying to get her to pay an extra £2 per month for fibre but she is reluctant. The main issue to me is the Anytime calls which is now over £10 per month, I wanted to get her a sim only deal for £5 per month with unlimited calls and texts + 3GB data plus the £2 for fibre and dump landline anytime calls and she would save £3 per month!!
She doesn't use her computer that much, but when I'm doing updates etc it just takes ages, yet I could get it faster and end up being cheaper, but she is stuck in the dark ages. OLD people!!

Anyway, back to the question, any thoughts on downgrading from fibre back to (I assume) ADSL?

Have you looked at the the line stats from the BTW checker for the property?

Good to get an idea of what ADSL could deliver over the line.

Personally if FTTC was decent, then I'd look to stay on that and negotiate with PN or find a suitable social tariff that may offer a better price.

In reply to a post by BB4Tickton:

OLD people!!

Oi !!! 🤬😀

Ditched my AAISP 80/20 FTTC (actual 50+/12'ish) in December 2017 going full tethering to my phone which already had unlimited everything at £22pm. Then dropped the Pulse8broadband landline in January 2018.

Total saving £69pm.

Moved on a bit since, as cloud-based security cam purchases necessitated a mobile broadband router as well. Which also supports my Smart TV and my iPad. See my sig.

I'm 78!

@pluralist,

Only kidding really, glad to see you move with the times
My Gran who is 94 is using a smartphone and a tablet, I'm well impressed!

I realised that, hence the emojiis. As for your gran, that is impressive.
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