You mentioned £150 and all in one solutions. That all in one solution is £65-ish. Even if you don't take advantage of it, others might.

Correction I said, 'Have you got around £150 to give me to buy one (because I haven't)'. I was quoting time2die when they recommended me a £150 router. Before you say anything I didn't pay £150 for this Home Hub 5.

Edited by Timalay (Mon 13-Jul-15 12:46:02)

Point taken.. Yeah its not exactly a cheap alternative but hopefully in the long run it will provide a better network connection than this HH5.

To be honest i went with Bt because it was costing us £35.99 for Xilo Fibre with a fixed 75 Gig Package and another £12.99 for BT Sport.

I now have the above for £16.99 a month with BT Sport included and unlimited downloads.

To be fair though Xilo are leagues better than BT in terms of speed and service and once this contract ends i will seriously consider using others and not BT.

What i like about the HH5 is the interface and ease of use when you login to the Home Hub.

On Xilo website you need a degree in engineering and web design as it has the most confusing interface for a user with terms for broadband only a technical person would understand.

Now I'm not stupid but I'm not tech savvy either to the point of negotiating myself around the settings on Xilo Website for when you use there broadband service.

Xilo in my opinion were the best provider of broadband i have ever had,but to pay 3 times the money made little to no sense and they need to make there website far more user friendly as its way to technical for most broadband users.

If you went back to xilo, it would be uno, with a completely new website.

I will seriously reconsider RobertoS. i have to say apart from there very confusing control panel and website in general the service they provided was very good,the ticket system was very fast and efficient but trying to get through to actually speak with someone was another matter and on the occasion i did get through they in all honesty didn't seem that interested in the problems i had.

Only Matt himself resolved the few issues i had over the years.and those were very few and far between.

I don't like BT one little bit,but the deal was exceptional at the time but sadly we are talking BT here and things haven't really improved for a massive organisation that in theory should be providing the best service and should be leagues ahead of smaller independent suppliers but they are not ?

Yesterday I ordered line rental from pulse8broadband, moving from BT, to change from £24.31pm rental to £14pm. That gives rental, caller display, basic 1571, ex-directory. I lose E&W, but seeing as my number of outgoing calls in the quarter to 17 April was six ...!

That would be typical. My any network minutes on mobile are far more than I need, and now 0800 is free on mobiles as well. The p8 call charges are a fraction of all the major providers'.

Uno have similar line and call charges to p8's coming but I wanted to get on with things. Also the question on uno of Vat inc or not.

Next thing is to consider over the next fortnight whether to stay with Plusnet or go. The saved £10+ per month opens up the more expensive ISP providers. Current short-list P8 where the line rental is included in FTTC prices, and AAISP Home::1 which has sufficient allowance for me. AAISP also do line-only at £10pm!! You can add their VOIP and that seems to come out in the same low-cost phone service, but I think what I've done is more flexible and easier as a first step away from my core belief in BT as phone service provider.

Well done, I will certainly be looking at Pulse8 when my LRS expires in December. I'm tied into FTTC until next year unless I try the "detrimental effect" route on the phone charges.

My FTTC is behaving OK on speed tests and BQM again, after a short period of chaos a couple of weeks ago. So I'm not sure what to do.

Can't do anything now of course until the phone has moved over. So keeping a closer than normal watch on things. I feel normal use isn't quite right, but still can't be sure that isn't down to my kit.

yeah you done first step.

I am not sure what to say on the broadband situation tho.

do pulse8 use talktalk GEA or BTw GEA for FTTC?

aaisp home::1 if you ok with the price I expect will be a solid choice and you keep ipv6 as well.

I haven't asked yet, but have a feeling from some of prof's posts it is SMPF TT Tails with WLR3 phone. I'll probably alert him and ask for confirmation if he knows, assuming he doesn't spot my posts about them in a while.

He did ask them a lot of questions before he moved to them, before they had FTTC, which he is now on with them.

Although on the face of it their headline FTTC price looks high, it ends up almost identical to Plusnet's. Phone call charges much lower.

I've just had a signable PDF from them and returned it, and also an email from BT regretting my leaving. Scheduled date 28 July.