In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

Plus Net are not throttling the new unlimited services at all, they do still prioritise traffic, but that is different to throttling.

Yeah, "different".

Is the relative on the same exchange, I forget? (If we ever knew).

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

He wouldn't be migrating mid-install. He would just be cancelling the FTTC install. The question that then remains is whether he could keep the recently installed Sky phone line on an SMPF basis and order FTTC from elsewhere.

I've just had a look at the Plusnet unlimited fibre package and there's a £49.99 installation charge if your line isn't with BT.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Yeah, "different".

I'm thinking the same The whole ISP has been designed for years and offering products for those whose primary use of the internet is email and web. Anything else was "managed" traffic.

Now I appreciate other ISPs do this and don't talk about it, but personally don't like the fact that web/email is higher priority under some strange scale than any other protocol I use. (I get why BT throttle BitTorrent, but I don't like it). Which is why I was with BE - and would be with AAISP if I could afford their rates for 50Gb a month.

What you say is close to right, but isn't, in three respects.

The very minor one is that the possible charge is £50. So you may be looking in the wrong place.

Far more important is that the £50 is if you don't take Plusnet Home Phone. I'd be extremely surprised if you can find any ISP that offers FTTC with a free install if you don't take the same ISP's phone line rental. So what's the problem with that?

Finally you say "if your line isn't with BT". I've no idea where you got that from, but it's just not the case. It could be you have misunderstood something.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Is the relative on the same exchange, I forget? (If we ever knew).

Yes, same exchange: WEWHAM.

Thanks. There's a post in another thread/exchange ordered Thursday and that is down for Christmas Eve or 1/1/13 as well. Not confirmed yet though.

I'm still waiting for the 7th, and, having used up pretty much all my bundled data allowance I can get across several devices (I really miss my Galaxy Nexus on Three with unlimited data, sucks I have no signal here) I'm not relying solely on my trusty old iPhone4 and O2's freedom to let me purchase additional 1GB of data.

In slightly different news, I managed to persuade the lady from VM's India movers team to do a quick swap on the broadband account I have at my relative's property. After they 'found the codes' on their 'system' (sounds so archaic, as if it's the first time they're doing this), the modem stopped working there, but alas right now it doesn't work at my flat yet.

Also, I reactivated my Sky TV package today, and told them I only have one satellite cable running in to my flat so I had to set my box to Single Feed mode. They promptly offered me a £10 engineer on Saturday to run a new cable. I wish they would treat internet installations and service with the same respect and dignity. Bah.

If Sky had their own engineers for broadband you would get somebody as quickly as you do for the TV.

Unfortunately they are reliant on BT openreach who I've never had a great experience with... Once it's all up and running it'll be fine and you'll be happy

To help with data usage turn off windows updates for now as they can easily eat lots of data.

Sky also make big money from their TV side. Probably not a lot from broadband.