In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Never imagined I would consider Broadband speeds a factor in house purchasing!

I have moved, either to rented or bought, 3 times since my original Metronet fixed 1 meg … and what speeds I would be able to get has flavoured the choice greatly.

No FTTP available on this estate (though Lord knows why not, all nicely ducted) lots of family homes eager for bandwidth, an easy win for whoever installs first).

105m to the cab. Nailed up 80meg, then got G.fast when it came out. All very happy.

MetroNet now there's a blast from the past. I first moved up to Manchester (where I have now bought a house) in the early 2000's and I joined MetroNet (well the other half at the time did) for our ADSL service, from there I moved to Virgin Media (ADSL) and then onto other providers. I remember having a second phone line installed during the dial up day's so that my Parents phone line wasn't engaged with me being online all the time.

How times and speeds have changed!

MetroNet have been absorbed into M247 now along with Venus and the quality of the service is in the toilet. It's a shame but they seem to have a "pile it high, sell it cheap" model now.

In reply to a post by CJT:

zyborg47

Which I am thankfully.

Decided to go for a faster service as it was available.

Other properties I looked at had FTTP.

Never imagined I would consider Broadband speeds a factor in house purchasing!

I can't see myself ever purchasing a house now to be honest unless I win the lottery or move in with the other half and then that is her house, not mine. Broadband is fine where she is as she has FTTP, which is strange since she lives in a small village.


I am not saying i would not look at broadband speeds if i moved, but as long as i can get at least the same speed i have now, that is fine.

In reply to a post by jpm:

MetroNet have been absorbed into M247 now along with Venus and the quality of the service is in the toilet. It's a shame but they seem to have a "pile it high, sell it cheap" model now.

i loved Metronet, it was a great ISP and then plusnet grabbed hold of it, so I vanished very quickly from it. Now i am back with plusnet.

jpm

I think we maybe talking about different MetroNet's.

THIS Metronet has been part of PlusNet for years!

zyborg247

They were indeed consumed (I think that's an appropriate word) by PlusNet along with MAAF (Mad As A Fish). My parents are with PN and I have never had an issue with them, sadly they don't offer G.Fast.

Just to let you know the Openreach engineer arrived (as booked) on Monday with a Modem for the G/Fast service, and finally (due to a delay with TT) the router arrived yesterday.

Will update my Sig soon as I am still at the previous rented property moving things.

How is the service/speed/congestion? All good? I'm looking to do a similar move (hyperoptic to TT Gfast)

In reply to a post by mr_mojo:

How is the service/speed/congestion? All good? I'm looking to do a similar move (hyperoptic to TT Gfast)

Hi mr_mojo

No issues here, getting the full 150 Mbps. TT Support (via the forum) have been fine, and oddly I got a £5.25 credit for them not sending the router in time to get me going on day 1. So I have to say "So far, very good". Not sure I will use their router long term, but for now it works.