I'm very happy with my Aquiss FTTP connection. They have a six months half price offer currently, which twisted my arm to move from iDNET when I upgraded from FTTC

Hi Fido
Thank you so much for such an in depth response, very interesting, yes with the 4 or so years I have been with BT the RPi linked increases, especially more recently, have been punchy.
Zen were one that I considered as I used them way back in the dark old 5meg download days, they were good then but I discounted them from my list from the many stories on the forums similar to yours.
I think that fixed price deal you have would help make me loyal to them too, and I hear such good things about the Fritzbox hardware.
I have started to migrate my services away, starting with the mobile and landline services but the extra expense on buying new hardware and what hardware to buy is making me consider staying for the 900/120.
Thanks again
K

Hi Ferret
Thank you for that, yes, I have spoken with Martin from Aquiss a long time ago and he comes across as a decent chap on here, thanks for the reminder.
K

In reply to a post by keymaster:

I have started to migrate my services away, starting with the mobile and landline services but the extra expense on buying new hardware and what hardware to buy is making me consider staying for the 900/120.
Thanks again
K

Hi K,

Personally, I would separate the FTTP broadband provider, the landline equivolent / ie. The VOIP provider and the mobile provider as whenever you change one of these the others can stay just as they are.

For VOIP I only have a rolling one month contract and my own hardware is a Gigaset N300A Base Station, (one off cost was about £50), and four Gigaset C575A Phones, (one off cost was about £25 each). - I presently have two VOIP Providers both working off the one N300A base station. (ie. Sipgate Starter and Voipify). - Sipgate Starter is ending in 2023 and has already ended for new customers. - Voipify does have a base cost of £4.20 per month, (including VAT), which is higher than some but with Voipify most UK calls costs are very low, (0.6p per minute including VAT), and overseas and mobile call costs are also low so it balances out and overall all VOIP providers seem much cheaper than landline. - I did not bother porting the old landline number when I went over to VOIP and all if the nuisance calls went away. - Landlines are all supposed to be ending in 2025 so VOIP is the way to go if you do not just want a mobile but in a power cut or loss of internet VOIP does not work.

The are lots of good mobile Sim Only deals.

Regards,
Fido

In reply to a post by ferretuk:

I'm very happy with my Aquiss FTTP connection. They have a six months half price offer currently, which twisted my arm to move from iDNET when I upgraded from FTTC

Just to echo this, I went live on an Aquiss FTTP connection yesterday having moved from VM - spoke to Martin as initially I couldn't get connected (turns out I had to specify a gateway in pfsense) but been very pleased so far. Connection quality is far better than my VM connection.

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|Hi Fido
Thanks again for advice, I have ported 2 of the 3 sims for mobile away this weekend, the landline from BT is already voip, but I will move that away also, I used to have a call plan with voiptalk, so may try that again and dig my Snom Voip out the cupboard.
As I have a smart hub2 and a couple of the BT disks I think that new hardware would be expensive for me to replace with something decent.
I have the old style ONT on the wall with the battery back up.
thanks again
K