So thought I’d throw this up, in a similar style to the electricity and gas switching deals available
one big switch have a deal for eir Broadband €35 a month and €100 credit added to your account for new residential account holders, if you’ve had eir before use spouses name which I’ve done in the past
just saw on the preview of the Independent for monday
front page headline says
plans to ban automatic price rises by broadband providers
guessing it will lead to something like this
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/ofcom-graham-citizens-advice-briton-which-b1126341.html
updated link to today paper is now published
https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/plans-to-ban-automatic-price-rises-linked-to-inflation-by-broadband-providers/a1978976687.html
Nope, yours to keep
Do Pure look for the Fritzbox 7530 back at the end of the 12 months or can I sell it?
I've mine connected directly to my Asus router so have no need for it.
Moved to Sky from Virgin. First time ever, since the UPC days. €35 for 500Mbps.
Getting 495Mbps down, and 50Mbps+ Up. Good ping and the like. No throttling.
Aside from the lack of phone line, it's a great deal.
Changed over to Sky from Virgin on Friday 500mb, €30 a month for a year instead of Virgin's €51 original quote then lowered to €35 a month.
5 minutes to set up, Sky 78.5 mbps download/57.8 upload against Virgin's 72.9/42.8.
20 minutes after setting up the Sky Router, I got a text from Virgin offering me "half price Broadband for 12 months".
Keep an eye out on done deal or adverts, you can pick up another fritzbox and use that to make a mesh network, and drop the extender.
I made the switch from Vodafone to Pure Telecom.
Vodafone wouldn't let me have the deal where you get it for 30 euro for 6 months and 40 for the other 6. The best they would do was 40 a month or 35 euro for 6 and 45 for 6 which was the same and would end up costing me 40 a month so I decided screw that I'm jumping ship. They had upped my monthly charge to 50 euros a month out of contract also and while on contract they had changed my monthly charge from what was supposed to be 40 to 45 so I was glad to get away from Vodafone and their greed. I didn't trust Vodafone anymore after that anyway.
So I made the switch on Bonkers last wednesday week, Pure rang me on the Thursday to arrange everything and the Fritzbox 7530 made it to me on the Saturday via the courier. The switchover happened this Thursday and Pure informed via text that it was happening on the previous Saturday. So Vodafone disconnected me about 10:30 am on thursday and I was back up and running with Pure in about half an hour. I had to connect my Wifi extender so that probably took me about another half an hour because I didn't reset it properly first time around.
Anyway my download speed was 48 meg with Vodafone and it's now 72 meg with Pure and can go up to 76 meg at times too. Upload speed is about 16 megs.
It's better than Vodafone obviously. I'm not much into online shooters so I tried out Rocket League as it's free to play and not too big(all the shooters are around 100 gigs) and I didn't notice any lag or latency issues at all, felt perfect. Anyway I'm very happy, for me Pure are better than Vodafone and so far all is very good. I'm now glad Vodafone didn't do any deals with me because I'm getting a better speed now from Pure. I am on fibre to the cabinet.
Very happy with Pure so far, very good and given my experience I would recommend Pure. 30 euro a month with Pure is the deal I got for 12 months on Bonkers.
when I recontract the agent in chat didn't mention it. it is on the website, but If I do get a price increase I have chat message from them stating total price for 6 months 30 and total price for 6 months 40. Last year I did get the price increase and once I questioned it that we had agreed to price of 30Euro for 12months they removed it.
Yes I have it on my contract but agent said it will be flat fee of 30/6+40/6.Will see on next month bill.I have transcript of chat just in case
Did they say anything about the prices increasing by CPI+3% from 2 April? I think it's in their T&C's.
I am going back to tp-link plus sim myself had it running with gomo 4g for 2 yrs done everything i needed but in the end i needed a second sim as usage started to rise and with their 120gb limit, this time i will try VM 4g as im in a good VM area. See how she goes. Eir 5g mobile broadband worked great too for 12 months but rising to e45 so I guess im bored and moving on again
Ultra fast max from sky seems good for my next switch, eir are charging €45 for that and it’s a 2 year contract
Sky should meet what you need.
https://www.sky.com/ie/broadband
Re. Virgin Media (500mb for €70 per month)
I gave notice to quit last week. I'd spoken to a couple of agents and the best offer they could give me was 9 months half price,3 months full price. Today received an SMS offering a loyalty deal of 12 months half price. Happy enough with service so signed up via the SMS link for another year.
Currently with Vodafone fibre 500mb @ 40€ a month.
Im with them for years and never really had any issue.
Went on live chat got and got new contract 30/6-months+40/6months.
Agent sent me T&C on live chat and new contract to my email. All took like 5min without calling anyone..
I am in the same situation and considering moving to 4/5g broadband with a tp link modem and Sim only plan like 48/go mo. I don't need 1gbs download.
Currently on the “Gigabit 1000 Fibre” broadband from Vodafone. When I first signed up it was €40 per month, now it’s €70. It’s broadband only im paying for.
Is there any better deals out there for a fully unlimited package that’s offers up to 1GB or more? I would be hoping to pay less than €70 a month and would be a set price without an increase after initial sign up.
Vodafone for years, Broadband and TV (for my sins), legacy multiform, €90 a month. I don't need TV anymore so to downgrade they would put me into a new 12 month contract at €40 a month. Can cancel anytime as out of contract so do not require 30 days notice. PURE seems my best option, like others. Cannot get FTTH so limited options.
You should get your own mesh for about 100 quid, better 5Ghz wifi and no longer needing to be concerned about which modem you get as all it does is route. (I know mesh stations can route but I've found you get faster speeds if the supplied modem does the routing/dhcp)
Got a phone call off them today (Saturday) asking would I consider not leaving them and again offering me the half price 500mb offer.
Told her I had taken the cheaper Sky offer for €30 a month, she wasn't impressed.
That's great, really helpful, thank you, appreciate it 😊
No and after 12 months price only increases by €5 for another 12 months with no new contract.
Agreed. Recently switched from VF to Sky. Sky router has significantly better wifi.
That's great, thanks.
Just what I wanted to hear. I've just placed an order with sky for 500Mb for €30 for 12 months.
Do they add on any sneaky costs throughout the year like some of the other providers?
Vodafone’s Gigabox is sh1te. Wireless speeds fluctuate like mad. Skys hub router is much more reliable from experience.
Does anyone know what router Sky or Vodafone provide?
Looking to go with NBI connection and I think I have it narrowed down to these two
Any ideas who who provides the best router?
...
Got another text off them offering me half price again at €35 a month but decided to go with Sky (Ultrafast+ up to 500mbps) at €30 a month instead.
Switched from sky to pure about 6 months ago and that is exactly what happens. They posted me a router and I just switched. No down time
With Virgin, you need to have them activated IPv4 and put the Virgin Router into Modem mode. Then you connect your chosen router in and that then handles your DHCP, WiFi and any other bells and whistles you want to run.
Recommendations wise, it's very much horses for courses. I use Asus RT-AX88U as my main router with another AC86U as an access point/repeater in an outbuilding. I use my router to run 2 concurrent VPNs for work/hobby related stuff. It also runs my ad-blocker via Diversion. I stick with Asus solely because it's what I know, it was the 1st router firmware I played around with and I kinda know where everything is now.
I also have a few devices set to specific DNS routing for my smart TVs. That allows me to access region locked TV and video apps without messing with device level settings, and keeping the rest of the traffic isolated.
It's very easy for me to say "oh get this because it's better" but the truth is that everyone's use case will be different. My advice would be look at what you need the router to do, and then add what you would like it to do.
Mine has 14 or so wired devices via a switch and supports about 35 wireless with plenty of overhead to spare.
Splitting my WLAN into 2.4ghz & 5ghz along with additional guest works means I have decent granular control over my WiFi networks and devices.
Now all that said? Other routers are available and some are far better. Ubiquiti stuff in particular is rock solid business grade gear.
