Category: Internet Service Providers

Plusnet is to switch existing customers from the 40/2 wholesale VDSL2 service to the 40/10 product starting in November giving almost all of them a significant improvement in upload speeds.

Agreement has been reached and the expected drop in voice line rental for those who take a ONLY BT landline service is now set to take effect from April 2018 with a reduction of £7 per month.

G.fast is set to reach some ten million premises by 2020 and we have added our first retail package based on the technology, with the provider being Cerberus Networks.

Hyperoptic customers on the two slowest speeds the Gigabit provider offers are set to receive a nice free speed boost. The provider has also rebranded with a new logo.

TalkTalk has improved on its previous offers, with the up to 38 Mbps service now at £25/m and up to 76 Mbps just £2.50/m more.

Broadband providers all have problems at various times, but we believe anyone claiming Virgin Media had a UK wide failure last night is over stating things by a large margin and our own data seems to show a fairly average evening.

The latest offer that is running until 24th October has the Plusnet FTTC available from £22.99 per month on an 18 month contract.

Boundless has rolled out to another area and has happy customers who were so far from their VDSL2 cabinet or ADSL2+ exchange that previous improvements had passed them by.

The trend continues in the financial results of the major broadband providers to provide less and less detail about their broadband sector performance as Sky has published its last quarters results. We make up for that by revealing we believe around 12% of their VDSL2 customers take the fastest product.

Several providers including IDNet, Zen Internet and Merula seem to have some customers suffering packet loss and Internet access problems and it is thought a fix may have found.