Unfortunately, this deal has expired 9 June 2022.
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Posted 31 May 2022
Unlimited Fibre Broadband (63Mb average download speed) £22 p/m 12 months + £5 delivery (New customers + £85 TCB Cashback) @ Now
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About this deal
This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
Now TV Super Fibre (63Mb average speed) FTTC broadband is available with £85 cashback from TCB. There's a £5 delivery fee (for the router), but no activation cost, and it's only a 12 month contract (most broadband providers are 18/24 months) making the cost effectively £15.34 per month.
Virgin Media offer some higher speeds but their deals are dependent on receiving vouchers rather than pure cashback (and you of course have the gauntlet of VM customer services to run), the 12 month contract here is attractive IMO and only one other FTTC provider (onestream) gets near to the same price with new customer incentives for a 60-70Mb service.
Additionally, payment can be taken by card, if you have a Chase debit card with the 1% cashback active, you may well be able to bring the overall contract cost down to an effective £15.12 per month.
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Virgin Media offer some higher speeds but their deals are dependent on receiving vouchers rather than pure cashback (and you of course have the gauntlet of VM customer services to run), the 12 month contract here is attractive IMO and only one other FTTC provider (onestream) gets near to the same price with new customer incentives for a 60-70Mb service.
Additionally, payment can be taken by card, if you have a Chase debit card with the 1% cashback active, you may well be able to bring the overall contract cost down to an effective £15.12 per month.
topcashback.co.uk/now…nd/
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Edited by MotoFan_212, 31 May 2022
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sorted byI pay £21 PCM, but got the £85 cashback from TCB. Paid £5 for the router (took a while to come mind!). I also got free anytime calls to UK landlines, mobiles etc for the first 12 months! Free line rental! And a 12 month contract!
My house is 3-storey, have the router on the ground floor and the internet works perfectly throughout the entire house. Called their CS a couple of times - all based in the UK it would seem and I didn’t even hear the phone ring when I called, immediately picked up! They were really helpful too.
The only thing I’m a bit miffed about is the fact the fibre runs to the green box down the road and it doesn’t run to the house. I called them about it and they said they don’t offer fibre to the house, only to the green boxes apparently? I asked if an engineer could come out (as per the OpenReach engineer) but they said they don’t do this; other suppliers do but NOW don’t. Dunno what difference it really makes but mine works perfectly!
I also got the BT quad pack of landlines that were on here for £39.99! With TCB they worked out just over £35 for 4 phones!
If you still have the BT router you should be able to use that by plugging into the now one and disabling dchp. You can also then turn off the wireless on the now box.
I have this and the router range seems fine, a lot better than a Vodafone router I had before.
It's not a very customisable router though, ie you can't change DNS servers on it.
Used to have 51mbps now dropped to 36-40, they claim I'm getting 44 which I definitely aren't and won't do anything about it.
Yes, it includes line rental. One of the few providers who do include it, I believe.
Assume you are a TCB plus member? I am not so was not aware of that cashback uplift, but makes the deal an additional £1.25 a month cheaper for those with a TCB plus membership.
I guess its even worth considering joining TCB plus just for the deal, as it would cost you £5 but save an extra £15, leaving you a tenner better off overall... In fact if that and the Chase 1% thing works, you could potentially pay as little as £13.87 effective p/m if you have the TCB plus already. (edited)
You're right, I got anytime calls included in mine when I signed up. When the contract ended they said they'd just leave me on the deal I was on, so I retained the anytime calls. On my bill I see it for £8 but then there's a -£8 to cancel it out. It's recently gone up to £24pm overall for me, but I'm not complaining about an extra £2.
yep, always included anytime free of charge before...need to watch this when my current now bb deal runs out, might have to switch out for a year and then back in to take advantage of the topcashback if they won't extend the current deal to include anytime calls
They definitely were, I remember seeing them whilst looking for my parents, wish I'd sorted it for them now as they wanted anytime calls
It only runs to the green cab as it's fttc as you mentioned, not fttp which you can't get from Now at the moment, but maybe they will do in future. Fttp provides faster speeds, that's about it. And no copper line rental.
I use a Draytek 2860 which acheives same speed as supplied router (and more secure as far as i am concerned) bit of a faff to set up but has worked flawlessly for months
No wonder people will use less and less of landline calls.
Killing the goose that lays the proverbial golden eggs.
So the short answer: it doesn't matter, you can escape the clutches of BT expensive phone service. (edited)
Mine did!
Mine was free for the first 12 months - I signed up a couple of weeks ago so maybe the deal has since changed..? (edited)
I know it may be a bit of a strange question but do you find the router to have good range please and also would you know if the router can have split channels please (Plusnet and BT's new one can't) as my children's tablets wouldn't work on my BT Hub before I split the channels.
I was about to say this. I believe as recently as last month they were offering anytime calls with this. Might be worth waiting to see if there any any Jubilee/Holiday deals, although it’s likely you may miss out on this one with no guarantees of anything better coming along…
You can split the channels.
But the router they give you doesn't seem to have a good range, according to many.
Is it possible to use your own modem/router? Can the supplied router be used in modem-only (bridge?) mode?
I use mine on each floor (3) and it’s based on the ground floor - works fine still on the upper floor!
Not in my experience, getting through to a human is quite tricky
Same with my experience, my router broke after something fell on it and the woman I got on the phone was really helpful, she ordered me a new router without any fuss the whole phone call lasted probably about 3 mins and she fixed the problem by ordering a replacement router, they also phoned me back a week later to make sure everything has been solved, Newcastle accent too
Internet is still pretty bad in this country. I already had 100mbit+ in 2013 in the capital of Switzerland (edited)
this is 'Fibre to the Cabinet' - so from the green box in the street to your house it uses copper, which causes signal degradation based on distance, cable condition and even environmental conditions. not perfect, but I think the 63Mb average claimed is more than enough for most households... I had a household of 7, with many many connected devices, running off a similar line during lockdown and we managed to avoid killing each other
they sent an email saing i will be paying the same after the contract ends. Not sure wether to change top stay now!
I was having probems with wifi then i got the sky router off ebay and that helped remdy some proboems with the wifi. (edited)
Not a bad deal but not that long ago I signed up at £20 a month with anytime calls and £80 Quidco (which is taking ages to be paid).
Sync speed is equal to or better than previous BT Broadband.
Installed last week all good.
Using TP-Link Archer VR400 modem router, as recommended by others. Even the BT engineer acknowledged that the provided Now TV modem router isn't so great.
P.S. I needed to position the router further away from the master socket for improved WiFi range. On recommendation from others I used a good quality 10m Cat5 RJ11 - RJ11 cable from RGB Networks. I can confirm this did not impact the sync speed. Happy Days. (edited)