Super fast broadband, moving house

Posted 4th Aug 2023
Hi,

I’m moving house by the 7th. Need internet on the day I move (can wait for a day ) .

I will be working from home, need at least 100mbps (with no dips in bandwidth), low latency as I need video calling/voice (zoom + Microsoft teams + Skype), 4k video streaming on Netflix, occasional online gaming (so I can be a low ping b****), good customer support, reliable. I absolutely do not want any issues with NAT (sites constantly giving me captchas, online banking apps failing on me, heard horrible stories about this).

I don’t need TV channels + Phone (will mostly use Netflix or Amazon) .

Any deals available?

Are 18 mo contracts the minimum?



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  1. JimboParrot's avatar
    Not sure you'll get it up and running by Monday or Tuesday of next week though?
    jco83's avatar
    This. I ordered Now broadband on 31st July and earliest activation date was 10th August. So 10 days after order
  2. The2Time's avatar
    I mean, put your postcode into Uswitch.
    RottenCucumbers's avatar
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    Sorry man, old timer here 🙏 . Will do now.
  3. Toon_army's avatar
    To be honest you'd be able to get away with 50meg for all your needs if push comes to shove.
    I'm with Virgin 276meg, really don't need that much but if I dropped to say 100meg the price would double
    Low latency you only really need for online video gaming like say CoD, video calls will be fine.
    RottenCucumbers's avatar
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    Family of 4, (3 TVs that may require 4K at the same time peak load) . You think 50megs would cut it?
  4. TinplateGeek's avatar
    Try using ThinkBroadband to see what type of connections you can get in the new house and then run from there. It shows any network so will show up any odd altnet FTTP suppliers as well as the normal ones.
    thinkbroadband.com/pac…ges
  5. sm9690's avatar
    I'm coming round for a cuppa
    RottenCucumbers's avatar
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  6. Isaac_McCafferty's avatar
    Don’t want to ask where you live but we’re in Lincolnshire and have lightspeed. 1000mb download for £29.98 24m contract.
    RottenCucumbers's avatar
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    Yeah unfortunately not available in my area
  7. harrythefish's avatar
    I was in Cornwall working some days out of an Airbnb. The very best speed I could get using any out of WiFi, Vodaphone or Three hotspots was 1 Mbps.

    Somehow I was still able to work, including use of the company VPN. Most work was web based apart from some minor down or uploading. Even Teams video worked in both directions. Plus it's possible to move files around Onedrive without actually down or uploading them. I set the WiFi connection to 'metered' so the laptop didn't attempt to do any Windows update.

    I was rather impressed with what's possible on 1 Mbps. Goes without saying, don't try this if you're video editing or publishing to Github.
    RottenCucumbers's avatar
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    Ahhh brings back memories of my 512kbps eclipse internet ADSL with massive ugly blue modem circa 2001 when I first got broadband and played RTCW (return to castle wolfenstein) multiplayer to death (free beach map / allies Vs axis map)….
  8. harrythefish's avatar
    Must say though, that to expect 100 Mbps on day one in a new home is a tall ask. When millions of UK homes would love a reliable connection at a quarter of that speed. Day one internet of any kind outside of a mobile phone hotspot is in any case very exceptional. I sold a flat that had fibre to the corridor and when the last tenant left, the router stayed in place and there was a card from the fibre provider saying instant internet free for 3 months just turn it on. That's real, and how all of the UK should be.
    RottenCucumbers's avatar
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    Bruh, you’re a saint . And I really do need to get my expectations lower. So what should I do in the meanwhile, empty house, kids whining, no internet anything I can do quickly in the meanwhile to at least get 5mbps coverage using mobile phone / some 4G device ?
  9. AndyRoyd's avatar
    Solution today:

    as OP indicates good 3 signal at location, an immediate solution whilst arranging permanent arrangement would be:
    • walk into a high street Superdrug and spend £20 on its unlimited data SIM
    • shove Superdrug unlim SIM into handset
    • activate hotspot on handset
    Job done.

    Optionally if using an Android handset:
    walk into CEX and spend £8+ on an Asus x5x or above router having a USB port, then benefit from all standard router functionality such as
    • deep penetration dual band wifi
    • wired ethernet
    • and even integral VPN client & torrent client options
    via USB tethering the Android handset to the router whilst the router also charges/powers the handset.
    Maybe £1 extra for a suitable standard USB cable if you don't have one kicking around.
    RottenCucumbers's avatar
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    Android handset (luckily got spare) + router cracking solution in the interim m8, will put it into action!
  10. SoloKingxRobert's avatar
    YouFibre is only £21,99 per month for Download Speed 150Mbps and Upload Speed 150Mbps
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