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Posted 7 March 2024
Gigafast broadband only £1 a month for 3 months, £27 a month for 21 month - no price increase (11% Topcasback) (selected areas)
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if available in your area - fantastic price.
Price doesn't increase mid term.
TCB offering 11% cashback - though I don't know how it works.
if its on your initial purchase of £1 - then its rubbish - if its on Total contract amount - its fantastic.
Price doesn't increase mid term.
TCB offering 11% cashback - though I don't know how it works.
if its on your initial purchase of £1 - then its rubbish - if its on Total contract amount - its fantastic.
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Edited by sajidtg, 7 March 2024
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sorted byI would strongly advise to ensure you request a WiFi 6 router, although that might be standard now and also make sure to get them to put it in a central part of the home. Downstairs will be fine as the vertical signal is excellent. I get 600mbps on WiFi in the loft on the 2nd floor with the router on the ground floor. Horizontal signal is not as good, hence why the router needs to be placed centrally to give you the best all round coverage and the possibility of avoiding extenders that work but degrade the signal quite significantly.
The final thing to bear in mind is that unlike the big ISPs, HB do not offer any content filtering so that's something you'll have to source separately, otherwise your kids will have full unfiltered access to the internet which you obviously don't want. They advertise parental controls but when you question them about controlling access to porn sites, their response is laughable. They'll tell you that any website you want to block, just enter the web address manually and you can block it........ so if there's say about 20,000 dodgy websites that you want to block, you'll have to enter every single one of them manually into the browser control panel lol. My solution was to get my own Asus WiFi 6 router that has built in content filtering so by pressing a few buttons, can block access to all 18+ websites.
Overall a great service, just make sure to take the above advice......
it's from experience. (edited)
But it's all clearly expanding at breakneck speed and if everything goes well then it's great and a bargain compared with existing products, if it doesn't then it sucks to be you because they're really too busy for that kind of helping nonsense. You'd probably do better with one of the companies not selling at very low pricing.
Also consider their "standard" out of contract price is awful. You can probably renegotiate, but still.
Wireless speed usually between 800-1.1gb. Upload 7-850..
Very happy, although this deal is just ok. They had 6 months free, then £25 for the next 18 months on TCB for a long time. Still worth it.
Tried to complain about speed but they where making me jump through so many hoops and now want me to return router and pay for the privilege
I used Starlink for a year or so and it also used CGNAT, I ended up renting a dedicated server with a reverse proxy so I could still route traffic back home.
I got the black friday deal of 9 months for £1/months then £29/month (24 month contract) for 1gbit symmetric.
So far service has been good.
I am aware of a single 2 min outage since early December install.
There have also been some temporary routing issues such as inability to access chatgpt (told not in supported country) and throttled/low speed downloads from github.
AFAIK its from me being moved (on my request) to a dynamic public IP as opposed to the GCNAT that is default. These issues are now resolved.
I got a BYOD install and Im using my own router (Unifi UDM), and I'm getting ~900mbit.
I wonder if the bad experience other have is based on use of the ISP provided router?
if its on your initial purchase of £1 - then its rubbish - if its on Total contract amount - its fantastic.' <<<
For those interested:
Myself having just signed up to Hey Broadband, I can confirm that the TopCashback entries showing in my TCB account are: 'Purchase value £1', yielding 'Cashback 9p'.
I assume that TopCashback only applies on a vendor's first purchase value, and does not operate on a rolling monthly basis (eg in the case of monthly telecoms bills).