More fibre, more pavement dug up

[Dork Lard]

It requires a vast amount of investment to provide, there is a lot more to the network, than just a telephone exchange and some sort of line to your home. In real terms, the cost has dropped dramatically over the years.

It would cost an amount of money in the high numbers, that you would need to take your socks off to count, to create a new tandom network. But that has nothing to do with BT & the network that it controls.

In real terms, the cost to the consumer of making a telephone call has increased dramatically against the cost to the supplier.

I know a bit about this !

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I doubt it has dropped in price, unless you're talking about per megabit but that would be a false way to do things.

We're paying £25 a month but many are paying vastly more. Most major ISPs suck new customers in with a low price then bump it up to more like £50. Many let them get away with this, as switching ISP is too complex a task for many to contemplate.

I have my own router and switch every 18 months. It takes about a minute to change the ISP username and password, but even that usually isn't necessary. All wifi and network setup remains exactly as-is. It goes off at midnight, switches back on at 12:10-ish. Currently awaiting £65 cashback and a £110 amazon voucher for my last switch, as soon as the contract's up I'll tart my way to the next. I pay around £15 a month on average, after deducting the incentives. I even get to flog their new and sealed router on ebay.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I wish they would dig our streets up and lay fibre to the premises. Like a lot of things in Wales our broadband is abysmal.

Are you limited to 20mph ... oops sorry I mean 20Mbps

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

We're paying £25 a month but many are paying vastly more. Most major ISPs suck new customers in with a low price then bump it up to more like £50.

Yep, its a game... I always speak to them, and negotiate a fresh deal at the end of contract. I've been with Plusnet several years now, I am presently paying £23.74, broadband and line.

It goes off at midnight, switches back on at 12:10-ish.

Why??? I once configured my router to do a reboot each night, at 2am, simply to ensure it cleared its cache and got a fresh start each day. That router died/maybe suffered a surge, so I swapped to the ISP one, which lacks a reboot timed command, now I sometimes find a need to do a manual reboot, via the routers webpage - it's up in the loft.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Why??? I once configured my router to do a reboot each night, at 2am, simply to ensure it cleared its cache and got a fresh start each day. That router died/maybe suffered a surge, so I swapped to the ISP one, which lacks a reboot timed command, now I sometimes find a need to do a manual reboot, via the routers webpage - it's up in the loft.

Perhaps I didn't explain. This isn't every night, it's the full upheaval of what happens on switch day if you own your own modem/router and switch ADSL providers. Basically absolutely nothing changes, I checked the router log in the morning and saw that it had been disconnected at midnight then reconnected at ten past. It's a non-event.

But, for the majority who use the ones the ISPs provide, switching is more complicated and possibly even involves changing wifi settings on all devices if they don't know how to change the router's SSID and password to match the old one.