Vodafone Broadband

K.S.H · 21-01-2007, 19:16

I know its a new service but anyone signed up for it or heard any reports? LINK
Seems very good value at £25 a month (If you have a Voda mobile contract) which includes line rental, 8meg unlimited broadband and free landline phone calls.
I'm currently on with Pipex at £24 a month for 2 meg and have to pay Bt for the line rental - £9.99 a month and my calls go through www.1899.com , totalling about £38 a month.
Pipex have brought out better packages now but you can't upgrade yet, say they are having upgrade problems, have been for 4 month +

Just sent them an email to ask when it will be available and that I dont want a reply telling me to ring tele-sales, i've done that and get no-where with them, next call will be for my MAC code, might as well save myself £13 a month

K.S.H · 21-01-2007, 19:44

Only downsides I can find are 18 month contract and no web-space, none of which really bother me.
Found a forum talking about it and everything seems to be going Ok for the few that have signed up.
Wonder what BT will charge if you ever cancelled it and went back to BT ???

andrewb · 21-01-2007, 19:52

I would be very hesitant to lock yourself in to a 18 month broadband contract..

K.S.H · 21-01-2007, 19:57

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Originally Posted by Cyfr

I would be very hesitant to lock yourself in to a 18 month broadband contract..

I'm not bothered about that if its good service, not one for swapping and changing a lot, if the service is really bad and there not providing you with what you want you can get out anyway

lancsdave · 21-01-2007, 20:00

Technicallity but I would assume thats UP TO 8mb broadband. If you go to the BT website you can check the actual speed you can get up to because Vodafone are using BT networks.

K.S.H · 21-01-2007, 20:03

Already done the checks and I "should" be able to get up to 8mb where I am

entwisi · 21-01-2007, 20:28

This is £25 on to of your vodaphone contract?

Doesn't sound cheap to me particularly when you compare it with Oranges free broadband if you have a £30 contract.

so my totals are £30 mobile and £10 BT = £40 for my mobile, landlane and broadband all in.

And then theres Sky if you have a sports package....

K.S.H · 21-01-2007, 20:38

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Originally Posted by entwisi

This is £25 on to of your vodaphone contract?

Doesn't sound cheap to me particularly when you compare it with Oranges free broadband if you have a £30 contract.

so my totals are £30 mobile and £10 BT = £40 for my mobile, landlane and broadband all in.

And then theres Sky if you have a sports package....

Yeah, on top of your mobile contract.
But thats £30 mobile, £10 BT plus any calls made which would be about £45+ for me, same as its gonna cost with this package but will have unlimited calls and I will get faster speeds so works out Ok for me

entwisi · 21-01-2007, 20:53

so £30 mobile, £25 broadband? = £55/month?

K.S.H · 21-01-2007, 21:03

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Originally Posted by entwisi

so £30 mobile, £25 broadband? = £55/month?

Mine isn't £30, £21 a month, been on same tariff for a few year

K.S.H · 22-01-2007, 09:44

Got a reply from Pipex and it is now possible for existing customers to upgrade, doesn't say so on the web-site though, still says coming soon

Now i'm really undecided on what to do, go with Vodafone for a cheaper option or stay with Pipex who I have had no problems with, keep all my email addy's, webspace, get up to 8 meg, free phone calls but still have to pay BT line rental, might save a couple of quid in phone calls at the most

entwisi · 22-01-2007, 11:41

Pipex were always ultra reliable for me

Orange have been fine up to now apart from a few issues when I switched over. However having to try and sort those was far more difficult with Orange than I woudl have liked. plus I found Orange 'restrict' things for no good reason, e.g. I have my own email domain and have used it over the years from numerous ISPs yet Orange wouldn't let me send over SMTP via them, I could only use Orange's SMTP server. This was apain for me as it meant chamging it every day when I was at work or at home. I found a way round it as my email service run SMTP on a non standard port so we can get round issues like this.

Check that things like no ports are blocked on teh Vodaphone deal, A lot of ISPs also block port 80 and aren't too happy to allow stuff like VNC or ssh

***Mr D*** · 22-01-2007, 11:54

Is it worth all the messing if you are happy with pipex.

Better the devil you know.

andrewb · 22-01-2007, 19:20

Do pipex not do adsl2+? As in Upto24Meg broadband?

Pipex now own all the bulldog customers (me), and I get 24Meg. I thought pipex were using the bulldog network to unbundle people too.. so seems only logical that pipex should offer 24Meg where Bulldog have unbundled the exchange?

K.S.H · 23-01-2007, 06:29

Dont think so but i'll check later, sure they only advertise up to 8meg