Aquiss Launch 1.2Gbps and 2.5Gbps UK Broadband Plans via CityFibre
Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss has followed last week’s launch of their first packages based off CityFibre’s growing national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which initially only offered speeds of up to 900Mbps, by today complementing them with the addition of plans based off the 1.2Gbps and 2.5Gbps tiers.
The first 1.2Gbps tier is actually promoted with an average median speed of 1Gbps (1000Mbps) for £45 per month on a 12-month term (discounted to £22.50 for the first 3 months), while their 2.5Gbps tier is promoted as simply 2Gbps and costs £56 per month (discounted to £28 for the first 3 months). The latter is similar to what a lot of other ISPs charge for 1Gbps, which makes it quite attractive.
As before, all packages include symmetric service speeds, unlimited usage, a 12-month minimum contract term, a pledge of no mid-contract price rises, free installation, a static IPv4 address and static IPv6 addresses (/56). But new customers are expected to supply their own broadband router, so you’ll need to make sure you select one that can handle 2.5Gbps LAN ports or faster, if you go for their 2Gbps plan.
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Always brings a tear to my eye when I see posts like this
My internet is so slow, please openreach. Please come to my road, I will buy the posh M&S biscuits for your brews.
Same, Slowreach are just a joke now.
I’m surprised you’re pleading for Openreach instead of a cheaper and/or better value altnet.
I have OR and it’s better than nothing, but some of the alt net deals I’ve seen do make me feel a bit jealous, especially where symmetrical upload speeds are available.
When you say slow, how slow is slow? I hear people saying they have slow broadband and yet still getting a pretty decent 30Mb/s or so, which is ample for the majority of people. People are being manipulated into thinking they need super-duper speedy internet.
If you are getting around 10Mb/s or less then yes that is slow, for today’s world.
I know of someone who until recently could only get ADSL at around 4Mb/s if they were lucky, not that it bothered them, now they have 36Mb/s broadband for £15 a month I think.
Not this old chestnut again! Providers like incompetent BT/Openreach deploying legacy GPON insist on slow upload speeds so you have to get the GIG/900mbps tier just to get circa 100mbps upload which many people need for cloud uploads, multiple people in house using upload and loads of reasons.
Only when you get to the better thought out ALTNETS, do you get symmetric (and VM’s NexFibre) where you can actually go for a lower speed package because upload and download are the same.
I’ve temporarily gone from VM GIG1 to FTTC 50mbps with 7 mbps upstream and its 100% painful. Hopefully full fibre is here this year….
@Ad47uk
‘slow’ is a relative term and in the case of broadband dependent on personal needs and wants.
If you live alone and all you do is stream Netflix in SD/HD whilst casually browsing the web, even 10mbps could be considered ‘good enough’.
Personally, I’d find 30mbps ‘painful’ to live with, considering I regularly deal with large file downloads e.g. games (just looked and Doom Eternal is ~90GB) etc.
I could also imagine a family of 3+ starting to struggle with 30mbps e.g. 3 video streams, downloads, etc.
This also doesn’t include the issues with upload speed, something even my parents would have issues with.
Remember, just because something is fine for you, doesn’t mean that it’s fine for others.
Ad47uk,
You would think after posting 36mb ‘is good enough’ for months or years you would listen to what others tell you. If you are a gamer you need ultrafast speeds to download games and updates. Even 1gbit will soon not be fast enough as games are now over 120gb in size. At 1gbit it still takes ages to download a new game, so saying 36mb is enough is a lot of nonsense. If you dont need gigabit then dont buy it, while respecting others want and use it.
If all you do is labour the same tired point on a single website all day then I imagine 30Mbps is more than sufficient.
For the rest of us who want to download, stream, play games, upload large files and/or share a connection with multiple users who are also doing any of those things, it’s slow.
£45 for 1 gig symmetrical – Where as Yayzi can do it for *checks website* £35 a month on a 1 month contract, they also give you a router, or you can use your own
Nope, I am wrong, a 1 month contract is £41 a month, sorry. the 18 month contract is £35 a month
What does Aquiss do, given that the use CityFibre (nee Entanet) LNSes and core network? Is it just billing and support?
@Ben – Sales.
I’m with No One Internet and get it for £34 for 12 months… Or £32 for 24 months.
Just avoid falling for Vodafone’s offers… They’re terrible
They have the best customer service I’ve ever had from an isp too. The setup for my install was well organised by their MD when I joined and frankly they care. They’ve provided a rock solid service too, which might be their choice of wholesaler or the bits they run, but does that even matter?
@Ben – Pretty much yes, they handle the routing/IP addressing too.
Do they have any IP addresses of their own? From what I see they also use CityFibre’s ASN (8468) and IP addresses (nothing comes up when searching for “aquiss”: https://bgp.tools/search?q=aquiss)… But always happy to be corrected and learn something new!
‘AS215066 – Aquiss Limited’ was assigned by RIPE 5 days ago so looks like changes are underway.
But managed by Veloxserv. Maybe just for their own hosting needs?
@ben – They were using CGNAT, but they bought their own stack of IP addresses, I have a 79. address and I was connected yesterday
They had a bit of an issue with the 185.x address stack showing as US address
Good to see, considering you get free activation and IPv4 & 6 addresses
So Openreach 1.2 & 1.8 next then @Aquiss?
I am on openreach 900 package but would much prefer to be on cityfibre due to lower cost and higher upload. Hopefully Openreach will be forced to lower price and improve products.
Unlikely – Openreach prices are the same nationally, whereas AltNets like CityFibre can pick-and-choose which areas they serve (i.e. only serve areas which are cheap to reach).
not to mention that when Openreach does want to lower prices, and has to ask Ofcom to do so as it is more regulated than the cherrypickers, the altnets bleat and moan because it further destroys their already perilous business models.
The cherry pickers don’t have existing infrastructure and have to use PIA, Ivor, Openreach don’t. We’re back here again and I’ve still no idea why you’re apparently such a fan of Openreach having a monopoly beyond owning BT stock. They’d lower pricing to kill altnets then increase it after they’re gone to maximise profits. Without competition they’d offer the cheapest products to provide and kill any sense of innovation. They would do this because it’s their fiduciary duty to do it to maximise returns for their shareholders. That’s why the regulation.
BT Ivor…
I have 900/115 through the openreach network.
My area has a huge take-up of FTTP due to the slow speeds on FTTC and my online games felt off and higher ping compared to my friends and only get 600mb on a night.
I’ve taken up Quicklines offer and now I have 900/450 free for 17months and my ping has halved and I’m getting 950/480 all day.
Openreachs network at least in my area is so busy GPON is struggling.
You fibre… 2gb/2gb with fixed ip £49 pcm and no price rise for 2 years…