mcbrucer
Member
Hello everybody - it’s my first post here and it’s that time of year (or year and a half) again..!
I’m currently with Vodafone on the up-to 75 super fast 2 plan for £24 /month.
To be fair, aside from the nowhere-near-what’s-promised speed and the couple of service issues I’ve had with them where my kit just kept on disconnecting, it been working reasonably well for the past 5 or 6 months.
Last time I had problems though, their support people drove me up the wall with the constant daft questions and trying to blame my equipment (I use my own vdsl modem with a vpn router). In the end (after about a month) it all just started working again. Anyway, this last experience made me think i’d spend some time finding a good service next time and stay away from whichever offered the best deal.
So, I understand that Zen are very well regarded - In fact I use them myself at work for some backup FTTC - and they’re offering up-to 62 for £38.99 /month. Sounds great. Although Plusnet who seem to be the best of mass market bunch, offer a similar service for £27.99 /month. That’s £132 / year cheaper and despite my new resolve - it’s a decent wedge of cash to be hanging on to.
So, I’d appreciate your thoughts on if it’s worth paying £132/year for Zen over Plusnet.
As I mentioned, I like to use my own equipment (Draytek Vigor 130 & Linksys WRT1900ACS running VPN firmware and a separate Tenda WiFi solution).
We do a fair bit of streaming audio and video and I have multiple teenagers in the house playing xbox, Netflix and other online services. If there’s any kind of service disruption, I’ll have someone moaning and grunting at me in seconds flat..!
Appreciate your thoughts and opinions!
Thanks in advance.
I’m currently with Vodafone on the up-to 75 super fast 2 plan for £24 /month.
To be fair, aside from the nowhere-near-what’s-promised speed and the couple of service issues I’ve had with them where my kit just kept on disconnecting, it been working reasonably well for the past 5 or 6 months.
Last time I had problems though, their support people drove me up the wall with the constant daft questions and trying to blame my equipment (I use my own vdsl modem with a vpn router). In the end (after about a month) it all just started working again. Anyway, this last experience made me think i’d spend some time finding a good service next time and stay away from whichever offered the best deal.
So, I understand that Zen are very well regarded - In fact I use them myself at work for some backup FTTC - and they’re offering up-to 62 for £38.99 /month. Sounds great. Although Plusnet who seem to be the best of mass market bunch, offer a similar service for £27.99 /month. That’s £132 / year cheaper and despite my new resolve - it’s a decent wedge of cash to be hanging on to.
So, I’d appreciate your thoughts on if it’s worth paying £132/year for Zen over Plusnet.
As I mentioned, I like to use my own equipment (Draytek Vigor 130 & Linksys WRT1900ACS running VPN firmware and a separate Tenda WiFi solution).
We do a fair bit of streaming audio and video and I have multiple teenagers in the house playing xbox, Netflix and other online services. If there’s any kind of service disruption, I’ll have someone moaning and grunting at me in seconds flat..!
Appreciate your thoughts and opinions!
Thanks in advance.