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Should I ditch Virgin part 3... for realz this time

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With Virgin's latest email regarding the price rises next year it looks like I'm able to exit my current contract penalty free, so that's got me thinking, do I actually ditch Virgin and use Three's 5G?

I have 14 months left on my contract, and I'm paying £22 a month for M250. It looks like in April my price will go up to about £25 a month.

Now, since I forgot to send back my 5G Hub and paid the penalty to keep it, I could just get myself one of the Scancom sims for £250, which would be around £10 a month.

This is the 3rd (I think) time I've considered this, so do I actually pull the trigger this time?
 
First time I'm hearing of Scancom, wow incredible value for EE. However there is a 650GB fair use policy, don't know how strictly they enforce it but for me that's too restrictive.

And the thing is, 5G is great and if you're near a mast you can get great speeds, but nothing beats the reliability and consistency of fibre and copper to your home. I'm about 150m from the VM cabinet, and back when I was with them I always got 8-9ms latency, near zero jitter, no bufferbloat, always 100% advertised speeds, and zero packet loss. Every time. Honestly, above 100 mbps I don't even care about speeds that much, it's much more about consistency of speed, latency, and packet loss.

A mobile connection just doesn't compare. Ping all over the place, jitter, bufferbloat, delayed packets, especially at peak times, it's just not in the same league, even SA 5G. It's very usable, but it's not as good, not even close.

You can haggle with Virgin or try another provider, you can get good deals for £15 or less. I'm getting Community Fibre symmetric gigabit for £12/month for the first year after Amazon voucher and cashback. After that I may hop on another deal. That's how you can save money.
 
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