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Thinking of switcing to Vodaphone broadband - Big mistake or not ?

I have read a few very negative reviews and it puts me off rather. It is clamed by the BT speed checker that I am guaranteed a minimum speed of 63Mb...currently with sky I am on 10mb

So what are the chances of the minimum speed really with Vodaphone with their 'up to 76Mbit' option ?
 
You don't say if your 10Mbps is ADSL or VDSL, ADSL has a max speed of 24Mbps if on ADSL2+ (21CN) on the ADSL connection (20CN) max speed is 8Mbps. VDSL is also known as FTTC which has max speed of 80Mbps this again depends on distance from the cabinet, the further away you are the speed drops.
 
I'd assume that at 10Mbps you're not taking a Sky Fibre package and are on their normal Sky Broadband Unlimited (ADSL2+) service? If that's the case and the checker is suggesting you'd get 63Mbps on Fibre, be that from Vodafone or any other FTTC supporting ISP, then you probably will get quite a bit more than 10Mbps. However I'd usually cut 20-30% off the 63Mbps estimate to manage your expectations as it's difficult to account for real-world performance.
 
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When I was on ADSL2+ I was only getting speeds around 7Mbps now on FTTC I used to get 61/62Mbps but after a few years dropped to 55Mbps.
 
The age/condition of your line affects the actual speed you will get, not just the distance from the cab, the checkers cannot really allow for this.

As the line ages and gets damaged by weather, the speed slowly drops, although speeds anywhere near those quoted by BT would make everything seem turbo boosted in comparison to ADSL.

Just be aware that not all VDSL packages are the same, some cheaper ones limit your upload speed severely; now you may not think you need a good upload speed, but when you try to send Grandma that 500MB folder of baby photos with a 2Mbps upload, you suddenly feel like you are back in the stone age.

Just remember to factor in line rental, the big boys all charge big money, so the smaller ISPs LOOK poor value, but their often cheaper line rental means they are usually only a few £ more overall - and can work out cheaper at the end of the month, due to BTs extortionist call charges.
 
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The age/condition of your line affects the actual speed you will get, not just the distance from the cab, the checkers cannot really allow for this.

As the line ages and gets damaged by weather, the speed slowly drops, although speeds anywhere near those quoted by BT would make everything seem turbo boosted in comparison to ADSL.

Just be aware that not all VDSL packages are the same, some cheaper ones limit your upload speed severely; now you may not think you need a good upload speed, but when you try to send Grandma that 500MB folder of baby photos with a 2Mbps upload, you suddenly feel like you are back in the stone age.

Just remember to factor in line rental, the big boys all charge big money, so the smaller ISPs LOOK poor value, but their often cheaper line rental means they are usually only a few £ more overall - and can work out cheaper at the end of the month, due to BTs extortionist call charges.

Well Vodaphone include the line rental amazingly if you pay for the £28 a month deal, if you take off line rental it's only £9 a month for the broadband part, I was told upload speeds will be between 7 and 20 Mbit, this would be luxury to me !
 
When I was on ADSL2+ I was only getting speeds around 7Mbps now on FTTC I used to get 61/62Mbps but after a few years dropped to 55Mbps.

This shouldn't happen I think, is this really what everyone on FTTC has to put up with ?
 
This shouldn't happen I think, is this really what everyone on FTTC has to put up with ?

When I took FTTC I was first on the cabinet the speeds dropped due to cross talk which happens as more customers are added to the cabinet.
 
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This shouldn't happen I think, is this really what everyone on FTTC has to put up with ?

As I said, line damage over time; know I dont know what Kits situation is, but the drop in speed could be down to any number of factors, including an over subscribed cabinet causing cross talk errors.

I have a pretty good router that runs its own line tests; in the 3 years I have had fibre, the max line sync speed has dropped by 4Mbps.

However, I still get 80Mbps as the max line sync speed was nearly 102Mbps, and is now 98Mbps.

(My line suffers from tree branch strikes; unless I can get the factory owner to regularly trim them, I need a line replacement every 6-7 years).
 
My problem is cross talk plus dodgy drop line the one coming into the house is over 30 years old and been disturbed a lot with house painting.But as always BT Openreach will not change drop wire until it fails completely....
 
My problem is cross talk plus dodgy drop line the one coming into the house is over 30 years old and been disturbed a lot with house painting.But as always BT Openreach will not change drop wire until it fails completely....

There could always be an accident..........

Years ago, oop Nerth, a really, REALLY bad line and BT wouldnt do anything, so a heavy ladder "slipped" and snapped the line about 10ft from the house.

Accident, honest; that,and a drug addled (and brain damaged* - seriously), builder after his morning spliff.

* Tumour damaged his short term memory, you had to write EVERYTHING down for him; 100% disability benefit, yet still working.
 
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Well just got activated today and wow the speeds are way better than what I expected, 76 Mbit just now and this is over wi-fi

 
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