I’m with what is probably called an Alt-net, fibre heroes (own the install) and IDNet for the actually internet connection 500mbps symmetrical and its been awesome, so much better than my old 80/20 VDSL (that was actually 54/14)
Andrews and Arnolds might be able to help here but if there is a stop on the exchange they won’t be able to provision a copper line with voice; it would be copper BB (FTTC?) only with VoIOP on top (their prices arn’t bad tbh, so port the number over ?)
One of the few ISP that support having multi fttc/fttp lines including CityFibre.
Still got the VM connection (360/36), but that is used for rest of the house, my main rig is sat on this line on its own, means far more stable ping / connection for when I am playing games.
Honestly the headline speed, it was adictive, but for what ever reason the ping/latency just got horrid at times and the line felt like it was stuck in tar (despite speed test showing full speed…go figure)
I had one issue with this FTTC line, and after a reset its been sat at 75/20 for months now, its not cheap but it doesn’t seem to slow down at peak times and ping times have been very stable, and the fact i actually got to speak / chat to some one i nthe UK who didn’t fob me off for 45 mins; night and day
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I had CityFibre in Coventry, gigabit up and down for £35/month - it was great.
As above, avoid Virgin if you can.
Thanks, we put in an offer to rent in Woking, just waiting to see if we are accepted with no local references etc.
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Seems VM is the only option for now 
although I am still trying to figure out the options.
Virgin is a mixed bag. If you have there old coax network it’s garbage. However any new installation will be fiber to the premises which changes the game entirely.
Not had an issue with it at all. Seems snappy and responsive. The caveat is there router (super hub) is utter utter crap. So stick it in modem mode and use something decent
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Yeah, we got the 1gbps connection today. I bought the ASUS Zen WiFi AI XT9 mesh system. Stuck the VM device in modem mode and the internet went from 400mbps to 750. We have the coax from house to the curb then apparently it’s on to fiber to their network.
Not too bad so far
Fibre gone live in my area now so could be moving from this FTTC to a FTTP connection in new year, need to see how nice AAISP are going to be about the change.
750Mbps seems a little low for the VM 1Gbps connection, this over Wi-Fi or direct out the back of the mesh/router ?
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It’s over WiFi from my iPhone 14 Pro Max. Haven’t tested Ethernet yet
I would also like to say I love your country. The people, culture, architecture, all of it. Being English South African with a British father I was raised very British. In SA we have a very specific way of doing things and having lived in the Middle East for 5 years I have missed the western way of life. It was a journey for our children to experience different cultures but also a financial journey for our future.
I am very happy we moved here, in just a short month it already feels like home.
Popped a cable in and now getting 940 down, 100 up
We just got Openreach FTTP in our street and have the choice of the following, which would be best wrt service etc?
BT
TalkTalk
1310
Sky
Vodafone
Cuckoo
Giganet
the service generally tends to match each other - as they are basically reselling the line. I suppose there is the question on DNS service, but hey - you can set your own anyway.
I’d go for Giganet, if the same service speeds and price match from when I did a check.
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*** DANGER WILL ROBINSON ***
You appear to have BT on your list
Do not make eye contact, its vision is based on movement, back away slowly while it is chewing on somebody else.
I moved from Plusnet to BT, the verbal offer was good, the reality very much less than good.
moving to Zen
Cityfibre are chasing down BT customers at speed, they are now the third largest FTTP provider while BT is loosing customers by the thousand.
Have a look, up to 2.5Gbps if you are in the right place
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BT for me not much choice where i am 
Bit late maybe, but check out their claimed minimum speeds. When I got it for my house, TalkTalk’s 500 package had a higher minimum than Vodafone’s 900. Even if it is the same OpenReach line, maybe there is more contention further back?
We finally got full fiber with Toob. 900 up and down and a damn side better than Virgin. The bonus is Toob are giving it to me for free until my Virgin contract runs out.
Virgin 45 a month which will go up to 73 when the contract expires
Toob is 29 a month and may go up after the 2 year contract
All in all a good result