I’m newly registered so my question may have been dealt with before and I’d be glad of any opinions.
I’ve lived at my current address for 4+ years and at my previous address in another part of Birmingham for 34 years. I’ve been a Virgin/NTL/Telewest customer for over 20 years. At this new address Virgin internet was already installed so as I had been a customer previously I just carried on. It works on the whole. BUT, like many, I am absolutely fed up with paying almost £700 a year while new customers pay less than half that. Every time they raise their price I argue and sometimes I succeed in knocking a little off but now I really want to dump them. Problem. There’s no fttc at my address and Openreach decline to say when they might bestir themselves. Houses less than 100 metres from us have fttc but all queries about our house, which is on an ordinary residential road, are met with “No plans”. Translation: “Go away and stop bothering us.” They can offer a community partnership costing thousands while simultaneously spending hundreds of thousands on trumpeting their expansion of fibre to remote villages yet ignore an address 1.5 miles from the centre of Britain’s second largest conurbation. Fume, fume. Despite this dismal state of affairs I am going to do a trial switch back to ADSL internet. It may drive me mad or it may be fine. My needs are not really so great: regular daily browsing, streaming such as iPlayer, Netflix etc., Skype and Zoom, no gaming. Will I seriously regret this? Av. speeds supposedly about 8MB but could drop to 2MB. As I say, opinions welcome.