every little helps - cheap tesco broadband

[mdench]

£2.50 per month unlimited broadband deal set to spark price war - Mirror Online

Supermarket giant Tesco sparked a broadband price war yesterday by slashing the cost of unlimited use to £2.50 a month.

For a quid less than the price of its own brand Italian Pepperoni Pizza (335g) for £3.59, families can download as much material as they want for around 9p a day.

[nephilim]

What's the average speed??

[mdench]

How they compare

Provider Speed Downloads Contract Monthly Cost

Tesco 20Mb Unlimited 12 months £2.50

Virgin Media 10Mb Unlimited 18 months £4

Sky 20Mb Unlimited 12 months £5

Orange 20Mb Unlimited 12 months £5

Virgin Media 30Mb Unlimited 18 months £5

O2 20Mb Unlimited 12 months £6.25

TalkTalk 24Mb Unlimited 12 months £7.25

thats all they got on that article

[FN-GM]

I was on Tesco a few years ago and the connection and service was pretty good! But its only 2.50 for the first 12 months.

[mdench]

might have to look at changing over on the post office atm and well.....

[nephilim]

I'm on the £5 package from sky. Pretty decent, only 1 router restart in nearly 2 years.

[Arthur]

Is Tesco Broadband, unlimited or "unlimited".

[mdench]

Pretty decent, only 1 router restart in nearly 2 years.

got a zyxel one with our post office package it seems to have turned into a restart every 2 hours job atm just randomly drops its IP and wont connect to post office servers and constantly throws wireless devices off the connection

[nephilim]

Well lets break it down...

Broadband - £2.50

You must have line rental MUST be paid for which is a further £13.75 a month
You must also have telephone package with a minimum cost of £9 a month

So in reality - £25.25

Fair Usage Policy puts it at 100GB.


My sky package on the other hand

£5 broadband
£7 telephone AND line rental (admittedly I haggled)
Total cost for me £12

Fair usage policy - does not exist on my unlimited package!

[FN-GM]

Do you have Sky tv though?

Think yourself lucky, for 100GB download limit, cable broadband including home phone its $120 per month (81 pounds)

[Arthur]

So in reality - £25.25

I think I am going to wait until Tesco offer FREE* "Unlimited" broadband with £13.75 line rental and £11.50 telephone package. That is a far better deal!

All this amounts to free advertising for Tesco and little else?

[FN-GM]

All this amounts to free advertising for Tesco and little else?

Not sure Tesco need it!

[nephilim]

yes I do have Sky TV...infact I haggled on that and pay £49 a month for complete package (Sports, Movies, all 6 entertainment bundles) phone and broadband.