Blogathon 15/18

Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens…

Regular readers (Hello Mum!) might remember that Plusnet and I have been together for about 12 years, through six house-moves, and also branching out into a business I started up a few years ago.

And regular readers, again, might remember that I began to get unhappy with Plusnet’s service recently.

I mean, charging me for superfast broadband, whilst actually delivering mediocre broadband?

That’s just taking the pee.

Especially as I was paying through the nose for phone and broadband, because I was out of contract.

But who, in their tiny mind, is going to sign up for a year  (or 18 months or two years) of superfast broadband with a company that is only going to deliver mediocre broadband?

And pay superfast broadband fees?

Well, not me. Obv.

So I got on the dog and phone and asked Vodafone what they could do?

And they said ‘about 70 down and 15 up, and as you are a superloyal customer* we’ll do it for a supercheap price’.

*superloyal because my business mobile services have been with Vodafone for about ten years.

Well I said ‘yes’, obv.

On Saturday the new router was delivered.

Switchover day was Monday.

At 6am Monday I disconnected the old Openreach modem and the router.

And plugged in the Vodafone router to the mains and phone line and it worked straight away.

At that time bandwidth was about 45 down and 10 up, but all the advice from Vodafone was that I should give it a few days for things to settle down.

A week after the switchover, I’ve just run another speed test:

Yep, that’s good enough.

And for half the price I was paying Plusnet.