{"id":12562,"date":"2018-06-15T19:35:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12562"},"modified":"2018-06-15T19:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T18:41:41","slug":"blogathon-15-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12562","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 15\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And regular readers, again, might remember that I began to get unhappy with Plusnet’s service<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n

I mean, charging me for superfast broadband, whilst actually delivering mediocre broadband?<\/p>\n

That’s just taking the pee.<\/p>\n

Especially as I was paying through the nose for phone and broadband, because I was out of contract.<\/p>\n

But who, in their tiny mind, is going to sign up for a year \u00a0(or 18 months or two years) of superfast broadband with a company that is only going to deliver mediocre broadband?<\/p>\n

And pay superfast broadband fees?<\/p>\n

Well, not me. Obv.<\/p>\n

So I got on the dog and phone and asked Vodafone what they could do?<\/p>\n

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

*superloyal because my business mobile services have been with Vodafone for about ten years.<\/p>\n

Well I said ‘yes’, obv.<\/p>\n

On Saturday the new router was delivered.<\/p>\n

Switchover day was Monday.<\/p>\n

At 6am Monday I disconnected the old Openreach modem and the router.<\/p>\n

And plugged in the Vodafone router to the mains and phone line and it worked straight away.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A week after the switchover, I’ve just run another speed test:<\/p>\n

\"Vodafone
Vodafone broadband speedtest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yep, that’s good enough.<\/p>\n

And for half the price I was paying Plusnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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