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OtinG · 02-09-2019, 11:53 AM

Wow, that is long time with one provider. Here in USA they tend to give us a price break for the first year or two then they start sticking it to us with huge price increases. Until just a few years ago it was difficult to get more than about 20Mbps speed in the suburbs of north Texas, but now 100+Mbps is the norm. With 20Mbps you cannot expect reliable streaming from services like Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, et cetera. I currently have 200Mbps download and 10Mbps upload via Spectrum, but it costs a whopping $75/month with taxes and fees. OUCH! That's rough on a retirement income! It's been a long time since the old dial up modem days and crappy services like AOL. Time Warner Cable's Road Runner service was the first high speed service I was able to get at home, and that was in the late 1990s. I worked with high tech firms and we always had high speed at work, so going home to dial up modem speed was terrible!

Good luck with the new service! I hope they price internet less expensively in the UK than we get saddled with in the USA.

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OtinG Old Gadget Guy Posts: 1,913 Karma: 6854865 Join Date: Jun 2018 Device: Oasis 3, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPad mini 6, iPad Air 2020, Alexa Devices	Wow, that is long time with one provider. Here in USA they tend to give us a price break for the first year or two then they start sticking it to us with huge price increases. Until just a few years ago it was difficult to get more than about 20Mbps speed in the suburbs of north Texas, but now 100+Mbps is the norm. With 20Mbps you cannot expect reliable streaming from services like Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, et cetera. I currently have 200Mbps download and 10Mbps upload via Spectrum, but it costs a whopping $75/month with taxes and fees. OUCH! That's rough on a retirement income! It's been a long time since the old dial up modem days and crappy services like AOL. Time Warner Cable's Road Runner service was the first high speed service I was able to get at home, and that was in the late 1990s. I worked with high tech firms and we always had high speed at work, so going home to dial up modem speed was terrible! Good luck with the new service! I hope they price internet less expensively in the UK than we get saddled with in the USA. Last edited by OtinG; 02-09-2019 at 11:55 AM.