Broadband News

Plusnet vs TalkTalk broadband comes down to price and contract flexibility more than raw speed, because both run over the same Openreach full-fibre network in most postcodes. Plusnet’s lower and mid-tier full-fibre examples tend to be cheaper on the monthly price, while TalkTalk sells only on longer 24-month contracts with no setup fee. Both are […]

BT Home Essentials broadband packages are discounted social tariffs for people receiving Universal Credit and certain other benefits, priced from around £15 a month for 16 Mbps up to around £25 a month for 67 Mbps (BT, August 2026). A social tariff is a cheaper broadband and phone package that a provider offers only to […]

Virgin Media broadband speed tiers are six cable packages named M125, M250, M350, M500, Gig1 and Gig2, with advertised average download speeds of 132Mbps, 264Mbps, 362Mbps, 516Mbps, 1,130Mbps and 2,000Mbps. For a household that games, streams in 4K and works from home across several devices at once, the download number is only half the story: […]

Local network vs ISP speed comes down to which of two bottlenecks is slower: the connection your broadband provider delivers to your home, or the wiring, router and Wi-Fi inside it. Your real-world speed is capped by whichever is worse, so a gigabit tariff can still feel slow if an old router or a weak […]

To improve broadband speed the fastest way is to run a speed test on your line, check whether it is below the speed your provider promised, and either force a fix under Ofcom’s rules or move to a faster full fibre package. For a heavy user gaming, streaming and working from home, real-world speed depends […]

TalkTalk Full Fibre 65 is a full fibre (FTTP) broadband plan with an average download speed of around 65 Mbps, priced from about £26 a month on a 24-month contract with no setup fee (TalkTalk, August 2026). It suits households that stream, video-call and browse across several devices at once, and TalkTalk says the line […]