Hi!
Which contract would you recommend? The following are the options available to me, based on the average monthly price for a two year contract.
Vodafone 1000 Mbps (Cable + TV) - 50 €/m
Vodafone 250 Mbps (Cable + TV) - 43 €/m
O2 600 Mbps Cable - 40 €/m
1&1 250 Mbps DSL - 35 €/m
Drillisch 250 Mbps DSL 29,99€ per month
Dont get Cable. It sucks big time during peak hours.
This used to be true for cable but isn't anymore since maybe 2018 in Berlin (when Vodafone finished rolling out optical fiber to the street boxes). On the other hand, DSL usually works very nicely as well, and if you get a good enough line (read: not too long and not too shitty) to get the full 250 Mbps then it's definitely good enough.
EDIT: Whatever you choose, don't use the router from the provider if it's not a FritzBox, they're all pure garbage. You have the freedom to buy your own if you don't want to rent one, Kleinanzeigen is full of them.
Some relatives of me still have the issue with internet slowdowns during peak hours. Their ISP is also Vodafone, so there seems to be more to it.
I currently have cable and it works fine 🤷♂️
Had vodafone cable and o2cable at the same location, o2 was much better. In General my experience as a heavy user who did breitbandmessung regularly using Vodafone cable : Most of the time the speed was at 65-75% of the topspeed (1000mbit)
Now I have pyur (cable) and my experience is better, especially as it is much cheaper than vodafone, and (not measured) more powerful.
Used the same fritzbox cable 6660 with all isps.
When I say Drillisch I mean winsim or sim(dot)de for example
If you need it for home office and video conferences definitely go for DSL. Cable was good for us since 2021 for 2 years, then heavily degraded and became unreliable with several issues per week. DSL has been very stable and more than enough bandwidth. Until they burned down a big cable and it was gone for 3 days.
For now Cable 250 was ok. I am now starting to consider DSL 100 Mbps for the sake of price 🤔
Choose cable only if you live in a house and an area with many old people. Then it's awesome.
Ask your neighbours what is more stable. Connection depends from building to building here.
If you do not want TV then do not take a plan with it.
If only internet is needed I would chose like this:
250 Mbps enough then 1&1 Else O2 with 600 Mbps.
I had O2 dsl which worked fine in terms of bandwidth and ping, but struggled with certain 4K streams. Moved to Vodafone 500mbit cable that eventually worked better but had some little issues and moved 1gbit and I love it, specially when downloading big files and never had an issue with streaming. Some say there is bottleneck congestion at some times but never experienced it. When I had choppy video calls, it ended up being my mesh network. Vodafone gigabit ended up being more cheaper than 500mbit as I was over my 2 year contract and I told their support I wanted to move to Telekom fiber cable. Expensive but… fiber. But with the counter offer of Gigabit cable for 34€, I was more than happy.
For now Cable 250 was ok. I am now starting to consider DSL 100 Mbps for the sake of price 🤔 The only streaming problems I had was trying to watch 4K Youtube on a 30 Mbps connection. 1080p was fine.
Vodafone service has been largely fine (outage last week for some hours) but setup was a goddamn headache.
If you go with them get their hardware from them. They make it easy to connect if you rent from them, and terrible if you get your own equipment. I bought outside of Vodafone and it took me 50 days to get activated. I’m sure you can see the saga in my posting history here on Reddit.
I use Pyur 250 cable and I am quite satisfied with it. I’ve been using it for the past 2 years and maybe once I had an internet issue for a few minutes. Previously I was on Telekom DSL and it was the worst had lots of issues like slow speeds, buffering on 720p, Teams calls dropping.
Look at the upstream as well, this will give you the answer (hint: the cheapest).