Home broadband deals in Chester
There’s a good selection of home broadband services on offer in central Chester.
ADSL is available with average speeds of 10-11Mb, and you can get the best broadband deals from providers such as Sky and TalkTalk.
The area is also enabled for fibre optic broadband using the Openreach and CityFibre networks. This provides download speeds up to around 65Mb, and is on offer by many internet service providers.
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What is Openreach?
Openreach is the company that maintains the former British Telecom Network used for the majority of broadband and phone services. If a repair or installation is required, it’s Openreach who will send an engineer, not your provider.
More than 650 service providers using the Openreach network. That’s the majority of the UK’s broadband providers. This includes Sky, TalkTalk and BT. The exception to this is Virgin Media - it uses its own, separate cable network.
This is currently the fastest unlimited home broadband connection available, as sadly, Virgin Media broadband isn't available in Chester.
Other exchanges around Chester have more limited availability. The Christleton exchange has fibre optic internet, but only through TalkTalk.
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Comparing mobile broadband in Chester
Coverage across all four network operators — O2, Vodafone, EE, and Three — is very good in Chester. Central areas are blanketed by 4G signal, and it extends to outlying areas including Blacon, Upton, Guilden Sutton, Christleton and Eccleston. As this is a populated part of the country, coverage is plentiful in most directions, with the only major drop in connectivity occurring in western areas toward North Wales.
The latest 5G technology is also available through EE and Three Mobile, though coverage of this new service is limited.
For more about network coverage, please read our comprehensive guide.
You can also make use of the official network coverage tools by clicking the logos below:
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Where we get our information
We strive to keep our local broadband information as up-to-date as possible. This means using trustworthy sources with regular checks. The information on this page comes from the following:
- Local broadband speed information: labs.thinkbroadband.com/local
- Mobile broadband coverage (1): nperf.com
- Mobile broadband coverage (2): checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/mobile-coverage