Now might be a good time to check your broadband speeds – and your last direct debit – to see just how much you are paying for broadband access. If it’s more than £25, then it seems you are definitely spending too much on those all-important download speeds. One of the UK’s smaller Internet Service Providers (ISPs) has just launched an incentive which shows that homes can pay less and still get blisteringly quick access to the web.

Community Fibre, which supplies large parts of London with Full Fibre cables, is currently offering rapid broadband for just £21 per month. That low price includes 600Mbps access, which is almost 10 times faster than the UK average. Pay a tiny bit more and things get even faster.

There’s 1Gbps for £23 per month and ludicrously speedy 2Gbps access for £25 per month. At that super quick rate you’d be able to download a full HD movie in a matter of seconds.

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Now, there is of course a catch. Community Fibre is only available in approximately 1.3 million homes and can’t be accessed nationwide.

However, there are plenty of other so-called alt-nets (alternative networks) that also offer fast downloads at lower prices, so make sure you do some research and shop around.

As a good example of the price difference. Sky will charge you £40 per month for 900Mbps speeds and BT wants £37.99. Community Fibre is only charging £25 for 2Gbps downloads that are more than double that 900Mbps rate.

Another alt-net called Toob is offering 900Mbps for £25, ISP Trooli wants £34.99 and Virgin Media has 1Gbps for £35.99 – which are all cheaper than BT and Sky.

One simple way to check what services are in your street is via Ofcom’s broadband checker.

All you need to do is visit the Ofcom page, type in your postcode, select your address, and you’ll get a list of Internet Service Providers available in your location.

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Switching should be pretty easy, and it’s definitely worth considering if you are fed up with paying high prices for speeds that aren’t up to scratch.

Just one final word of warning. It’s always a good idea to check what speeds you really need, as the faster the downloads, the more you will pay. As a guide, a couple who simply stream the odd bit of Netflix and browse the web should be fine with 70Mbps speeds. 

However, a big family who works from home, plays console titles, streams music and watches movies in 4K should consider boosting things to at least 300Mbps or more.