Kloud9

01/09/2026

Quick one for the first day of September, while everyone is looking at their outgoings anyway.

Ofcom's latest report found that 28% of broadband customers are out of contract, and that those who are in contract pay £7 to £9 less per month on average than those who are not. The service is the same. The number on the bill is not.

It usually comes down to one of three things: the introductory price ended, the annual rise kicked in, or the end-of-contract letter went in the recycling with the pizza menus. We have written up all three, plus the four things worth checking this month. Link in the comments.

Be honest, do you know when your broadband contract ends?

28/08/2026

The last long weekend of the summer starts now. The paddling pool is coming down, the pencil cases are going into bags, and the broadband is the only member of the household working the bank holiday. Have a lovely one, from all of us at Kloud9.

26/08/2026

A quick game for tonight: everyone guesses how many connected devices are in the house, then you count. Mobile UK's researchers found almost nobody guesses high enough. The doorbell counts. So does the printer nobody trusts. Loser makes the tea.

24/08/2026

The schools go back next week, and the broadband is about to find out what it is made of. Homework portals, video calls from the kitchen table, and a games console downloading something enormous at teatime, all in the same few hours. We have written a guide to the September surge, including the three things worth checking before term starts.

Have a read:

When the schools go back, the whole house comes online at once. Nine connected devices, one evening peak, and three things to check before term starts.

21/08/2026

Somewhere in your street, right now, a phone is scanning for networks and finding a neighbour's finest work. The Wi-Fi name is the last great anonymous art form: nobody knows who wrote it, everyone within thirty metres is the audience, and some of you have been carrying a masterpiece for years.

So, confession time. What's your Wi-Fi called? And more importantly, what's the best one you've ever spotted on the list while visiting someone? Full marks for puns, extra credit for anything that's clearly a message to a specific neighbour.

20/08/2026

The kitchens of the UK host their second results morning in a week, and this time it's the GCSE envelopes doing the trembling.

To the students: well done for getting here at all. To the parents on their second consecutive Thursday of pretending to be calm: veterans now, the lot of you. Whatever the envelopes hold, there's a route forward from every single combination of letters and numbers, and the kettle works either way.

Who's collecting results in your house this morning? Send them our best.

19/08/2026

We are hiring a Fibre Engineer to work out of Birchwood, Warrington, with travel across the UK.

The day to day is customer installations, fusion splicing on new build and live networks, MDU builds and Openreach PIA work, plus fault finding alongside our technical team. There is a lot of rural build coming as we connect more villages, and our business customer base is growing too.

On top of what you can see above, there is 28 days holiday, full tooling and PPE, a pension, a laptop and phone, and structured training with a proper progression plan behind it.

We do need proven splicing experience, Openreach PIA experience, OTDR competence and a full UK driving licence. You must be UK based as we do not offer sponsorship, and we are not working with agencies on this one.

Message us and we will take it from there.

17/08/2026

Quick quiz: how much of your broadband speed do you reckon your house actually uses on a busy evening? Two streams going, someone on a call, someone gaming, music in the kitchen, every phone twitching away.

The answer surprises most people: about 50 Mbps, all in. The everyday internet sips rather than gulps, and most of what gets blamed on speed is really the connection wobbling under load or the Wi-Fi giving up at the back bedroom.

We've written the honest guide: what things really use, when gigabit is genuinely worth it, and when it honestly isn't. And yes, we're aware we're an internet company saying that:

What streaming, calls and gaming actually use, when gigabit earns its keep and when it doesn't. The honest speed guide from Kloud9's full-fibre team.

14/08/2026

There's a great British tradition of taking the single most important piece of technology in the house and hiding it somewhere the Wi-Fi goes to die.

Behind the telly. Inside the cabinet with the board games. On the floor behind the sofa, wearing a light coat of dust. We've seen one balanced on a radiator, which is impressively wrong in two different ways at once.

Your router works best out in the open, up off the floor, and away from big metal objects and fish tanks.

Yes, fish tanks: water soaks up Wi-Fi like nothing else.

13/08/2026

Somewhere near you this morning, a teenager is pretending to be calm, and a parent is doing a much worse job of it.

It's A-level results day. Kettles are on, envelopes are being opened, and kitchens across the country are hosting either celebrations or very important regrouping conversations. Both are fine. Both lead somewhere.

To the students: well done for getting through it, whichever way this morning went. To the parents: you're allowed to exhale now. Tell us who you're proud of today, results optional.