Posted by Ace Mccloud
As the title suggests....i need some serious help here
do i just pick a company and go?
i will need a decent connection with unlimited bandwith (heavy downloaders in my house - gotta keep up woth heros and prison break
) so i was thinking BT's unlimited package. I guess i need to rent a line from BT aswell, so its gonna be something like £34 a month? (24 broadband cost + 10 line rental?)
Anyone see anything i've missed? it comes with a router, the others will sort out cables or wireless or whatever.
EEK. it is scary moving out properly.
Posted by batesie
yeah good luck with moving out. bt's cheapest line rental is £10.99 a month.
then just add broadband. shop around, loads are giving away free wireless routers as you'll be getting into a 12 month contract....
try uswitch
http://www.uswitch.com/Broadband/Index.aspx
Posted by Ace Mccloud
ty mate,
looking at this page there is this bit at the bottom
***Price excludes monthly line rental
now as none of the prices have *** does this mean that that price includes the 10.99 line rental or whatever?
Posted by masseur
I went with that unlimited BT offer and it comes with a skype type phone too on which you get a local phone number.
Had no problems at all and although it comes preconfigured with SSID and WEP key you can get into the advanced settings and change these yourself, including making the SSID non broadcasting
I used to be with Demon until last October and they were good too. Just don't touch AOL. most providers have all the info you need to get you going easily and quickly.
Posted by Ace Mccloud
Masseur,
if you dont mind, could you tell me how much your paying a month?
cheers
ed
Posted by masseur
I just logged onto to BT to confirm but as its a quarterly bill I haven't had my first one yet but I'm sure its as you already mentioned.
I did get a discount for the first 6 months which seems to be the offer that is still going.
Posted by batesie
talk talk is offering the best deals at the moment....
Posted by masseur
but be aware that anyone I know who are with them say their customer service is the worst
see here for example
Posted by Ace Mccloud
my parents have talk talk at home, it sucks! it cuts out at 11.45 every night untill the morning and at peak times it goes at a snails pace. no good for xbox games or video streaming.
looks like i will have to get onto bt to activate a line.
Posted by jcwhite_uk
I presume the house that you are moving to already has a phone line. BT will charge to install a phone line is not already there or there is one insatlled by another company.
Talk to BT and see what they say.
Posted by themarques
ukonline if you can get it, they are really good. And there service has yet to let me down. Yes they are know owned by sky but they run a total different setup and have free 24 hour tech support right up to tier 3/4 support if its a big problem no waiting till the morning to sort it.
Also there contention ratio seems very good but obviously with sky broadband starting to pick up that might change in the future.
I would check a website called
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php
if you have a telephone number setup punch it in, alternatively if there old one is active use that.
Posted by A L 3 X
On 2007-08-28 15:39:16, batesie wrote:
talk talk is offering the best deals at the moment....
DO NOT! get talktalk...whatever you do...as ace said it cuts out all the time and is very slow at other times, dont go with talktalk it will be the worst thing you ever do
Posted by Dogmann
Hi Ace Mccloud
If you can get Virgin Media and as you say you are all going to be heavy down loaders cable broad band offers the best consistent speed as is not dependant on how far you are from the exchange or how many other users are online at the same time. Cable broadband is by far the best solution and will be for some time to come IMHO. Also at the moment they are really making some great offers as are pushing for growth and market penetration.
Marc
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