Broadband Package - What's best?
Discussion
Currently I have BT Broadband (£25ish a month) and BT Friends and Family that gives free evening and weekend calls(up to 1 hour each) for which I pay £XX (can't remember exactly) but my quarterly bill comes to about £140 all in.
My question is, surely there must be cheaper alternatives? Broadband is 512kps and unlimited use. Don't mind if we have to have seperate suppliers and I only have to give BT a month's notice.
No cable available in my area (EX15 postcode).
Help from the PH massif would be well wikkid.
Rich
My question is, surely there must be cheaper alternatives? Broadband is 512kps and unlimited use. Don't mind if we have to have seperate suppliers and I only have to give BT a month's notice.
No cable available in my area (EX15 postcode).
Help from the PH massif would be well wikkid.
Rich
www.ispreview.co.uk has a list of broadband suppliers.
I went through them a while ago and ended up choosing Pipex 512, £24p.m.
I went through them a while ago and ended up choosing Pipex 512, £24p.m.
KITT said:
If you don't do loads of downloads then Metronet are hard to beat. My average bill is about £17 a month for 512k Broadband. Even if I go nuts and download hundreds of mp3 etc then it won't go above £30
I use these too. 1Mb link for a max of £23ish. starts at about £11ish for the first 200Mb downloads.
I've been very impressed with Virgin - easy enough to sign up, good bandwidth pretty much all the time (on 512k link), and only £18pcm for up to 3GB per month.
Plus the helpdesk:-
a) are actually helpful, unlike cust'r services, who aren't
b) phone you back if the call is likely to take > 10mins (they really do)
c) only charges 25p/min.
Plus the helpdesk:-
a) are actually helpful, unlike cust'r services, who aren't
b) phone you back if the call is likely to take > 10mins (they really do)
c) only charges 25p/min.
Have a look at Talk Talk (Carphone Warehouse).
I'm not with them (I'm with BT at the mo), but they offer a 512k ADSL and phone package for £19 a month I think - www.talktalk.co.uk
I'm considering going with them. My neighbour has, and has not had any problems with them at all.
K
I'm not with them (I'm with BT at the mo), but they offer a 512k ADSL and phone package for £19 a month I think - www.talktalk.co.uk
I'm considering going with them. My neighbour has, and has not had any problems with them at all.
K
I've found the cheapest way to do this is:
BT phone line, absolute minimum line rental @ £11.50 per month or so.
512Kb broadband from someone like F2S (chosen for speed, reliability and customer service ratings from ADSL guide) for around £20 per month
Use Call 18866 for phone calls - all national calls 1p connection fee, 0p/min and their international call costs are very low too, although not as low as their sister company Call 1899 who also do 0p/min national calls, but with a 3p connection charge. Of course as both of these are prefix providers, there's nothing to stop you signing up to both and using the cheaper for each call, especially as there's no monthly fee.
BT phone line, absolute minimum line rental @ £11.50 per month or so.
512Kb broadband from someone like F2S (chosen for speed, reliability and customer service ratings from ADSL guide) for around £20 per month
Use Call 18866 for phone calls - all national calls 1p connection fee, 0p/min and their international call costs are very low too, although not as low as their sister company Call 1899 who also do 0p/min national calls, but with a 3p connection charge. Of course as both of these are prefix providers, there's nothing to stop you signing up to both and using the cheaper for each call, especially as there's no monthly fee.
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