Broadband without phoneline

[chicane]

I'm sharing a flat and we're thinking about getting broadband. We don't currently have a phoneline. Has anyone been in this situation before? What did you go for?

I'm not sure whether to get a phoneline put in and have to pay line rental on it when it won't be getting used or do the same with cable.

Does anyone know of anyway of getting broadband at a reasonable price with no monthly download limit and without paying for services I don't need?! About £50-60 is the monthly limit.

[dlewis]

Alasdair

Cable BB is £37.99 from Telewest/Blueyonder without a phone line.

[agent006]

laptop and a 3g data card?

[kojak69]

Dont sky do it as well through the dish? I've heard its even faster.

[tonytoniTone]

you need some way of requesting data to download via the sat to download, like a telephone line..

[Pigeon]

Metronet ADSL does require a phone line, but at 10.49 per month for the phone line and between 11.75 and 28.19 per month for Metronet (depending on how much you use it), it will generally be cheaper. Connection fee is roughly the same I think. It has the further advantage that you can just buy an ADSL modem and plug it into the phone socket, you don't have to arse around being at home when someone calls to fit the cable connection. If you're not going to be using the phone you don't even need a microfilter.

[chicane]

how difficult will it be network 4 computers to one broadband line? will it make it run slower?

thanks for your replies.

[kinky]

You could find out if anyone VERY locally to you is running a wireless network.

Chances are that it's not secure, therefore you could use that (highly likely).

[LRdriver II]

chicane said:

how difficult will it be network 4 computers to one broadband line? will it make it run slower? thanks for your replies.

not a problem at all.. we have seen slow down in speed when uplaod from us, but otherwise run a full wireless network with 5 laptops and one PC (hardwired to router)

best thing since sliced bread.. streaming live porn when taking a dump

[Pigeon]

chicane said:

how difficult will it be network 4 computers to one broadband line? will it make it run slower?

Dead easy, broadband modem/routers typically have 4 ethernet ports so you just plug the 4 computers in. It will be slower if more than one computer is downloading at the same time but it's most unlikely to be a real problem.

LRdriver II said:

best thing since sliced bread.. streaming live porn when taking a dump

...as long as it doesn't give you a taste for coprophilia

[pmanson]

At uni we had a 1Mb NTL connection (Which you don't require a phone line for). We then had a wireless network running around the house.

No problems at all.

[FlossyThePig]

Pigeon said:

...as long as it doesn't give you a taste for coprophilia

OK you little lexicographer, how many other people know what that means?

Hugh

[Whoozit]

FlossyThePig said:

Pigeon said: ...as long as it doesn't give you a taste for coprophilia OK you little lexicographer, how many other people know what that means? Hugh

Me. I also know what cuprophilia means. Here's some other obscure words - callipygean - triskaidekaphobia - precession - phlebotomy - prognathous - -

Oh, on the original question; Yes, no problem with Telewest Blueyonder as mentioned already. I've had cable-only broadband for 2 or 3 years, the £37.99 quoted is the current price for a broadband-only 1.5 megabit connection. It's plugged into a fairly old SMC home router, which in turn shares it out to my main machine and a wireless access point. There are two other machines in use wirelessly and none of us really notice a difference if we're all indulging in general net browsing. If someone has PTP filesharing on, that can take up a large chunk of the upstream bandwidth and slow things down.

>> Edited by Whoozit on Wednesday 30th June 14:59

[simonrockman]

Whoozit said:

callipygean - triskaidekaphobia - precession - phlebotomy - prognathous

callipygean - cute bum
triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13
phlebotomy - something to do with kissing
prognathous - sticking out jaw


How about:

scurfy
infandous
mattold
ogdoad
nasute

?

[Whoozit]

You missed precession

OK, I don't know any of your words. Are they modern English, and non-technical terms? I'd hazard the following guesses

scurfy - dandruff-y
infandous - something to do with infants
mattold
ogdoad
nasute - bignosed

[chicane]

How easy are wireless networks to set up? Is the equipment expensive? Does anyone know if the !mb broadband from ntl has a download limit? I can't a limit on the website.