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Tesco Broadband - any good?
I'm on dial up with Tesco, paying £12.49pm. On top of this I pay BT £11pm for the phone line and about £1 pm on calls. I have a PAYG mobile on which I spend about £2pm. TOTAL: £26.49 per month on dial-up internet, landline phone and mobile. I am looking for broadband since I want to work from home. It's important to me to…
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AOl new summer prices
cheaper to have bundled package than stand alone http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/aol-launches-new-summer-prices-170608.html part of article AOL has reduced the cost of its bundled phone and broadband packages in a bid to boost summer sales (17-06-08). Under the new offer, bundled packages from the Carphone Warehouse…
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Can I leave my internet broadband contract early?
My contract with TalkTalk is still 7 months to go. However, I'm fed up with their service, and want to leave early. Do you think there will be another ISP who is willing to "buy back" your contract so that you can move to them? Does Sky offer this initiative? My sincere thanks,
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BT Line Reconnection After Using Another Provider ??
What I don't get, in this day and age, is how can BT get away with charging £125 to re-connect after you've been with, say, talktalk for a couple of years ?? My parents moved to talktalk for the all-in phone, line and broadband £20 a month package, and although they are past their 18 month minimum contract length, they are…
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Help! Wanted Cheap Broadband Package for Light User
Hi, i am look for a cheap broadband deal for my grandma? She is a light user, so download limits shouldnt be a problem, speed doesnt matter and it may be possible to incorporate her phone line into the deal if there is something possible there. She has no sky or virgin tv though. Thanks in advance
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AOL - £6.99 (did I hear irish accent right)
Just phoned up AOL to update billing info (can't do it online as don't use Aol software). Whilst there I asked if my speed was capped as only getting download speeds of less than 0.5 mb. I had previously asked online tech support who said their might be a fault on line and said I needed to phone to get it investigated. I…
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Tiscalli Questions
Hello, I am new to the forums and see lots of bad press about tiscalli broadband and phone. I was rather hoping to change over to them as I am currently paying BT £10.50 for line rental and £17.99 for a 5 GB capped broadband service (Going up to 10 in July). With the invention of BBC iPlayer and 4OD I find myself…
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Is the 02 wireless broadband any good?
Hi I am considering doing away with my sky package where I get free broadband and also getting my bt phone cut off. (trying to save money). Do you think the o2 wireless router would be ok to run 2 laptops? My son has also got a computer in his room that would need a 'dongle'! would one be provided or do i get a separete…
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BT Wholseale - sole supplier
I've checked samknows and found that BT wholesale are the sole supplier of BB to my local exchange (Ofcom classification Market 1). So I was wondering if I have any real options of who to use for broadband, ie who are the BT resellers as talktalk tiscali etc. are unavailable. Thx Chris
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Tiscalli...wht do u think of this deal?
Hi there, I had a phone call from tiscalli, i am already with them for broadband,they are now offering me broadband, phonecalls(unlimited phone calls, anywhere in the uk, for free) and also a freeview thing, and a wireless router. for £25pm. Wht do you guys think? Will i have any problems? i have been with them for over 6…
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bt one of charges
Hi, I canceled my BT phone and broadband package in April as I split with my partner and moved back in with my parents. I received a bill which i thought was my final bill about a fortnight later. Yesterday i received a further final bill stating I owed £370 in one of charges because i canceled my broadband service early.…
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Stick with BT+AOL or switch to Virgin Media?
We are moving at the end of this month and just found out that the old tenants in the place we're moving to disconnected from BT as they opted for cable. Now were under the impression that we'll be landed with a £125 reconnection charge......... Considering that we currently pay £10.50 pm for BT line and £9.99 pm to AOL…
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Help with changing ISP & phone provider pls
I am currently with Pipex Homecall on their 1mb Broadband + Anytime Calls for £24.99 p/m. I pay BT £10.50 for line rental. Total = £35.49 p/m I have had no problems at all in the past 3/4 years but realise I may not be getting the best value for money. I am thinking of going to O2 for their 8mb Broadband with free wireless…
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Pipex Yet Again.thought It Was Sorted
jOINED pipex NOV.2006. Set up direct debit and for some strange reason they never took any money from my account until I got an email demanding 15 months all at once. After several harrassed phone calls they admitted it was all there fault but wanted the money. I was advised to cancel direct debit and try and sort it out.…
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Sky Sports News
I am getting myself confused....which is easily done. :o I need advice. Been with Virgin for ages but were gutted when we lost Sky Sports News. We want to stay with Virgin, as I don't want the extreme hassle of changing my email address, been there before, worn the tee-shirt, never again! So we kept Virgin, phone, BB and…
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What Router To Use With Vista
really sorry if this has been posted before, im havin trouble trying to connect a laptop running vista on it to wireless on a netgear wgr614 router, my other laptop was running xp and connected fine,can someone help please.:confused:
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How bad is .5mbps braodband...
Hi All! .5mbps is the speed that we should get at the new house - currently getting 4144 on the test page of Broadbandspeedchecker - just how poor is that going to be, when on the internet? VB
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BT Total Broadband for £5 extra
This looks ok to me as I already have the Option 3 and for an extra £5 per month would get mobile broadband and a mobile phone which includes 50 calls and 50 texts per month which would be perfect for my son. I know the broadband deal at 24.99 per month is expensive but I am tied to it for another 12 months. Anyone got any…
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Virgin BB Free Router
Im posting this more as a thank you than anything else, so that if anyone else needs this, they can check it. After going through a couple of threads it became apparent that the main way to get Virgins attention is to threaten to leave. I have been with Virgin for 2 years now, only using their broadband package. I was told…
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OfCOM & Broadband Minimum Contracts
According to AOL customer retentions, if the monthly fee for broadband falls below £10 per month, OfCOM rules state that any contract is "unenforceable". I was uneasy about signing up to a 12 month contract (due to intermittent connection probs) which I presume is why he said we would be able to get out of it, without…
