Broadband. Who's the Cheapest? Article Discussion Area

jtownson

Hi All,

My year of £9.99 NTL broadband has just finished and the price has gone up to £17.99. I havent got a phoneline coming into the house, and I would prefer not to pay for connection / phone line. That only leaves NTL for my internet, so i am wondering if anyone else on the same deal i had have managed to haggle them down?

Thanks all

timbod

Hi Everyone.

I've just taken the plunge and signed up for broadband with Namesco who are offering free broadband (512K with 2GB usage) and a router for 12 months when you pay £60 connection.

For a light user like me it sounds like a pretty good deal.

Check out the article on ADSL Guide for more details (http://www.adslguide.org/newsarchive.asp?item=2752)

The direct link is www.names.co.uk



I'd appreciate people's feedback on the service they have had from Namesco - hope I've made a good decision!

Tim

pitza

Does anyone know the e
mail address of plusnet please. Thanks Pitza

Edinburghlass_2

jtownson wrote:

Hi All,

My year of £9.99 NTL broadband has just finished and the price has gone up to £17.99. I havent got a phoneline coming into the house, and I would prefer not to pay for connection / phone line. That only leaves NTL for my internet, so i am wondering if anyone else on the same deal i had have managed to haggle them down?

Thanks all

Have a read of this thread where people keep ringing to haggling their charges down

Nyquist

I'm with madasafish.com and couldn't be happier. really fast connection. thing is i get a terrible TV reception where i live and wanted to know if i can receive free view via my broadband. does anyone know?

Thanks

Jason_Lloyd

Nyquist

Not yet but Free to Air TV via your ISP is in the pipeline very soon. I believe that the BT Total Broadband IPTV service was trialled using Freeview so watch this space.

There are of course a number of websites dedicated to offering free TV streams from around world but the size and quality is pretty poor at the moment.

To get near-broadcast quality TV streams you need at least 4Mb speed. And to get the sort of quality and functionaliy of live TV you need about 8Mb speed. At present there are very few people in the UK with that kind of bandwidth - this doesn't even take into account things such as contention ratios or distance to exchange etc so as you can see we're all still some way away from getting telly through your broadband connection.

Cheers

Jason

Nyquist

cheers Jason

i've actually got 6mb speed. but i just had a thought - if i was streaming tv i guess it would eat up my 5meg download limit. so would have to think about moving providers anyway.

Kaz_Pike

I'm looking at getting wireless broadband for my new house, I'm a student and have looked through some of the posts here. I need it to supply 5 people. I was thinking, by looking at what people have said, to use madasafish...has anyone been using this and do you think it would be good for me to use?
I really don't have much clue about computer things, other than the basics, so please don't start with complex questions or answers! It scares me! haha

Thanks!

Edinburghlass_2

Welcome to MSE and the Telephone Board Kaz.

Best thread to read is the Madasafish Q & A thread and you'll find their CS rep there Samara who is very helpful regarding any questions you might have.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=174289

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The offer of free broadband is very tempting but BEWARE. I applied and duly received the modem and start up pack. Installing via the CD I applied for their own security package. This caused my computer to crash. On phoning the helpline I was told this was not the first time this had happened and somebody from technical would phone me in ten days!!! I then had to go to my local exppert to rectify the problem. I decided to return to my original ISP [BT] as I know i get good service from then. On trying to get a MAC code from Talktalk I was told it would take about a week. This was three weeks ago and I'm still waiting. I am sick and tired of sitting on hold on the phone for a minimum of twenty minutes every time so I have had to contact Ofcom to try and help. Incidently the call centre is based in India which isn't a lot of good as they have no idea of English problems andf how to solve them. My advice to anyone considering Talktalk is summed up in two words DON'T BOTHER