Broadband 9-10months?

Infidel

Hi.

Moving to a new house for 9-10 months and will be wanting to set up some kind of internet broadband to share amongst the house-mates. I've checked and the house is in a cabled (fibre optic) area.
So I was wondering if anyone can suggest a good broadband deal to go for. I would think that only broadband is needed and not all that phone and TV stuff that Virgin try and blag you to get.
Are there any decent alternatives to virgin cable? Or would that mean signing up to rent a phone-line too?
Also, as it's gonna be a student place we only need it for 9-10months, not the full 12 so was also wondering if any companies offer 'student contracts'.

Any help and advice greatly appreciated. Sorry that the September Summer hasn't yet materialised.

RevTheory

Virign its a 12month contact... there are no ISP which would give you a student contract.. the only 1 which would be useful is AOL Flexi... 30 day rolling contract

macman

There are quite a few ISP's who do 30 days contract, but obvously the price tends to be higher.
Be have recently launched a 9 month contract which I guess is targeted at students though? Basically it's the Be unlimited Option with a 3 or 9 month contract rather than 12.
https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/ourproducts

eldar_2

Try looking here for short term contracts.

Or try TitanADSL i used to be with them untill i moved into a area that had cable plus i was t far from the exchange to get descent speeds so cable it was for me.
All in all titan are great.

WelshBluebird

Apparantly Virgin Media will do 9 month contracts for students if you phone them up.

Though if you go with Virgin, go for the 12 month contract IMO.
£150 cashback from quidco.
Cancel the cantract when you have to leave.
The fee you'd have to pay to cancel early is capped at £120. So you'd be £30 up.

mk-donald

If you have got a BT phoneline for the period then signing up to o2 Premium home broadband on it right now via TopCashBack would be good value - even though you have to pay for 12months (potentially you could transfer elsewhere after 9m for free, otherwise just pay for 12 after using for 9). If any of you have an o2 mobile it'll be VERY cheap = net £13.11 for those 9-12months! If not it's less than £45 for the year!
See my cost comparison at
http://cid-99aa6cf1226facfe.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/o2%20Broadband%20-v-%20Be%20There%20Broadband