AOL Broadband offers (merged threads)

Edinburghlass_2

Have you looked into getting AOL broadband as it seems the easiest solution as you want to keep your email address and want a wireless router?

http://info.aol.co.uk/broadband/broadband-silver.adp?promo=228937&promoCode=228937

This offer does say new AOL customers only and they may say you are an existing customer but as you can read in this thread existing customers are getting good offers from AOL as they want to keep their customers.

I would sort out your broadband wishes before you get into worrying about using your laptop when out of the house

Quentin

travel_freak wrote:

I saw someone in this post talking about a "migration code" - can someone tell me what this is

Hello Mr Pig

A migration code (MAC) won't come in to your scene.

They are used when you change broadband providers, and let you remain connected whilst the switch over is going through.

As you are on dial up you will be able to stay connected (via your usual dialup method) until your broadband is established.

If you are happy with AOL, you may want to stay with them for their broadband service, though their recent takeover by talk talk has got some of their customers concerned (in view of the problems talk talk have had with their own bb). You may get the £9.99 deal talked about a lot in this thread for aol silver service which would be a saving.

volks400

Hello all,

i have been with aol for a few months now on no contract and paying 14.99 (unlimited and very happy) which will go up to 17.99. what i need to know is do i qualify to haggle with aol to get me down to 9.99. if i do which number should i call and what to ask for ?

thanks in advance

espresso

Click on the Search this Thread at the top and enter 0800 to see the numbers that others have used.

volks400

ok i have found the number. now can some one tell me if i can haggle with them for 9.99 unlimited without contract. as i said bfr im on no contract at the moment paying 14.99

espresso

Well others have, so why don't you try!

dsmann

well i tried again for 9.99 with wireless router but they said no way..
when i told them them that other ppl have got this offer.. the guy gave me the a funny excuse saying they might have been offered such a deal because they dont come under AOL coverage area and as you come under AOL coverage area i cant offer you this deal..

I had a good laugh and told him how could he expect me to believe the excuse he gave.. since when can a company offer better deals to customers who dont fall under their coverage area )

i have decided to go for sky now.. i hope i am one of the few ppl who didnt have problems with migration to sky.

AOL have sent the MAC code straight away so now going to call sky to place order for their MID package...

travel_freak

Thanks Quentin,

Could I just ask a(nother) stupid question: I know you said I'd still be able to use my dial up until the broadband is established, would I still be able to use dial up after getting broadband? I'm just thinking if there were ever problems with my broadband connection for any reason I wouldn't want to be left stranded as I use email/internet for my work too? Is it the case that once you've switched you've switched and can't go back to dial-up?

Also thanks to Espresso - I've looked at the offer and see it includes a free McAfee personal firewall, plus anti spam stuff. Would people say that is all you need to protect yourself or should you also go and buy the boxed protection products at PC World for example (a firewall and an anti-virus - or can you buy these together?) - any recommendations on this at all?

At the moment with AOL dial up I use a freephone number to connect so there are no telephone charges - would this be the same with broadband?

Many thanks.

Regards,

Quentin

Hello Mr Pig

You can keep a dial up ISP for back up should there be any problem with the broadband line. You can have both on your system (but obviously only be connected to one or the other at a time).

You could sign up for a payg dial up ISP as hopefully you will only need it rarely, so there's no need to pay a monthly sub. Many of the BB isps have their own back up dial up service which you can set up in your network connections for use if needed, paying only for the phone call when you need to connect to the dial up service.

With broadband you will have no telephone charges to pay at all - your phone line will be freed up and can be used to make and receive phone calls at the same time you are connected to broadband. You pay for your broadband via the monthly subscription. Some ISPs have a cap on the amount of up and downloads you do, and charge extra if you exceed your cap limit.

Hope this answers the queries.

Red_Dave

Although there wasn't too much response to my original message(!), it seems that the absolute rock bottom deal would be:

Order over the phone and not on-line.
Badger for £9.99/month with first month free on silver. No modem required since migrating (and hence only 1 month contract).
Push for £25 each refer a friend bonus (although this officially ended yesterday).
Call in the morning to get through to the Irish call center where you're more likely to get the deal.

This would work out at £7.08/month over 12 months (just for comparison, it'd be a monthly contract).

Just to clarify, I'm after the cheapest non-LLU and non-capped (or not very low cap) broadband service. Can suffer slow (1Mb, or even 512K) speed. Need flexibility to move out at no cost (since market is very competitive).

If anyone's got anything to add that'd be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Dave.