BT Broadband questions or suggestions

ianandjody

Good Morning,

I am currently on dial up and NTL phone package. I have been with NTL 3 years and last year they gave me great deal on my phone at £5 per month for the 5 p per hour calls, but this has recently gone back up to £11 per month. We also seem to spend around £12 per month on dial up connection.

I am looking ot change my phone and potentially get broadband as well, so am after suggestions. If i managed to get broadband, i would also be interested in adding a wireless system to the house for my laptop and being lazy!

I wanted to pick all of your knowledgable brains on broadband. I have been looking at the New BT options and wanted to know what any onf your thoughts were on it? They seem wuite attractive with all of the options on the wireless hub and phone sytem and also the free 250 minutes of WIFI access a month!


Dows it work out to be such a good deal as it looks and is it worth going for the option 3 for the home hub phone, for the free calls eve and weekend, if you are already paying for this on the normal phone line?

Or is there a better system that may offer what i want or think I want or don't even need?!

Any thoughts or suggestions would be great.

Thanks

Edinburghlass_2

First of all I would ring NTL and tell them you are thinking about leaving to get bb elsewhere and see what they will offer to keep you, have a read of the threads where NTL customers have battered down the costs with great success.

As regards the BT offer, I, personally, wouldn't be too taken in with the "wireless hub" offers as the price of wireless routers/modems etc is way down now and you can buy your own equipment for use with any ISP.

Having said that I haven't studied the BT offer in great detail

edited to add, would you actually use the 250 minutes of WIFI a month? Its that sort of thing you really need to think about about when mulling over "offers"

ms4

Personally, i don't like the 18 / 12 month contract on the BT packages. There will be more competitive packages around in that time.

Personally, if you are not in a rush to move, I would wait a few weeks as Sky will be bringing out a new broadband package this month.

Pipex have just launched a new advertising campaign (apparently featuring David Hasselholf!) for a broadband and phone package that beats Talk Talk's offer. [Correction] Following a comment in another post it appears that the offer is not cheaper than Talk Talk as it does not include telephone line rental.

I would expect further offers as the major ISPs will not be able to compete and now many people are starting to jump on the Broadband / phone combination wagon.

BT's offers: Those free WiFi minutes apply once. So you only get 250 free WiFi minutes once i'm afraid!

Cheers

Manoj

littleboo

Don't think the 250 WiFi minutes are a "one off", you have get per month for either 12 or 18 months, this is from the BT web site :-

"250 minutes provided each month for 18 months with Option 1 and 12 months with Option 2 and 3."