AOL - Free Router - No Contract - £5/month for the 1st 3 months

ProggerPete

I'm an Aussie who will be in London for the next 6 months. AOL's deal looks a good option.

No Contract
Free Router
Up to 8Mbps
10 Gig limit
£5/month for the 1st 3 months, then £15/month

Link: http://aolbroadband.co.uk/pages/infoPages/acquisition/selectorWireless.jsp?PageID=2&TalkPageID=&CopyA=Y

Looks pretty tasty, especially as I don't have my own router at the moment.

Figured I'd post here to let others know and find out if people think there are better offers out there.

Cheers,
Pete

Scrounger

ProggerPete wrote: »

I'm an Aussie who will be in London for the next 6 months.

Minimum 18-month contract and a 10GB/month download limit. :wall:

Doubt they would persue you to the other side of the world (for breach of contract) so you should be OK.

Scrounger

macman

And you'll need a BT landline on top of that, remember, £11.54 pm + any install cost.

mk-donald

I only know about o2 home broadband from recent personal experience, so I offer this as an idea with that caveat:

IF your accomodation has a BT LANDLINE and the phone exchange has the o2 Local Loop Unbundled kit at the exchange they offer o2 Premium - with upto 24Mbps down and 1.3Mbps up (depending on length/quality of that phoneline) with UNLIMITED usage and FREE support and with loaner wireless modem/router/WiFi/switch box - and you can get £50 £back website signup and £50 o2 mobile phone credit that means it would only cost around £60 for TWELVE months service (ie you could cancel it after 6m and "pay off" the rest of the year's commitment). The calculation is a BIT more complex than that and it ONLY works if you would USE the mobile phone credit but it COULD be an idea for you IF you have a landline valid for it.
See here on Hot UK Deals
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/626674/o2-broadband-join-now-and-get-50-of

ProggerPete

Oops, wrong link.

http://aolbroadband.co.uk/pages/productPages/acquisition/wirelessFlexi.jsp

£30 setup fee that I missed last time I looked.

10Gb limit doesn't throw me much, I don't download many movies.

ProggerPete

The O2 deal is an interesting one though. £70 for the internet over 12 months after quidco vs £90 for 6 months with AOL.

That's assuming there's nothing stopping me from having a PAYG O2 phone and never topping it up...

Coopdivi

So AOL is £150 a year on an 18 month contract which compares to Plusnet who charge £72 per year on a 12 month contract. Plus there's a no contract option.

http://www.plus.net/?home=hometop

Avoid AOL. In my experience they are absolute kak.

Go to a broadband comparison site and work out which will be the best deal for your circumstances.