Broadband without land line?

rfowler

Can you have braodband at home without having a land line

brightonman123

i am using an orange dongle on my home pc, though on a contract that ends up quite expensive if more than a moderate user..

kwikbreaks

Plus...

Cable if you can get it

Satellite or leased line if you can afford them.

PlutoinCapricorn

I cancelled my landline a while back, after using a prepaid 3 Network dongle. I have never looked back.

3gb of data costs me around £7 now, and lasts for around 2 months. I am happy with the speed, but I do not download films, play games or music.

rfowler

Am with Virgin at the moment and pay around £26 a month for phone line and broadband

penrhyn

Is that for cable or ADSL?

macman

Wireless broadband is rarely an adequate substiute for ADSL broadband, unles you cannot get ADSL, or are on the limit as far as distance from the exchange is concerned.
Sometimes it's just about OK, sometime you may get nothing at all, it all depends on location and network.

loopy_lass

call me thick but i think i want the same, i need to check my emails on my iphone, and thats about it really so begrudge paying land line rental and broadband at total of 30 a month just to do this, i was offered a good deal from talk talk but they seem to have a bad reputation so unsure how to go with this for the best.

loops

Snakeeyes21

macman wrote: »

Wireless broadband is rarely an adequate substiute for ADSL broadband, unles you cannot get ADSL, or are on the limit as far as distance from the exchange is concerned.
Sometimes it's just about OK, sometime you may get nothing at all, it all depends on location and network.

I get 5mbs on my mi-fi, faster than a good proportion of landline users get

ACDeag

rfowler wrote: »

Can you have broadband at home without having a land line

Depends where you live, in remoter areas probably no, as there will be no cable and 3G signals are likely to be weaker or non-existent.

Mark_In_Hampshire

ACDeag wrote: »

Depends where you live, in remoter areas probably no, as there will be no cable and 3G signals are likely to be weaker or non-existent.

That's what I'd have thought. We live 4 miles from the nearest town. It's not really in the middle of nowhere, it's between the commuter towns of Farnham and Alton.

The 3G mast (Three) is 2.8km away, just near the phone exchange and we still get 3Meg of the 3.6Meg available.

The saviour of the speed - where a cell does exist that you can connect to reliably - is that in a rural area I doubt many people use it which is why we get most of the speed available.

It's hardly a long term solution. That involves moving back somewhere urban into a cabled area. And it's really slow. But it is the quickest speed we can get here, and no line rental charges.