No landline - cheap broadband options please?

veryintrigued

Angry_Consumer wrote: »

I have just looked into alternatives to Virgin. May be wrong but to be honest I can't see you getting it any cheaper than £15.95 unless you go down the mobile route. The ADSL providers require you to take a Land Line phone account so you can add at least £10 (Line Rental) / month to any price they advertise.

That seems to be the agreement from the posts above. Will see if anyone thinks we have missed something less obvious

Thanks for replying though

ste_coxy

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/home-phone-calls <--- £6.79 per month for primus landline - I had no problems when with them. You could get this and then look for good deals for broadband on the likes of Uswitch or on here with cashback and be saving a hell a lot of trouble than trying mobile broadband - tempremental to say the least unless you have excellent coverage.

veryintrigued

ste_coxy wrote: »

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/home-phone-calls <--- £6.79 per month for primus landline - I had no problems when with them. You could get this and then look for good deals for broadband on the likes of Uswitch or on here with cashback and be saving a hell a lot of trouble than trying mobile broadband - tempremental to say the least unless you have excellent coverage.

Cheers for response. I'd still need to pay for a BT line reconnection though wouldnt I at > £100 i.e. negating any savings?

bod1467

As already said many times, your ONLY choices are via a BT landline, cable (VM) or a mobile dongle. If you're not staying with VM and a mobile dongle's not appropriate then you will HAVE to get a BT landline provisioned - no matter WHO is your eventual landline rental provider or ISP.

The only question then is who you go with for the landline. Check out the prices for Primus and also the Post Office. BE used to be £80 for landline provision (subject to a minimum 12 month contract) but I don't know if this has changed.

ShropshireAllycat

I'm in the same situation, want broadband but don't need a landline:
I currently have a 3 Mifi for £18 a month on a 2 year contract, this gives me 15gb a month and upto 5 computers can connect to it at a time, This is possible the best value for the amount of GB.
I've also lookied into landline & broadband packages and they come out roughly the same price but you get more GB.
Orange offer customers line rental & broadband for £17.75 a month with unlimited downloads, but i don't know how much they charge for a new line.
I spoke to Talk talk and they could the the same package: line rental, unlimited evening & weekend calls & 40gb downloads for £20 a month and they agreed to refund the £50 connection fee.
Sky do the same deal for a similar cost.
With some negotiation you can probably get free connection, but all these options are more than you're paying so unless you want unlimited broadband probably not worth it. I've not found anything cheaper

kattybunny

We are in a student house in the same situation, been looking for ages
Forgive my math if I'm wrong (it's late!)

The o2 all rounder package found on their website offers up to 20meg speed and unlimited downloads + line rental.

IF YOU ARE AN o2 CUSTOMER:
£20 a month but you get 3 month free so averages at £15pm - no connection fee
plus £101 cashback from topcashback
therefore costing £79 for the year.
(also 6 month free broadband instead of 3 if you've been with 02 for more than 2 years)

IF YOU'RE NOT AN o2 CUSTOMER:
£25 a month but you get 3 month free so averages at £18.75pm + £25.53 connection fee
plus £101 cashback from topcashback
therefore costing £177.53 for the year.


Like i said, forgive me if I'm missing something here, my heads spinning from all this searching. :doh:

Inigo_Montoya

I have 3 mobile broadband

I pay £10.99 per month for 15GB on a 1 month rolling contract

I got this deal by threatening to cancel my contract twice i.e. I started out paying £15.99 for 5GB

Personally I find the speed perfectly acceptable e.g. I can still stream vidoes like bbc iplayer - occasionally it can be a bit jerky

They do traffic shape during the afternoon & evening especially for downloading but after midnight the speed is not far off my old landline broadband

OldGreyFox

ste_coxy wrote: »

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/home-phone-calls <--- £6.79 per month for primus landline - I had no problems when with them. You could get this and then look for good deals for broadband on the likes of Uswitch or on here with cashback and be saving a hell a lot of trouble than trying mobile broadband - tempremental to say the least unless you have excellent coverage.

But see : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3371404

Mark_In_Hampshire

We have broadband without a landline, but we're not "normal" (?!) in that 3G broadband is four times faster than ADSL here. However while it does manage 6.6Mbps occasionally (5.4Mbps is normal) it won't compare with cable. Even my parents who have the most basic cable package get 10Mbps.

It costs £25 for each 7GB on PAYG. Contracts are available but 1. I don't permit direct debits, 2. The lengths are just silly - 24 months for the one we'd need and 3. We will have moved somewhere cabled (or Holland!) within the next 24 months.

Widows_Son

Get a dial-up modem from Amazon;

Get a dial-up account from BT Internet;

Get home phone from Primus for £6.80 / month;

Get a 18185.co.uk account;

Connect to the Internet using a dial-up modem using your BT credentials to 1470 18185 0121 478 9200 and leave it connected for 5p per unlimited Internet call.

You'll not watch many videos with a dial-up connection.