BT Infinity - BT Line

amk515

Hi all,

Quick question. I have been looking at BT Infinity for a while and was wondering, do you have to pay line rental to BT or can you use another provider as long as it is a BT line?

Regards
Andy

Mark_In_Hampshire

Believe you have to have line rental with BT to have BT Infinity.

If you went with another supplier for the FTTC service (Infinity is just BT's brand name for it) then you might be able to have different ISP and line rental provider.

HappyMJ

BT Infinity are not the only supplier of high speed fibre broadband. Plusnet for example will supply a line and broadband over the FTTC network using BT's wholesale product.

macman

FTTC is increasingly available from ISP's reselling BT's wholesale product.
If you want Infinity, you must pay line rental to BT.

amk515

Thanks for the quick replies. The only reason I looked at BT is the unlimited usage. Plusnet have a monthly usage and I dont know how much data I use.

macman

Infinity is only unlimited on the most expensive package. The cheaper option has a ludicrous 40GB cap.
Suggest you measure your data usage for a month before you decide-loads of free software enables you to do that.

amk515

macman wrote: »

Infinity is only unlimited on the most expensive package. The cheaper option has a ludicrous 40GB cap.
Suggest you measure your data usage for a month before you decide-loads of free software enables you to do that.

Do you happen to know of any for OS X Lion??

The only other problem I have is judging the amount of data my gaming uses as I can clock up some time on Xbox Live.

macman

Google Surplusmeter. No doubt there are others.

amk515

Another reason why I asked about the line rental with BT is due to an article on www.chooseisp.co.uk which states the following:

Add calls

To get BT Infinity you'll need to have a working phone line.
Get one of the plain BT infinity packages and that phone line can be with whoever you like. Take a '+ calls' deals and you'll get a small discount for sticking with BT for both services.
How small? Well, £2 a month compared with getting the same BT line rental and calls deal separately.
Every little helps but it's not much which, we assume, is why BT have knocked some cash off for the first 3 months too.

Any idea if this is true??

joe134

macman wrote: »

Google Surplusmeter. No doubt there are others.

Hi Macman, can I intrude and ask what,s best for Vista?

spud17

joe134 wrote: »

Hi Macman, can I intrude and ask what,s best for Vista?

I'm sure he won't mind, but Networx is now probably the best for the various Windows systems.