what telephone/ internet package do you have?

glasgowstudent

Hello,

ive moved in with mrs gs and have been given the job of sorting out internet/ telephone. we live in a village without cable, so any sort of fibre option is out. There seems so many options out there i wonder what the wise memebers of the forum have at home.

i just need internet really, mrs gs wants calls, so i guess some sort of free package would be good, but BTs seems to have gotten very expensive

Just phoned Orange: Orange advertise Broadband & Off Peak weekend calls £5 + 12.75 line rental. but because i'm not an orange phone customer I have to pay a penalty of £5, (even though my girlfriend has a t-mobile phone & they are part of the same compnay) fair enough, also they say "because I'm not in an orange area I have to pay BT a line rental of £10 to use their line".
- advertised at £17.75 a month actual price £32.75

macman

Do an exchange search on https://www.samknows.com for your LLU options.

glasgowstudent

macman wrote: »

Do an exchange search on samknows for your LLU options.

great website thanks, i'm very close to an exchange that i didnt know exsisted, sadly my connection speed is still awful <2mb :mad:

that website also is offering Orange deals cheap, but even though I put in my postcode it's the same problem as before with all this "non Orange area" nonsense

bobweston

Hi there,

A recent Which? report for BB providers advised people steer away from Orange.

They rated Bethere, Zen, Eclipse, BeGreen, O2 and Plusnet very highly. Plusnet appear to be the cheapest (at around the £7 / month mark).

I know Bethere/O2 have LLU enabled on some/most BT Exchanges. This may help to give better value for money and connection reliability/speeds. Think the samknows site should highlight which exchanges have these ISPs using LLU.

mardatha

I'm on a very old very rural exchange and I have Plusnet, they are brilliant. BB is £6.49 a month and the phone bills are around £24 month.

penrhyn

Sky have a 6 month free broadband offer on atm, only look at it if Sky/Easynet are on your exchange LLU list. You don't need to have Sky TV to get it.

http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/broadband-options/broadband-only/

bobweston

Looks like the link for LLU enabled exchanges is here:
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/llu/be

Mark_In_Hampshire

We live in a rural area, not that has anything to do with it since our line is only 3.6km long, but is terrible quality and can't do broadband (it can do 1.7Mbps which I don't regard as broadband)

We use Three 3G and consistently get 6Mbps down 1.5Mbps up. It's actually capable of 11Mbps down to this address, but our current router can't do the higher speeds.