Short term broadband

macman

I have to beg to differ. The average dongle user would be lucky to get a consistent 2Mbps, and huge areas of the UK have no 3G signal at all. Your area is blessed.

cinereus

But it's the same wherever I travel as long as it's slightly urban...

Hank_Marvin

do you keep your phone number if you want broadband?? I use a dongle but fancy getting BB but dont know if i'll loose my number if i do. I'm with BT but dont want BT BB. Want Virgin or something like that..

macman

Hank_Marvin wrote: »

do you keep your phone number if you want broadband?? I use a dongle but fancy getting BB but dont know if i'll loose my number if i do. I'm with BT but dont want BT BB. Want Virgin or something like that..

Your phone no. does not change, regardless of who you use for broadband and line rental. What gives you that idea?
You cannot have VM broadband on a BT line, it has to be a VM cable line.

Hank_Marvin

macman
Dunno why i thought number would change. Maybes because i have never had BB lol. I can get Vigin media in my area so i could get that then even if i have BT??

macman

That means that 70% of the country would have had a new number in the past few years.
Yes (if you mean Virgin cable, not Virgin National). But you'd then be effectively paying for two phone lines, if you keep the BT one.
Do an exchange search on https://www.samknows.com for your LLU options. This will show you the ADSL alternatives to VM cable.

lcfc

Hi,
Im moving into a house for 6 months and struggling to find decent bb, I looked at VM (they have unlimited DL and with 3 of us all having xboxes/ps3/ipads/ipones etc without having that we would struggle) and then paying the cancellation fee of £9 a month for the final 6 months. Is there any better way that isnt going to give me the run around?

cinereus

Look at the options I outlined in my first post - VM is quite a bit more expensive than the alternatives. I also looked at LLU options in this thread that seem more reasonable.