Broadband only deal, please help

gabitzul

Hi all,

I have just moved to a new location and I am already tied to BT (already paid the Line Rental Saver for 12 months in July and also took an 18 month contract for the tel line with them when I moved so that I get cheap line set up (£40 instead of £125 ish).

This unfortunately means that I need a broadband only deal. This is what SamKnows says about my local exchange:


Summary of results at 21:08 20/09/2012
Congratulations, you are in a broadband enabled area.

The following services are available in your location:

• BT Wholesale ADSL
• BT Wholesale ADSL Max
• BT Wholesale WBC (21CN)
• BT Wholesale SDSL
• BT FTTC
• AOL LLU
• O2 / Be LLU
• Bulldog LLU
• TalkTalk (CPW) LLU
• Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU
• Newnet LLU
• Tiscali LLU
• Tiscali TV (via Tiscali LLU)
• Virgin Media (Cable)
• Now Wireless

I am connected to Reading Central.

I need a wireless router as well ideally and use about 40GB a month overall.

I used to be with O2 at the old address and were perfect, however they told me there is no capacity at the new exchange and had to cancel the contract.

Which provider would you recommend?

Thanks in advance.

bod1467

What are your requirements? O2/BE are your only LLU options for broadband only, but if O2 has no capacity then I doubt BE will either. Anyone else will be BT or a reseller of BT. (I'm excluding Sky, TT and Virgin on the basis that your landline is already paid-up for a year).

gabitzul

My requirements are pretty simple:

40GB plus allowance
wireless router
reasonable speed (over 8 mb?)

What is the consensus about plusnet? I am tempted by their offer but it's the £25 fee that puts me off.

diamonds

Might want to edit your phone number out :eek:

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i`d see what BT can offer,i get unlimited BB for £10.50 month and unlimited landline calls for £4.90

mnbvcxz

I think if you use a cashback site like quidco or topcashback it may be possible to get the plus.net 25 sign up fee back in cashback. Perhaps then you would be on a monthly contract and able to leave if you did not like it?

Of course you would not have a router but you can usually pick them up second hand on ebay for a tenner, even quite nice ones often.

Tesco I think also offer unlimited (100gb) broadband for about 10 pounds a month for the first year. But no one every uses them so its hard to know what they are like.

gabitzul

diamonds wrote: »

Might want to edit your phone number out :eek:

Thanks, edited out.

I have read some real horror stories about Tesco, I think I will stay away...