Two Homes, One Broadband Contract?

soldier_sam

Hi all, Does anyone know (apart from the obvious of having 2 contracts, one for each house) how I can get broadband at my weekend home using my current monday to friday home broadband package? It's probably a tall order but there must be a way, I just don't know how? Any help would be appreciated.

mrJ_5

the same connection at quite a distance away - impossible ... unless you have loads of ethernet cable available, and have a network switch every 1/200m

the most prctical way, is to use a mobile datacard - such as vodafone's 3G one - then just use that all the time, but expensive . . .

sandy2_2

Ah the beauty of dial up just unplug from one house and replug in at the other, or does that only work here in Spain

mrJ_5

you can still do that in the UK with dial-up, unless the ISP ties it into the phone number via caller line ID

Welliesorter

Can't be done. You're using two lines so both need to have broadband. Enabling a line for ADSL isn't simply a matter of updating records on a computer. Someone has to install equipment in the local exchange and that has to be maintained and paid for.

Dial-up is different as it's just a matter of one modem making an ordinary phone call to another modem.

soldier_sam

thanks all, looks like the ISP's have me by the short & curleys! looks like its two connections or weekends without internet... maybe not a bad thing!