Would you buy a house-no dsl possible?

bingo_bango

ooo000ooo wrote: »

It's now both ways via the dish and afaicr it's now charged at the same rate as normal broadband.

The service is the same price.

They charge you around £1K for equipment and set up costs though. Have an uncle who is remote (about 4 miles from outskirts of Newry), and they tried to hardwire BB for him, but after 4 weeks of trying to get it to work, BT eventually gave up and pulled it out.
They offered the satellite solution, but when he heard he costs he nearly swore at them.
Must investigate the Virgin mentioned above for him.

ooo000ooo

bingo_bango wrote: »

The service is the same price.

They charge you around £1K for equipment and set up costs though. Have an uncle who is remote (about 4 miles from outskirts of Newry), and they tried to hardwire BB for him, but after 4 weeks of trying to get it to work, BT eventually gave up and pulled it out.
They offered the satellite solution, but when he heard he costs he nearly swore at them.
Must investigate the Virgin mentioned above for him.

It may have changed recently but the installation costs were subsidised by DETI (i think) so that satellite customers could get connected at no extra cost.

CL

What about this new 3 mobile broadband solution, anyone got it?

miserly_mum

I love my internet but unless I needed it for work and it really was my DREAM home and at the right price then i'd def do without the broadband.

echos_mum

Yes - it WOULD affect me if I couldn't get BB, and I know there was a property sale that fell through when the buyers found there was no BB.

We had been trying for BB for over 2 years, and, being 11kms from the enabled exchange, we kept getting the "maybe" response, followed by a BT engineer visit (after MUCH pushing on the phone to BT - & that's another story - HOURS holding on!! - - ) and twice the engineer finds there's no signal! After seeing BT vans around our village so many times over a few weeks, I decided to try again, this time using a local computer engineer with a better link to the relevant people. STILL no joy. THEN I discover that my neighbour (semi-detached to us!) HAS got BB!!!! How's that? I spoke to the last BT engineer to have tested my line and he said that it's just luck! We get interference on our line, next door doesn't! (He didn't offer to see if there were any spare lines in our "bundle" which might have worked!) - SO - with our BRILLIANT neighbours' agreement, we now have a cable running from thier router, out of their window and into ours! No worries about affecting each other's internet or getting their e-mails etc. All "clean" and we get pretty fast downloads etc. I have BB at work and we get as good as there. We share the cost which suits all of us, and so far there's been no slowing down for them and no problems at all. A win/win solution!!