BT Home / Business Telephone and Broadband switching to just one or another provider 13 May 2022 at 12:59PM in Broadband & internet access 2 replies 51 views

KOSMOS7

Hi

We need to cut back on our expenditure and am in need of any helpful advice/suggestions please.

We live in the countryside. My partner has an office (with BT business phone line /business broadband) at the end of our garden. Our home is 18 m away with separate home BT phone / broadband set up. 

We have BT Sport,  Sky tv and five of the family are with Vodafone mobile (signal is terrible in the area, so going through wi-fi). All three are out of contract now. 

We definitely need to keep the business phone line /broadband. Is there a way to just use the these for the house but with still a strong signal for use in the house and upstairs. Broadband use is just shopping/streaming. 

Will BT permit home use going through Business line /broadband if we still want BT Sport?

We were considering ditching Vodafone and switching to BT/EE to save but worried about reception even if going through wi-fi - which seems to be dropping regularly at the moment. 

I am sure that we can save money but it is a bit of a minefield from someone not technically savvy :-)

Many thanks in advance for help.

Neil_Jones

Why did you feel the need to have business broadband for the office at the end of the garden?

You could have just used the normal home broadband and run a suitable weatherproof network cable to the office at the end of the garden - or piped the business broadband connection back into the house - unless you needed two separate numbers you didn't need two different connections.

The only real difference between business broadband and domestic broadband (besides price) is that you get dibs on fault repairs and (in theory) better customer service.  There's nothing that says you can't use business broadband for domestic use.

Re: mobile phone signals - order free sims from the other three providers and see what you get on the mobile network before you commit.

QrizB

Neil_Jones said:

Why did you feel the need to have business broadband for the office at the end of the garden?

You could have just used the normal home broadband and run a suitable weatherproof network cable to the office at the end of the garden - or piped the business broadband connection back into the house - unless you needed two separate numbers you didn't need two different connections.

Even if you *do* need two landline numbers you could have one of them as VoIP.