Out of morbid curiosity
Simon Ough
8MB Broadband - 2GB Limit*
All 01/02 calls included
Line rental
With BT - £43.49 a month.
* Seems that as long as you stay under 20GB a month and you don't take the
piss you'll not be penalised. I hardly go over 4GB a month.
What would be an alternative to this?
Just one thing though - NOT TALK TALK, Tiscali or Biscit.
Anyone else out there?
Simon
Simon Ough
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Forgot to mention - I got a free wireless router with BT. Unfortunately that
will only work with BT, so I need to factor in that cost as well. I need
wireless.
My gut feeling is "stay with BT".
Agree?
Simon
linker3000
Simon Ough
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> What make of router - most can be re-educated to work with other
> providers.
BT Voyager 2091
Sucuba Dude
"Simon Ough" <simon....@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote in message
Apart from that one...............
Retired at hyphen dot dot
look for yourself.
They talk about 3Gb limit at peak times.
Their "Plus" service costs £14.99 and you'd soon recover the cost of your
router (or you can have one "free")
According to my router my current speed is 5920Kb.
It took 7 days exactly from order.
Retired
"Simon Ough" <simon....@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote in message
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ken r
"Simon Ough" <simon....@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote in message
"type" major companies target. They know you need your hand holding, will
believe anything they say and pay them anything they ask. Try looking on
the Martin Lewis money saving expert site.
poster
>8MB Broadband - 2GB Limit*
>All 01/02 calls included
>Line rental
>What would be an alternative to this?
Very limited if you are including the line rental as part of the wanted
list. Plus.Net will charge 15 for line rental (and 01/02 calls), and a
further 14.99 on Broadband Plus (which might be unsuitable for sizeable
numbers of users as there is traffic calming on peer-to-peer and Usenet
connections (except "whitelisted" known text-only NNTP servers), so not
much cop for binaries...
They're also doing a new "Broadband Basic" at 9.99 (inc 50 MB of traffic
and then additional 0.224p per MB, so 2 GB would cost about 14.40. Then
total would be ~24.50 (but the phone line option won't be available for
a couple of months, apparently
24.50 on Broadband Basic (less if under 2000 MB)
29.99 on Broadband Plus (with 'traffic calming')
30.99 on PAYG with 2 GB of traffic and minimal 'traffic calming'
>Just one thing though - NOT TALK TALK, Tiscali or Biscit.
>Anyone else out there?
Few, as I mentioned... Homechoice, Toucan (someone posted they use the
Tiscali network, but I cannot be sure). Bulldog and AOL UK. Peter M.
PhilT
poster wrote:
>
> Toucan (someone posted they use the
> Tiscali network, but I cannot be sure).
its worse than that, Jim. Toucan resell a Tiscali service, rather than
just using their network.
Phil
linker3000
Simon Ough
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> It sounds like you love to throw money down the drain,
How do you work that out?
> you're exactly the "type" major companies target. They know you need your
> hand holding, will believe anything they say and pay them anything they
> ask. Try looking on the Martin Lewis money saving expert site.
Look, I was just asking if there was a credible alternative, without using
TalkTalk, Tiscali or Biscit. I do not have cable here, so that's not an
option.
I don't mind paying for a quality service, and BT currently provide this.
And for what it's worth, I don't need my hand holding. I've been using the
net since 1996.
Clint Sharp
<c...@notopenreach.co.uk> writes
>>> What make of router - most can be re-educated to work with other
>>> providers.
>>
>> BT Voyager 2091
>>
>
>Apart from that one...............
Might wrap....... Could be worth a try.
>
>
>
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Clint Sharp
Nicholas Thomas
xln Telecom (www.xlntelecom.co.uk) for line rental+landline calls:
Free600 or Lite+ = £16.99 or £15.99 (+ VAT?)/month -- WLR service
Stick on ic24 Broadband (www.ic24.net)at £17.99/month, which is MaxDSL,
total comes to £34/month. Oh, and you save £32 with IC24's £11.99 for
the first 6 month deal.
Over those 6 months, you'd save an additional £60 on rental, leaving you
with plenty of cash to buy a router, and still make a saving.
Can the router not even be configured as a wireless access point,
uplinked to a (more flexible_ ADSL router? As you get a wired one free
with ic24. If not, Tesco are currently selling rebranded Belkins for £54.99
The above configuration (except hardware, anyway) is what a friend is
on, and he's been happy with it (just one outage so far). If you want a
"better" ISP, you could replace ic24 with Nildram's BB2Go/bb2glite,
f'rinstance. £15.99 or £13.99
Or you could keep BT for the line rental (+£10), and still break even in
terms of rental...
xF,
...Nick
(can't you tell I used to do this for a living? ;) )
Bob Eager
<simon....@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity - what would be an alternative to this?
>
> 8MB Broadband - 2GB Limit*
> All 01/02 calls included
> Line rental
>
> With BT - £43.49 a month.
>
> * Seems that as long as you stay under 20GB a month and you don't take the
> piss you'll not be penalised. I hardly go over 4GB a month.
>
> What would be an alternative to this?
Taking a slightly lateral view...forget about the free calls unless
there's loads, just for a minute...
My ISP do ADSL for 18.99 inclusive of VAT. BT is about 12 quid a month
for basic phone package. That's 31 quid a month total. That leaves you
quite a lot to make calls via 18185 at 3p a time (or is it 4p now?) and
still get under the current amount. That's the (up to) 8Mb/s service.
Lots of online monitoring of your line.
Advantages: that's a 1GB limit, but only during office hours. Other than
that it's effectively unlimited. Uploads are unlimited at all times. The
limits are 'soft' and you can carry over up to 10GB 'overspend' from one
month to the next. Excellent customer service and you get to talk to
proper technical people. Free Zyxel router on loan, pay the 6.70 postage
for it is all. 1 month contract.
Disadvantages: 49.99 setup charge. Router is 39.99 to keep it if you
leave them.
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