MBScooby

I currently have Wanado broadband at home, but I am about to move house and was looking at changing my broadband service. The new house has no phone line connected yet, but I don't want a phone line for making calls just internet access.
What is the best way of getting a good reliable setup at a reasonable price ?


Cheers in advance.

suba

unfortunately you will have to get a BT line to have adsl broadband. and since there's no fones in the new house, you will have to dig deeper into your pockets for the connection charges. unless you can get wireless off your neighbours

ChrisB

You don't have to have a BT (Retail) line.

I know of at least one company that takes lines from BT Wholesale and does their own billing. They can have ADSL on and are a little bit cheaper than a BT line.

The name of the company escapes me right now though...

MBScooby

already thought of the wireless link

Sounds interesting ChrisB

Rusty.

Isn't Wanadoo's 1Mb service with free activation and USB modem for £17.99 the best offer out at the moment?


BT (Retail) may install you a line for free if you ask nicely - tell them they won't get any rental off you unless they do

Paying monthly by direct debit seems to be the best way to reduce that bill.

Chris - looking forward to more details on the thinking aloud moment

jfrf

only problem with wanadoo is that they are supoosed to be implementing download restrictions in the nearfuture. think its a 2 gig cap

Rusty.

Ahhh, I see - they are just land grabing then

ChrisB

Found them

Internet Telecomms

£5.25 line rental per month on DD (BT Together Option 1 is £10.95 on DD).

Rusty.

Will this affect my existing ADSL service...and what about my Carrier Pre-Selection?

Looks interesting...

ChrisB

From the depths of my memory - I have a thought that CPS should be carried over but I doubt ITplus would like it. I'm not 100% sure though.

From their FAQ:

Rusty.

Would be great if they could also bill for broadband - true one bill.

Waiting for them to get back to me with details of affiliates program

GaryK

I should check with them re:CPS we are just in the final stages of getting BT wholesale access, not all wholesale providers have what is known as CPS retain which is where once they take the line over the CPS routes with your existing LCR provider. I would also check the price, even at wholesale rates I cant see how they can do it for that money, I need to check what resi line rental is as we dont touch that market.

Also be aware that switching to a wholesale provider then line faults have to be reported to them first who in turn escalate to BT, depends how critical it is but BT have by far the best fault reporting/rectifying processes.

Gary

Hammoc

This is a very useful site

http://www.adslguide.org

Just getting myself sorted with Broadband. I'm already a BT phone customer so was just 'adding on' Broadband. Have gone with Eclipse on their 'Home Broadband' option. Getting 1Mbps connection for £14.99/mth with 1Gb mthly limit. I'm too far in the sticks to get a 2Mbps connection, but this would have been the same price.