Hi all,

I'm getting quite annoyed with my plug and play internet, basically I think I was fobbed off with it will work anywhere excuse and fair play it does to a extent but not to my house where I can wait for five mins before it loads up a page (so called broadband connection), Now my question is should I just purchase a BT phoneline and get a home hub as virgin will not work in my area and keep my plug and play connection and pay £15 a month even through I would only use it for say if I was going anywhere like on holiday or try and get out of the contact and be out of pocket.

What to people think, when we were in the shop I asked the boy if it would work in my postocode area and he said yes, but after speaking to a friend he says it might be because we are out in the sticks sort of.

I'm quite tempted to get a home hub but what do people think about BT??

Hope you can help.

Davy

LOL, we did try and point this out to you at the time.

You can get a complete package from BT, but the deal is usually only for 3 months, then ends up nearer £30/month.

Some providers offer both phone and net for around £20/month however you'll likely have a connection fee as the line will likely be non working.

So, get the minimum BT line option £10/month (unless you want evening and weekend calls free to landlines) then take your pick from what's out there that fits your needs and budgets.

If you're with O2 or Orange for mobile, then they do special deals for mobile customers - Orange from Free-£10/month.

Cheers gadgetman, might consider the o2 option, the problem is sometimes it works like now and sometimes when I want to use it it is dead slow, only in the area that I live, used it at my mum and dads and the connection is good as well as SWMBO's parents provides a good connection.

Davy

you could have a look at sky

there doing some reasonable packages just now

Orange from Free-£10/month.

If you area not in a " Orange Broadband Area " it will cost you an extra £8. I tried to change my Orange broadband package but because we are not in there " Area " it worked out more expensive. we wanted the one where orange pay our BT line rental.

Try the orange web site to check your area

O2 will give you free home broadband when you take mobile broadband or if you have an O2 mobile contract they will give you O2 (Be internet) broadband from £7.50 a month.

Thanks guys, was speaking to my brother and he was saying it all depends what I use it for ie if I upload tons of pics or casual forum browsing, he thinks the same as you guys to get a proper broad band connection if I want to watch Youtube, Bebo etc and photo uploading but if it was casual forum using which I'm doing the now then the deal I've got the now would be ok as long as I could put up with the slow connection and if I did want to upload pics then to pop down to my parents and he would hook me up to their internt connection.

I'm going to do a bit of investigation into the O2 deal through.

Shame T-mobile dont do ADSL/LLU yet.

In Europe, their packages are pretty good from what I remember.

Well last night the net worked like a dream, I'm wondering if the time makes a diffrence, it was still a bit slow but not compared to like the other nights, I could use brisky, bebo and another forum without to much hassle, from what I have heard from a computer techie it's the matter of a few feet to get a decent reception for the mobile broadband. I'll keep you updated on this.

If you have a 5 bar mobile signal there then you will get good speed on the modem (assuming same network).

If you get full speed, then you will probably get a big phone bill for it too.

I'd still seriously suggest taking somebody up on their offer of home broadband with it.

Who is your mobile broadband provider?

Mobile broad band provider is t mobile

Cheapest way to get BB is:

Have your line re-activated by the Post Office, they don't tie you into a contract so you can go straight to another provider. (Assuming you have a BT box in the house somewhere)

Then sign up with Talk Talk on the Talk Weekend plan, this will cost you £15.49 a month, line rental, weekend calls are free, up to 8mb DSL with a Router and 40gb cap.

Before anyone pipes up with I think Talk Talk are crap, you get what you pay for

Just done this for the GF sister and we are currently waiting for the BB to go live.

Post office are quite good and you might find that if they pay to reactivate your line you are tied in for a period or have a pay them back clause.

You may even need to pay. Reactivation can be as much as £150 or free depending on the provider

Post office are quite good and you might find that if they pay to reactivate your line you are tied in for a period or have a pay them back clause.

Post Office providing coms - what next - shades of 197xx -(blokes running around in green vans shouting "hey hey ho we work for the GPO ,you'll get no phone ,that's well known , hey ,ho--hey ,ho,hey ho--- " )

Seriusly - from what I hear - shy clear of SKY broadband .

Seriusly - from what I hear - shy clear of SKY broadband .

Any particular reason? everyone I know on it, including in-laws, have no issues.

Seriusly - from what I hear - shy clear of SKY broadband .

They are fine in my experience, as long as your phone line is working tip-top, if it ain't then it's BT's fault not Sky's, the problem comes when they both try too blame each other for the problem and your stuck in the middle.

HTH