Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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Place i'm moving to has no form of phone line, I need broadband.
Whats the cheapest possible way to get it? Proper broadband, not pay as you go crap.
Thanks
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
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Satellite or 3G sounds like your only options.
Just to clarify...there's no chance at all of a line being installed?
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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It can be installed mate, just no idea what the cheapest way to go about it is?
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Kathryn W
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Widnes, Cheshire
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We have a BT Line - £9 a month, unlimited evening and weekend calls.
O2 Broadband - £7.50
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Pay BT 130 quid if it's never had a line before and get adsl.
Cable is another option if the area has it.
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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You will have to pay BT mate. They are robbing twats!
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Kathryn W
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Widnes, Cheshire
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No they ain't Andrew 
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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I think there was a phone line in there at one point, not 100% sure though
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Kathryn W
No they ain't Andrew
They are when they charge 130 to install it.
Just phone up BT then, depends if the line was cancelled or ceased, if it was ceased it's expensive.
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
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£130 to install a line is not too bad really. It's the fact you have to pay for things like broadband 3 months in advance. Then the fact they charge £30 a month for a package you can get for £10 else where.
Although, if you sign a contract for 12 - 18 months you should get the line in for free imo.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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You've got a choice in regards to who you use for broadband, you need a phoneline from them though.
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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Phone line from BT.
Internet from O2.
Stop being a fag and order it!
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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Indeed. I still think if you sign a contract you should get the line installed for free.
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
Phone line from BT.
Internet from O2.
Stop being a fag and order it!
Its getting ordered on sat, ace
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willay
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phone line or use a good wireless adapter and use someone elses 
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Whittie, if you do get the phoneline you will start a 12 month contract and if you move before 12 months and take up another line you will start another contract, and its expensive to get out of it (£45 disconnection charge [fucking joke] + every month of line rental left) 
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stubbsy05
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Look on moneysavingexpert.co.uk
People are getting phonelines installed for £30 opposed to thje £130 they normally charge.
Or if your getting Sky also, ask them as they will pay for phone line install iirc
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BYRON
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Registered: 1st Jun 04
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BT Line @ £12/mth
BT BB @ £16/mth
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MarkM
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Registered: 11th Apr 01
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
Whittie, if you do get the phoneline you will start a 12 month contract and if you move before 12 months and take up another line you will start another contract, and its expensive to get out of it (£45 disconnection charge [fucking joke] + every month of line rental left)
I found this. I was nearly 10 months into a contract...then moved and had to start again! Its a joke. Yes carry on the contract...but don't start another fucking contract...
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Yep, and with my broadband they started a new 18 month contract when the twat on the phone told me several times this one wouldnt need to be renewed  So im stuck paying £37 a month to the robbing bastards for 2mb connection (due to my new location far from exchange) until July, or a £245 bill to end.
Wankers the lot of them
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MarkM
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Registered: 11th Apr 01
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I was paying £25.50 for up to 8MB...in reality I was getting 2.7 MB max. Then £13 odd for line rental. No I have Sky for both and pay £0 for line rental and £0 for BB. I am on 2MB and get that all day so I have lost 0.7 MB for a saving of nearly £40 a month.
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Mike2k111
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Registered: 7th Oct 03
Location: N.Wales
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O2 broadband is having quite a few problems at the moment. Ive been with them for 7months on the Access package (BT lines not the LLU service) and basically peak congestion is aweful.
My speeds early hours of the morning are around 4.8Mbps which is fine as my IP profile is set at 5Mbps. This drops down to as low as 400kbps between 5pm-10pm and most of the weekend. Having rang up O2 to complain i got a call back a few days later with an official statement read to me about the problems their network backbone is having with the peak time load.
Basically they got very popular faster than they had time to plan for so although the customer service is first rate, their equiptment isnt up to the ammount of people using the service atm :-(
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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Mobile broadband?
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