Cheapest way to get a phone line installed + ADSL connection..

bledd · 3 Apr 2009 at 11:52

Mum wants to get wireless in her holiday cottage (as in, one she rents out to people)

Instead of sharing her house connection, the best solution is to get it's own landline

Her connection is limited to 512kb (really damn far from the exchange, lucky to get BB at all)

Basically after cheapest line rental, with basic internet, I'll lock it down via router / opendns

Comments?

Sin_Chase · 3 Apr 2009 at 12:21

Do not live on the mainland but I heard people posting of data lines only for cheaper than a voice/data line installation/rental.

Might be worth looking into that if its purely for DSL.

wij · 3 Apr 2009 at 14:40

As you're in the sticks you probably have no LLU services so your only real option would be:

BT Line (Install £125 then £10.50 / month rental) + Really cheap ADSL provider at £15/month ? Maybe even use BT?

At the moment I do not think it is possible to get a BT line installed for just DSL purposes and pay no rental to them for it.

errata · 3 Apr 2009 at 14:48

Unless its physically impossible to share the existing connection I dont see how you can get a new landline without paying a significant sum in BT install fees and a chunk of monthly line rental plus monthly broadband (maybe sky or talktalk or simialr for the rental and a package). cottage would have to be making a lot of money to cover all that.

there used to be some sattelite broadband services if you board the hardware ?

wij · 3 Apr 2009 at 14:52

errata said:
there used to be some sattelite broadband services if you board the hardware ?

By the time you've bought / leased the hardware a reasonable (say 512/128) satellite connection will likely cost as much as or more than a fixed line solution.

bledd · 3 Apr 2009 at 15:02

so looking at roughly..

£125 one off

then £25ish a month?

that will easily pay for itself, as currently the odd customer is turned away because they wouldn't be able to work whilst on holiday

also, is there a way to set your router to keep telling opendns what it's IP is? -ie, without needing to use software to make sure opendns filtering is always used...

hmm tiscali seem to do £15 a month, including line rental

dave-lew99 · 3 Apr 2009 at 17:24

You might be able to get the install down from £30 if you sweet talk them / tell them you're 'coming back' to BT etc

Carter · 3 Apr 2009 at 17:27

Apparently Post Office do a new line for £100 with the bonus of not being tied into a 12 month contract like you would be with a BT install.

bledd · 3 Apr 2009 at 17:28

also, it's never had a phone line to the cottage. so will need some engineer work,,

nrh1703 · 6 Apr 2009 at 21:35

I got a bt line reactivated by the post office cos it was cheaper. their sevice has been good and i can get adsl from any isp that offers it at my exchange on a bt line. definately worth checking if they can provide a line.