ISP without a BT line?

BlackDragon

BlackDragon

BlackDragon

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Hi, I'm moving into a new house in the next few days and I'll need to sort out the internet.

They already have virgin media cable, but it is pretty dire. Paying for 4Mb or something but getting less than 1Mb. I rang up BT to have my package moved from my current house to the new one, and they offered a discounted bill if I reknew my contract for next year. Apparently the BT line is not connected and it'll cost £120 for an engineer to come out and connect it.

Being students, me or my flatmates can't justify paying £120 for someone to simply connect a cable at the local distribution point at the end of the street. I find it quite ludicrous how they much they charge for this 'service'. If anything, it should be free as I'm trying to be their customer!

So that rules out BT, Virgin Media, as well as any ISP that requires a BT line. So does anyone know of an ISP that does not require a BT line? We don't want anything too expensive, we want something fast and reliable (6Mb+), unlimited download, and isn't subject to capping, etc. Also preferably one with no connection fee, or if there has to be, then something as low as possible.

Thanks in advance
 
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Virgin Media.

That's the choice these days since Cable is a complete monopoly.

Unless you live in Hull...but let's not go down that road.

I suppose theres always 3G, Sattelite and Leased Line's....but if you can't pay the £120 for a new BT line you're not going to be able to pay for the rest.

You could always ask a neighbour nicely to share their WiFi or if they don't have internet, use their phoneline for it.
 
we had a thread like this before didnt we? virgin *arent* that bad and sounds like the best/only option if you dont want to pay the £120 to BT
 
BT are doing an offer to get a line installed for £30, but you have to agree to a 18 months contract at £11 a month for the phone line.

It took about 40 minutes to get someone at bt who new about the offer and make all the arrangements, to have it installed. it took about 2.5 hours for the engineer to fit the line.
 
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Whenever BT try and charge you this simply hang up and call back their 'reconnections line'. They'll possibly mess you around too, but you can get them to agree to the fact you won't be charged if an engineer comes to your house but doesn't have to do any work (if there's a BT master socket there, they won't do).

I've had to argue BT out of 3 reconnection charges. One of them £200 to include the work the engineer did to "fix" the phoneline (which was fine, it was an issue at the exchange where our equipment was connected to Tiscali LLU rather than Be, affecting only the internet).
 
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Sky broadband will refund you BT's charge if you ask them. £26 for unlimited net and basic tv
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Plus £14 a month line rental.

Personally I've not had trouble with Virgin, although we are heavy net users no one downloads. There are 2 WoW addicts but again, dont think its that bad. I watch a lot of iPlayer and 4oD, never had a problem!
We are only on the 2mb package!
 
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