Moving in to a rented house Internet question

Clairvoyant

Clairvoyant

Clairvoyant

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Hi

On Tuesday I am moving in to a rented house. Now I have been with telewest (now virgin crap) for years.

The house has BT so I will be going ASDL.

1) whats a good ISP unlimited/Price (I do a bit of downloading but mainly play EVE and the net)
2) The current tenents have cancelled thier BB with BT, but it does not get cancelled till the friday After I have moved in.
3) Am I going to have any problems setting up an ISP.

Thanx for any help.
 
BE broadband and sky seem to be what most people suggest for ADSL at the moment (although make sure you are in a BE/SKY area that does local loop unblundleing LLU)
Although personally i'd go with virgin if you are in an enabled area.

You will probably have to wait for the week, as Sky/BE wont touch the line if BT still have a contract on it, and BT wont give you the release code to move to sky/BE as you are not the account holder.

I suppose you could call BT and explain the circumstances, maybe get them to drop the line quicker.

That's just my opinion anyways
//TrX
 
Clairvoyant said:
Hi

On Tuesday I am moving in to a rented house. Now I have been with telewest (now virgin crap) for years.

The house has BT so I will be going ASDL.

1) whats a good ISP unlimited/Price (I do a bit of downloading but mainly play EVE and the net)
2) The current tenents have cancelled thier BB with BT, but it does not get cancelled till the friday After I have moved in.
3) Am I going to have any problems setting up an ISP.

Thanx for any help.
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This is interesting. I'm moving next month to a place with Virgin cable. I've been with Plusnet years and I'm generally very happy with them but with the opportunity to get cable I'm thinking of switching.

Why are you thinking of moving from cable to DSL? Why shouldn't I move from DSL to cable?
 
clv101 said:
Why are you thinking of moving from cable to DSL? Why shouldn't I move from DSL to cable?
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It's not as black & white as Cable vs ADSL
Virgin cable is probably better then a lot of ADSL providers, but then BE Internet is recommended above Virgin cable. There are some good LLU providers which I chose over cable.

When I moved here I chose BE over virgin, I could have had Virgin 20mb (soon to be 50mb I think I may have read somewhere, not sure). Instead I went with BE even though I only connect at 11mb. Virgin will throttle if you download too much so they were no good to me :)
 
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WWPAIG


Paignton (WWPAIG)
General information
Exchange name: Paignton
Exchange code: WWPAIG
Location: Torbay,
South West
Postcode: TQ45DB
Maps: Our map | Multimap | Streetmap
Serves (approx): 19,635 residential premises
1,243 non-residential premises

Broadband availability overview
ADSL: Yes
SDSL: Yes
LLU services: Yes
Cable: Yes
Wireless: No
View larger and more detailed map

BT Wholesale information
ADSL status: Enabled as of 30/06/2001
ADSL Max status: Enabled as of 31/03/2006
SDSL status: Enabled as of 08/05/2005
21CN WBC status: RFS date set: 18/08/2008
21CN PSTN switchover target: Q2 2010

Wireless broadband availability
LTT Broadband: Not available
Now Wireless: Not available
OnLincolnshire: Not available

Cable broadband availability
Virgin Media: Available in some areas
Smallworld Media: Not available


» Who are all these providers? Click here
» Spotted an error? Let us know! LLU operator presence What is this?

AOL: Enabled as of 05/11/2007
O2 / Be: RFS date set: 30/06/2008
C&W / Bulldog: Not available
Edge Telecom: Not available
Entanet: Not available
Lumison: Not available
NewNet: Not available
Node4: Not available
Orange: Not available
Pipex: Not available
Sky / Easynet: Enabled as of 23/06/2007
Smallworld: Not available
TalkTalk (CPW): Enabled
Tiscali: Not available
Tiscali TV: Not available
WB Internet: Not available
Zen Internet: Not available



Exchange history

29/03/2008 BT Wholesale has set an enablement date of 18/08/2008 for their 21CN Wholesale Broadband Connect product at the Paignton exchange
05/03/2008 Be Unlimited has set an enablement date of 30/06/2008 for the Paignton exchange
05/11/2007 AOL has enabled the Paignton exchange for their service
23/06/2007 Sky/Easynet has enabled the Paignton exchange for their service
19/10/2006 BT have set a target date of Q2 2010 for the switch to 21CN for the Paignton exchange

So can I get BE
 
Virgin's website is rubbish! Why can't a simply see the products separately with the prices and the contract lengths... grrr...
 
Problem you are going to have is that new BT connections are a minimum 12 months, so you cannot simply go to BE after 3 months, I think you'd have to pay the remainder of the contract.
 
PiKe said:
Problem you are going to have is that new BT connections are a minimum 12 months, so you cannot simply go to BE after 3 months, I think you'd have to pay the remainder of the contract.
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You're still with BT for the voice service, so unless you sign up for BT for ADSL there isn't a problem.
 
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