New ISP

M0T

M0T

M0T

Soldato
Joined
23 Aug 2003
Posts
4,582
Location
House
I am moving into a new flat at the weekend and need to get broadband installed.

I heard that sky were supposed to be good (and cheapish) and needing a new line I checked on their website. Their estimated installation date is 13th April because I need an engineer visit!

I plugged the same details into the BT website and received a message saying that the property had a line that needed to be turned on and it would all be ready on 4th of March. The only problem is that BT throttle their ADSL for p2p during evenings and weekends (which is when I am home).

Apart from Sky who else does free installation and unlimited broadband? If I get BT to sort out the line willI get full speed from a sky broadband service (and will it still take a month and a half to turn on?)?
 
Sky will arrange a visit from BT either way.

The difference will involve an engineer changing you from BT's equipment, to Sky's equipment at the exchange (if you can get LLU) or BT simply activating your IPStream service at the exchange if you can only get non LLU services.

I recently took Sky and they've been great. I moved, so I had to pay BT to get a new line installed (no line here) but since I've been active Sky have been great. Only problem I had was they didn't enable the 10 day training period, so I was capped at 4Mb for the first 2 weeks until I emailed them, but 1 email and the line is now running at great speeds.

FYI all the checkers, on all the sites (even Samknows) estimated 3Mb, and I get a solid 6Mb sync with a real world performance of 5.5Mb down, 0.8Mb up.



Only downside is the wait, but I'd never go with BT after experiencing terrible problems with their BRAs profiling system. 1 problem = reduced speed, which then takes days of solid uptime to rectify. Another problem? Reduce more speed :o

Can you get Be/o2?
 
Be want £86 to reactivate the old line.

If I get the Post Office to do it (apparently for free), will I still be able to get full 24mb broadband from another provider on that line (I don't understand all this LLU stuff having been a Virgin Cable customer for years)?
 
My question was whether I can take a post office phone line and get 24mb Be internet. This would mean cheap line rental and free activation.
 
I imagine having a line from the Post Office will tie you in to their broadband for 12 months?

I'd go with Sky if you want a decent ISP, and are willing to pay for the line to be set up.
 
So if I just get the phone line from the post office I can't use another broadband supplier? I can't really wait a month and a half for internet access.
 
Not sure. Ring the post office and ask if signing up to the line with them means you are tied in to their broadband service.

I know when we moved we had to get BT to port the line (sky couldn't do it for a move), and so by getting BT involved meant I was tied in to a 12 month contract with line rental from them :o
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom