Spare broadband - how to use?

Crawford

Crawford

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Not sure if this is the best place for the question, or if it has an answer, but here goes......

We are now using 4G wireless broadband, which works pretty well. I was thinking of therefore dropping our existing ADSL broadband and getting a line-only home-phone package - not being quite brave enough to have no land-line in our very rural area.

However, since the PO stopped doing these there doesn't seem to be a cheap way to do this. It therefore looks like the cheapest approach will be to get a broadband package we don't actually need?!

Is there any smart way to use a "spare" broadband connection? Some sort of mulitplexing?!
 
Crawford said:
Not sure if this is the best place for the question, or if it has an answer, but here goes......

We are now using 4G wireless broadband, which works pretty well. I was thinking of therefore dropping our existing ADSL broadband and getting a line-only home-phone package - not being quite brave enough to have no land-line in our very rural area.

However, since the PO stopped doing these there doesn't seem to be a cheap way to do this. It therefore looks like the cheapest approach will be to get a broadband package we don't actually need?!

Is there any smart way to use a "spare" broadband connection? Some sort of mulitplexing?!
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There are several things you can do.
A) backup fall back for when your main isp/internet connection goes down for various reasons.
B) If you have children or teenagers ideal to bung them on a sep one, then Xbox gaming/downloading of games will not affect your internet. and in fact you can be stricter on that line parental controls ect/firewall strict as you like.
C) Smart home. your security cameras/doorbell. lighting ect ect.
D) similar to the above but just your smart tv/ Set-top box ie for Netflix amazon ect ect.
 
I just got rid of the phone line completely, I've found the 4g intetnet to be more reliable anyway.
 
Similar place to the OP

ADSL maximum I could ever get was 1mb which was useless ( exchange 6 miles away ) gigaclear installed FTTP point outside my front door over 2 years ago but due to their incompetence I cannot place an order for it. So 12 months ago I went down the 4G route with a three sim and never looked back, at first I paid to keep a regular land line connection. But there are just no good value deals going for "just" a landline only, so just recently I have gone with a VOIP service.
Went with vonage and managed to swap my landline number over to them, so my landline has gone from £25 a month + calls to £10 a month. Landline UK calls are free so :D

So now paying £16 a month for the sim and £10 a month for landline, while its not as fast as a proper fibre connection it manages to allow me to watch netflix at 4k while my youngest is watching youtube videos and my eldest is playing online with his xbox
 
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