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if anyone can help that would be great
we're looking for a decent internet provider for our new house for next year at the minute madasafish seem to have the best deal but if anyone has any reccomendations that would be great.
we need it for 12 months
also what do other people use and is it any good?
we are clueless!!
thanks
if anyone can help that would be great
we're looking for a decent internet provider for our new house for next year at the minute madasafish seem to have the best deal but if anyone has any reccomendations that would be great.
we need it for 12 months
also what do other people use and is it any good?
we are clueless!!
thanks
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If so, O2 is £7.50 p/m for an O2 mobile customer
+£10.50 for BT landline = £18 p/m.
I do work for them, but I'm also a customer and the service is top notch.
Have a look at http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/cheap-broadband
Internet: This house has a hard wired cat5 network for shared broadband internet access
Not sure if that would be any help?
I really am clueless and naive when it comes to this.
As we only want it for 12 months most of the deals look like they will be £10pm which seems really good especially between 3 people
what we are worried about is hidden charges and reeeally slow internet. with the phone line we are only going to have it for incoming calls.
x2 used virgin for years never had any problems
im not 100% but i think this will cause issues if you're intending on using the phone line for adsl (majority of providers use dsl)
Lucky you, we've been with them 2 years and ntl for 2 years before that (and my boyfriend had a line in a different house for 2 years. Had nothing but problems with them, and know people the same. Although i know people who've been fine
We've had our services constantly cut off for no reason - all we get is an apology and 72 hours til it gets back on, duplicate bills after we've already paid, technical problems and been told we weren't getting charged for calls to tech support cos it was their fault, and then a massive bill, hung up on constantly when we tried to cancel a line and they chased my boyfriend for 6 months worth of bills long after he'd cancelled his account. When we got our virgin set up box there was no remote, scart or power cable and it took 20, yes TWENTY calls to get a remote sent out. From my experience the service is good until something goes wrong and then you can't get it fixed for love nor money. Unless you get through to the scottish call centre, they're lovely up there
But its fast and cheap so we love it :thumb:
Why do we always get the bollocks ones!! Seriously I rang once cos the internet was cut off for no reason and the woman just kept saying 'and how are you being today?' constantly and didn't help at all!
yup, theres a 30 quid connection fee at the start but thats just to cover them as theres no contract
costs 5er more if you're unfortunate enough to live in a non-llu area!
its all according if you're virgin cable or non-cable. rachie is non cable which is where i work and we're based in wales
cable support is mostly offshore unfortunately
But based on what you want, just go for the cheapest, if you check out moneysavingexpert they have a guide for getting the cheapest broadband. Also you can haggle if you get a package or something, we managed to get our internet for £10 a month instead of £25 a month.
Rich has a story very similar to that. The man at Orange broadband tried to tell him to check all the things he'd already checked, even though he'd rung up and said "look, I'm in IT, I have done all the things you're going to get me to do, this is the problem". It's because they have a script and stuff.