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I'm busy and too lazy to shop around. Can we have a little competition? Who's got the cheapest line rental + broadband package, how much, and who with? Currently PlusNet is in the lead...

Cheers!


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 10:33 am
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If your sole criteria is price, you'll not beat PlusNet, they're the cheapest in the country for standalone ADSL currently.

There's cheaper to be had if you factor in other things. For instance, if you get the base package and already have a mobile with them, O2 is like £2/month or something silly. The basic Sky ADSL is free so long as you migrate your land line to them.

Any other questions? (-:


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 10:39 am
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You realize cheap = shit, right


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 10:40 am
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Easy for me: Free. TalkTalk.


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 10:41 am
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Free. TalkTalk.

You're overpaying for that.


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 10:43 am
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You're overpaying for that.

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Posted : 23/06/2011 10:44 am
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[url= http://top10.com/broadband/packages/ ]lazy bones[/url]


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 10:45 am
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BE Broadband everytime. Maybe not the cheapest (but still cheap), and afaik they dont do line rental, but it is a very good service. Great customer care and they dont throttle or restrict your bandwidth.


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 10:50 am
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Be is limited in availability, if its at your exchange I'd go for it.
Im paying £24pm for Sky line, calls and BB and its fine. Make sure their LLU product is available first, otherwise you'll be on a std BT sourced product, which does get throttled at peak times.
[url=www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_availability]Samknows[/url]
Will tell you all you need to know.


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 11:02 am
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BE Broadband

O2's LLU offering is BE Internet rebadged. If you can get BE and have an O2 mobile, you can get the same product cheaper (I think you save about a fiver a month).


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 11:08 am
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Thanks guys. Looks like I'm fairly limited in what I can get - ADSL or ADSL Max. Sky came in at £28/month as I'm outside their normal region. PlusNet still winning!


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 11:09 am
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Sky came in at £28/month as I'm outside their normal region.

Yeah, that's BT Wholesale for you.


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 11:12 am
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Yep, if you buy their BT based service there is a surcharge of about £6 IIRC.


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 11:20 am
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Are you worried about fair use policy or throttling?


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 11:29 am
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Not really, just going to use it for email and browsing, occasionally music and iplayer watching I guess too.


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 11:33 am
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Well I player watching at peak time could be interesting with some of the cheaper ISP's


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 11:44 am
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Are you worried about fair use policy or throttling?

I've told the netowrk engineers at my place that if they try to "traffic shape" me, I'll throttle them..!

But they're network engineers, so they're too busy playing with Junipers and Redbacks....


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 12:21 pm
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Virgin do traffic shaping (during peak times) on their ADSL network if that bothers you.

We pay £24 inc landline rental (all inclusive with Virgin National)


 
Posted : 23/06/2011 1:42 pm

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