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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Dan n Nic on 11 March 2012, 21:50
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Any recommendations? We are moving on tuesday and currently have sky, but i just think it's a waste as we never use the landline, we only ever get nuisance calls on it. Anyone who wants / needs us just uses the mobiles.
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You have to either have:
1) Virgin cable/Fibre - pretty sure you don't need a land line as part of your package
2) Get a landline, cheapest package going see if your ISP can bundle it in. Then never plug a landline phone in :wink:
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Cheers, i just think paying £12 for nothing is a waste of my well earnt wonga.
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You have to either have:
1) Virgin cable/Fibre - pretty sure you don't need a land line as part of your package
2) Get a landline, cheapest package going see if your ISP can bundle it in. Then never plug a landline phone in :wink:
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13733/~/do-i-need-a-bt-phone-landline-to-get-bt-infinity%3F
Virgins traffic management makes my 20Mb connection next to useless, whenever I actually want to download something, I get rate limited to death.
If only ADSL wasn't 4Mb indicative where I live!
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my virgin bb is fantastic. stay away from anything that says BT on it :wink:
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my virgin bb is fantastic. stay away from anything that says BT on it :wink:
Explain as certain areas with virgin are f**king awful same as bt... i have bt broadband and i get 17.4mb download and 0.9mb upload and thats not infinity i download a sh!tload never restricted and i get unlimited calls and broadband for 14.50 a mth and the connection is stable as hell always host on cod etc
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my virgin bb is fantastic. stay away from anything that says BT on it :wink:
Explain as certain areas with virgin are f**king awful same as bt... i have bt broadband and i get 17.4mb download and 0.9mb upload and thats not infinity i download a sh!tload never restricted and i get unlimited calls and broadband for 14.50 a mth and the connection is stable as hell always host on cod etc
count yourself lucky. anytime i have had to deal with bt for broadband be it business or personal their levels of customer service are shocking. not had any problems with my virgin at all.
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my virgin bb is fantastic. stay away from anything that says BT on it :wink:
Explain as certain areas with virgin are f**king awful same as bt... i have bt broadband and i get 17.4mb download and 0.9mb upload and thats not infinity i download a sh!tload never restricted and i get unlimited calls and broadband for 14.50 a mth and the connection is stable as hell always host on cod etc
count yourself lucky. anytime i have had to deal with bt for broadband be it business or personal their levels of customer service are shocking. not had any problems with my virgin at all.
True bt customer service arent the best!!!
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Why not mobile network based broadband?
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Why not mobile network based broadband?
Fair point, my mother has a 3G router and it works. most of the time. It can be laggy depending on what you want to do and how many people are using it and some services such as iplayer on SmartTV's won't show the HD content because it detects you're on a mobile connection and it's expensive per GB if you download or stream a lot.
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Have you got a mobile with data allowance?
You could just turn your phone into a wifi hotspot and use that. I would suggest doing this as a trial to see if you can get good enough mobile reception to make it worth using mobile broadband.
If you have rubbish mobile reception in your new place (like we do) then using mobile broadband will be out of the question.
If for example you are on o2 for your mobile, you can get broadband for £3.50 (upto 20GB download/month) and phone line rental for £13 p/m, so £16.50 all in.
And if you don't like receiving calls on the home phone, just don't plug one in. Although if you have rubbish reception on your mobile then you'll want a landline for making and receiving calls. (We've changed networks from Orange-Voda-o2 and still not had good reception so have to have a landline - this, we didn't know before we moved into the house).