Broadband Supplier

[DorsetDude]

Hi all

currently with talktalk for broadband/phone. Pay £21 a month including line rental. Use my landline to make calls hardly ever. once or twice a month tops. Broadband I use the internet once or twice a week and to try and watch iplayer via my ps3 if it'll work without the white circle of death coming up all the time.

Just wondering if I could find a cheaper deal, looked at 02 as Im a customer but not particularly cheap even then. Anyone know any others? Got to be less than £21 including line rental.

Also if you swap supplier is it possible to keep same email address?

Thanks

 

[Mikesphotaes]

Doubt if you will get much cheaper.

You will keep any hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc. addies but will lose your talk talk (tiscali) ones.

 

[markmullen]

I've just signed up with Plusnet who have been very good, I get very quick broadband, good service from a UK callcentre. Just having a look you could get it down to £17, £3 for broadband and £14 line rental. Not a massive saving but in percentage terms not bad.

http://www.plus.net/myreferrals/new.html?intReferrerID=02066479

 

[DorsetDude]

Cheers guys. Maybe ringing my lot and whinging that I need a new router might be a plan?

 

[cambsno]

Plusnet are pretty good too.

 

[petersmart]

I use a dongle from 3M plugged into a router at home to feed 2 PCs when needed.
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I get about 20Gb a month at a cost of £16.00 monthly - no telephone line needed.

And of course I can take it with me if I ever go out and need a broadband connection.

Speeds are a bit slow compared to other forms of broadband but I've never found it a real nuisance since I don't download huge files like films etc.

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[srichards]

Have a look on uswitch. They usually have deals.

If you want to keep the same email address then it has to be either a free one like yahoo or a domain based one. You lose the isp specific one if you switch. That's why I set up a domain based one years ago. I can move around isp as much as I like.

 

[Russ77]

I'm with O2 (phone and broadband) and I'm quite happy to be paying a little more as their service and customer service is second to none!

Been with them for 3 years now, you get an 0800 number for customer services and technical help and both teams are in the UK.

I think I pay £27 per month for line rental, free evening/weekend phone calls and their middle "unlimited" BB package (up to 20MB d/l..... I get 17mb). A few months I've been in the 30-40gb download region and still not had any problems with their "fair use" policy.

The only reason I may consider moving from them is to get on to fibre BB which they don't currently do.