non-contract broadband

[Madmaxx]

Just wondering since the phone line and internet was cancelled recently at my house as were hopefully moving, is non contract broadband any good. As the house has been on the market for about 2 months or so, and we have only had 1 viewer; and most broadband connections want an 18-month contract. I have looked around abit and some have download/usage limits; so wounldn't be too good for Xbox live I guess, just wondering if any have had any experience with it.

 

[Ch3tan]

It will be 3g/ hspda over a wireless dongle - gaming is out of the question, as will be most streaming, usage limits or not.

I have to ask, why cancel your broadband before you had an offer on the house?

 

[Madmaxx]

first part of my reply is, so you can't just get a normal broadband connection like we had before with AOL without have a long contract? Second part is that my mum decided to leave and cancel all the bills that she had a part in paying for. And by the time I found out it was all cancelled before, I would've prefered to keep paying for it myself if I had the option.

 

[nath]

www.bethere.co.uk has a 3 month contract on it's BE Unlimited package. Plus, keep in mind with most broadband providers you can move home within the contract and work out the remaining months in the new premises.

 

[soze]

thinkbroadband - Zen Internet - Zen Lite

Think broadband will let you sort broadband deals by contract length it looks like there are a lot of 30 day deals but they seems to have a set up fee like above.

 

[Zenith.UK]

I'm with Aquiss Internet.

(yes, that is a referral link)

The contract is month by month with no long tie-in.
The bandwidth quotas are better than most other ISPs out there. I'm on Business 45 which means I have 45GB of peak time usage and unlimited offpeak usage (8AM-8PM peak). Put another way, I'm a heavy bandwidth user and I've YET to break my quota in any given month because I schedule most of my downloads "out of hours".

The customer service is also decent. If you call up, you get someone who actually knows and understands their infrastructure and doesn't blame it all on your PC. The only accent they have is Shropshire.

G'wan! Give 'em a go!

 

[nath]

They seem to offer unlimited at 21quid a month:

Unlimited Broadband Packages | 24 Meg LLU broadband packages (ADSL2+)

What's the benefit of your business 45 over that, other than the contention ratio?

 

[Zenith.UK]

They seem to offer unlimited at 21quid a month:

Unlimited Broadband Packages | 24 Meg LLU broadband packages (ADSL2+)

What's the benefit of your business 45 over that, other than the contention ratio?

Premier is on ADSL2+ (up to 24Mbps DL, 1.3Mbps UL) and depends on if your exchange has been LLU enabled.
I can only get old old ADSL Max (up to 8Mbps DL, 800Kbps UL) because I'm on a Market 1 exchange (BT and no-one else).

 

[nath]

Ah, well that unlimited package is 3 quid more than my current BeThere package but looks good. I shall have to give it some thought. I don't seen anything about a FUP on that unlimited deal - do you know if they have one, Zenith?

 

[Zenith.UK]

Ah, well that unlimited package is 3 quid more than my current BeThere package but looks good. I shall have to give it some thought. I don't seen anything about a FUP on that unlimited deal - do you know if they have one, Zenith?

I've replied in PM nath.

 

[Madmaxx]

This would've have been so much easier if I could've kept the AOL connection going, since the phone line has been cancelled, you can't really get a broadband connection without an active phone line on a non-contract scheme. I'll just have to wait till someone decides to buy the house eventually and see where we go from there. Still have to decide which parent to live with, and that bad boy has been keeping me occupied for some time lol.