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[kingandy]

Quick quick update!

We now have a flat of our own and almost all our stuff out of Vince & Katy's house. The PC will likely be the next to go hence the quick quick update. We has no internets at the new place! Rather than a cable/satellite package we're thinking of Freeview and ADSL. Who can tell me about ADSL? I gather you need a pre-existing phone line...

Will follow this up with a protected entry with address details, but don't post anything yet because we don't have a key for the mailbox. (There are one or two kinks to work out with the letting agency...)

Comments

[looby-lu.livejournal.com]

You will need an active phone line (this will likely mean paying 10 quid a month line rental to someone) for ADSL.

ThinkBroadband (used to be ADSLGuide) has several good guides and FAQs and lets you compare different providers:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/broadband.html

We have Virgin cable at the moment so I can't really give any recommendations, although I think PlusNet are okay and Eclipse always used to be.

[invisible-al.livejournal.com]

www.samknows.com will tell you what's available at your exchange. If you want a 20 meg connection you'll need to go with BE or an Entanet reseller like Aquiss.

If you're happy with 8 meg, then get a BT line and you can use any ADSL supplier or the LLUs. Plusnet has a good rep I've seen.

[samharber.livejournal.com]

Zen is very good, offering a monthly renewal, but a) is expensive and b) requires a BT line.

We're on Tesco.net and apart from being tied in to a 12 month contract have been trouble free. Obviously this means that we've no idea what the helpline is like.

[redhillian.livejournal.com]

I used to be on tesco.net - and they were indeed very good - the one time I needed them the helpline was good and fast as well.

I'm now on 8meg virgin, over a BT line - pretty stable (although peer-to-peer, including BBC iplayer is throttled at prime time). Came with a free wireless router as well. This is due to them being both cheaper and offering a faster connection.