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Claire Richardson |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 19:54 |
Yesh, thinking about it mate. Have had a number of problems with aol, but to give their support team credit, they've always bin able to sort it over the phone. | |
Kerry |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 19:11 |
if anything claire u are gaining by the fact IMO aol are rubbish :) | |
Claire Richardson |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 18:13 |
I'm gonna be changing my line rental from BT soon. | |
Dom |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 16:11 |
quote: yup richie is right :) if your getting ADSL, then you NEED a BT phoneline...no buts or anything you NEED one and pay rental for it (about 10 - 15 quid from BT i think a 1/4). Then ontop of that you have your ADSL isp supplier, 20-30 quid. So you will be paying 34 quid or something a month. Also NOTE that alot of isps only offer "wires" broadband, where you have to buy the modem and other bits. Otherwise you usually pay alot more for an ISP supplier with modem rental etc But you do also have a telephone line available, for calls etc :) If you live in a cabled area, then i would go with that, as you can get a BB connection for 25 quid (ntl 750k about the same for telewest/blueyonder) a month, and that includes your cable modem rental and is alot easier to add routers etc too and you wont have any redundant equipment after the upgrade :) But you dont have a phoneline, unlike ADSL BB. hope this helped mate :thumbs: | |
Ryan L |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 15:26 |
and wireless ones are about twice the price | |
sassyminx |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 15:22 |
well ive got one in front room and one in bedroom and signal is usually very good all the time :thumbs: | |
Ryan L |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 15:13 |
in my experience wireless routers are not as good as conventional cable ones, as my friend who lives in another house has set up a wireless network and they constantly have problems with the connection being lost and it cannot be recieved in loft either where they have had a conversion | |
Richie |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 14:37 |
Marv you need a phone line to recieve a broadband service, unless you go with cable. | |
sassyminx |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 14:34 |
get 3 wireless pci networking thingys | |
3CorsaMeal |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 14:25 |
just drill a hole in the skirting board and feed wire thru that and up the wall cavity :thumbs: | |
Ryan L |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 14:20 |
you don't need a BT phone line if you live in a NTL cable area, I have 750kbps connection with no phone line via NTL in my flat at uni | |
M2RTY |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 13:39 |
fuck so there is no way around it? not paying for a phoneline to be connected just so we can get broadband | |
Richie |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 13:30 |
no you do need the line to be installed first to place an order for broadband. They have to do the specific line quality/line loss tests on that line and to do the Pre E co with BT and shit. | |
Stuckey |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 13:29 |
i think blue yonder broadband give u free wireless network stuff, not sure | |
M2RTY |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 13:26 |
quote: i just want free equipment to link one PC for now was going down the wireless nertwork route but il probs have to change the modem to one with wireless router built in no?? also the net ones are asking for a BT fone number to check availability, am i being silly here but do we need a fone first in order to get broadband or are they asking this to check where we live for availability? cheers | |
Richie |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 13:24 |
You will want a router with NAT capabilites, but an ISP is unlikely to provide this hardware for free. | |
M2RTY |
posted on 12th Oct 04 at 13:23 |
ok i want UNLIMITED broadband from like 20-30 quid a month with the hardware free (sheffield s11 postcode if it matters) |