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O/T which is the best Broadband and Phone service to go with in the UK - basic household use and long distance calling?

this might help you a bit

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/cheap-broadband

Broadband

I have the Sky basic package. £5 a month for 2mb

Which sounds shit til you remember its all ANYONE pigging gets anyway.

Tales of 10mb broadband are fanciful, so unless you're running a pirate DVD operation I'd suspect that would fine.

Phone, if you take Sky Talktime, you get the above free.

Virgin but only with Broadband and then you can get a eurovox which allows you to get all the sky channels for free for ever!!!.

Virgin - how much for this pack, that's TV too obviously?

I get my broadband (basic 2mb) and sky talk for free with my sky tv package.

It's not particularly fast but I have never had any problems and the wireless connection works really well. I used to have Tiscali before that and encountered a few problems with my speed dropping quite a lot at peak times.

I have Virgin Broadband - 20mb and its very reliable (£22 pm).

Also I use Vonage UK (internet phone service) which is sooooo much cheaper than your Talk Talk, BT, Virgin etc....free UK National calls and feee calls to 25 EU countris, all for £6. Not too bad :)

Cable TV, enquired with Virgin, as an existing customer and for basic channels, no sports, it would be a further £9 ( plus a £30 connection charge. With all the Sports channels it would cost £19 pm).

Havent decide to take up their offer, yet lol.

jimglen wrote:Virgin - how much for this pack, that's TV too obviously?

Dont get the TV get the Eurovox of the internet and its easy to set-up and then u get all the channles for 3!!!

teddy007 wrote:Virgin but only with Broadband and then you can get a eurovox which allows you to get all the sky channels for free for ever!!!.

*cough* 8) *cough*

I do not know too much about the different providers, but I know its an absolute bastard when you are waiting ages to log onto a site!

Whatever is the fastest is one of the things I'd want to know!

i get Virgin 10Mn broadband with Phone ( free Weekend calls ) and BAsic Tv for 22 p/m

i tried to cancell the phone though but this means my Internet charge would go up
due to loss of discounts

jimglen wrote:O/T which is the best Broadband and Phone service to go with in the UK - basic household use and long distance calling?

If you really want to watch free Sports, visit this website:

http://www.myp2p.eu/index.php?part=sports

Download the relevant software for whatever sporting event you want to watch and If you dont mind watching Mayweather - MArquez in Japanese, German or some other language, do that (as I will).

It's free!

Not sure if your internet connection will have an impact though, as my connection speed is pretty good.

AOL free laptop free landline calls the best broadband i have ever had all for £25

You're all barking up the wrong tree.

Best Broadband, fast.co.uk - no shaping, no choking your bandwidth, totally unrestricted, brilliant customer support, and downloads 1 gig of porn in about 5 minutes.

DavidPayne wrote:Broadband

I have the Sky basic package. £5 a month for 2mb

Which sounds poop til you remember its all ANYONE pigging gets anyway.

Tales of 10mb broadband are fanciful, so unless you're running a pirate DVD operation I'd suspect that would fine.

Phone, if you take Sky Talktime, you get the above free.

Nonsense - I get 4gb regularly. The thing is companies like Sky don't have the bandwidth to support their users, you need to go to a dedicated broadband company who do nothing but.

I'm on Virgin Cable Broadband, and my download speed is currently 9,632 Kbps.

Edit: According to this: http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/

Asterix wrote:I'm on Virgin Cable Broadband, and my download speed is currently 9,632 Kbps.

Edit: According to this: http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/

My maximum is 8 I think, but that works out as more than 8000,000 bytes as i recall.

Virgin - Phone, TV, Broadband £28.95

45 channel basic TV
Unlimited UK calls 24/7, discounted on iternational under 3p per/min and mobiles 33% off
Broadband 2mb

I've agreed with that, can I add to that any for FREE?

Im on 20mb Virgin broadband.

It usually hovers between 9mb and 15mb.

I get the TV package too, but the picture is absolutely appalling. Almost like watching a stream.

Sky has by far the best TV picture. I had them running side by side to the Virgin engineer and he agreed that it mopped the floor with Virgin's picture quality.

Orange wireless - free with Orange mobile, does me. (When it decides to fornicating work! )

bethere.co.uk is supposed to be very good if your into downloading that is. For basic browsing and what not, most services are ok now. If your really into downloading get a cheap internet connection and then get a seedbox. A good seedbox will blow your head off.

Virgin 10mb package.