In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

I am with Sky LLU at the moment but I am thinking of going to BT for ADSL as they are likely to have infinity before Sky get round to installing the kit. Then it would be a toss up between PLusnet and Sky for fibre.

Around here sky seemed to be taking orders before Bt, which is strange. someone down the road tried to FTTc via Bt and Bt said it was not available, but we knew it was. so they tried with Sky and order was accepted.

But he now cancelled after changing his mind

Sounds like a plan!

One question. If you cancel Sky now, will you still be able to download everything you do now? Or is some of it only available because you are also on Sky?

Again, I would wait until the exchange is live, and check for your cabinet being live first. If there is no other way, you could get a monthly phone contract with the Post Office so you can check using the number.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Well i've been thinking about it and I am actually going to cancel my Broadband and landline for the time being.

Reason is that I get just over 5mbps down and 0.6mbps up. I pay £23 a month to sky for the broadband and phone. I never use the phone and I don't download much

I've been using a T-mobile sim on their £20 for a years worth of internet for the past 11 months. I get (at any time I've tested it on any day I always get 6mbps down and 5mbps up. So I have just bought another one for another year.

They never enforce the 500MB streaming policy and I watch all my soaps online through it with no problem (do about 6GB a month) I can Skype fine on it and also means that if I am doing something on my laptop and the power goes I don't lose my work or connection.

When fibre is near the live date ill go back to Sky. But for now I can save £23 a month which can then go towards fibre. As much as I love Sky moneys tight.. and I am out of contract.

Well I hope it all goes well, not sure if I would rely on mobile broadband to be honest, certainly not t-mobile.

I take it you don't have sky Tv multi room then? Because getting rid of your phone line would upset Sky.

Edited by deleted (Sun 07-Oct-12 17:03:16)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

This is £20 a YEAR mind. No usage limit I do 6GB a month and have done since the start.

Which T-mobile plan are you on please? Just looked on their website and could not see anything that cheap.

Cheers!

Edited by deleted (Mon 08-Oct-12 00:14:03)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

HI Adrian,

I know of people who will be relying solely on 4G when it comes out - and that's t-mobile. I get better speeds than 3 around here. The device I use was a 3 device but I unlocked it.

Strange how T-mobile wormed it's way into getting 4g before the others.
We will see how reliable 4G is when it gets going and have a lot of traffic on.

It's very reliable. Not dropped once according to the logs and the device has been on some 88 days.

You would not get reliable 3g around here, not from T-mobile anyway, their network is awful,

The problem is it is not really a decent solution,it is expensive and 4G will be as well and if you use it like people use their home broadband, to watch films on netfliks Iplayer, download music, watch You tube, then it will cost even more.


what is needed is some sort of wireless service that is cheaper, say like what I use or Vispa use.