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DOes anyone know how you can ask for broadband in your are? Does anyone no the cheapest place to get styalite broadband? that includes setup fee? Any info would be helpfull. Thanks in advance.
BT has a rather good offer on setting up broadband at the moment, so while they may not offer the greatest service possible (though I've not had any major problems yet) it is worth giving them a look. Because set-up costs are fairly high for broadband.
If you're happy to install the gear yourself then you can usually get the price down a lot, as paying for an engineer to come and plug in a modem is an expensive and largely pointless exercise. You need to check that you have a free USB slot for the modem and that's basically all you need to do on the PC specs side.
If you can't get BT or Pipex in your area then it's also worth considering cable, as you shouldn't have too much problem getting thes unless you really do live in the middle of nowhere. Best bet for cable is NTL or Blueyonder, but a major problem is that they rope you into buying additional services, such as a telewest/NTL phoneline, or NTL cable TV. Now that's fine if you want digital TV and don't have it yet, but if you've already got it you're looking at a second phoneline, jacking the price up by £15 per month.
Cheapest to get is Pipex, but that means buying your own modem
Second best is BT, which isn't too bad, though it's worth checking a broadband ratings site that I can't remember (but I'm sure someone else know the one I mean) to see how they perform in your area. I live in Warwickshire and I connect at 576kb/s and get downloads of 60+kb/s which is fairly good. But as more people get broadband that speed will fall, because of something called a contention ratio. Basically this means that for every x number people who subscribe there's 1 modem in the telephone exchange. For BT it's 50:1, I think, which means that as that number fills up my speed will start dropping. Same goes for NTL though, as I know a guy who got cable so early that the engineer who came to set it up said he was the first person to get to install cable in the area, and this guy was getting downloads of 100kb/s + but this decreased as more people subscribed.
Hope that's of some help to you.
If you're happy to install the gear yourself then you can usually get the price down a lot, as paying for an engineer to come and plug in a modem is an expensive and largely pointless exercise. You need to check that you have a free USB slot for the modem and that's basically all you need to do on the PC specs side.
If you can't get BT or Pipex in your area then it's also worth considering cable, as you shouldn't have too much problem getting thes unless you really do live in the middle of nowhere. Best bet for cable is NTL or Blueyonder, but a major problem is that they rope you into buying additional services, such as a telewest/NTL phoneline, or NTL cable TV. Now that's fine if you want digital TV and don't have it yet, but if you've already got it you're looking at a second phoneline, jacking the price up by £15 per month.
Cheapest to get is Pipex, but that means buying your own modem
Second best is BT, which isn't too bad, though it's worth checking a broadband ratings site that I can't remember (but I'm sure someone else know the one I mean) to see how they perform in your area. I live in Warwickshire and I connect at 576kb/s and get downloads of 60+kb/s which is fairly good. But as more people get broadband that speed will fall, because of something called a contention ratio. Basically this means that for every x number people who subscribe there's 1 modem in the telephone exchange. For BT it's 50:1, I think, which means that as that number fills up my speed will start dropping. Same goes for NTL though, as I know a guy who got cable so early that the engineer who came to set it up said he was the first person to get to install cable in the area, and this guy was getting downloads of 100kb/s + but this decreased as more people subscribed.
Hope that's of some help to you.
I think it's 5km nows, now sure, but the postcode checker will tell you if your within the area. If that says your not, then your not.
Cheers. Much appreciated, do you no if they have discovered a breakthrough so you dont have to be within 3km of a bt place thingy? So i odnt have to get satelite. cheers in advance.
www.tiscali.co.uk
They are the only peopl I know who do Sattalite internet.
http://www.xtreme.pipex.net/cgi-bin/adsl/isavail/ to see if you can get ADSL via your BT Line (if you have BT).
They are the only peopl I know who do Sattalite internet.
http://www.xtreme.pipex.net/cgi-bin/adsl/isavail/ to see if you can get ADSL via your BT Line (if you have BT).
DOes anyone know how you can ask for broadband in your are? Does anyone no the cheapest place to get styalite broadband? that includes setup fee? Any info would be helpfull. Thanks in advance.