OK, so I am moving house in a couple of weeks. The house has no telephone line, for which I don't care but I need broadband, so I need a telephone line.
So far only BT and NTL support the area (aberystwyth wales) from what I know (searched wanadoo, tiscali, telewest). BT packages are a joke. With limitations of 1 to 3 GBs per month...and the only good ones are priced at 27 and 29 pounds for 2MBit connection with 15 and 30 GBs limit per month. Plus the min 10.50 or somethign for phone line, plus 75 initial cost for isntalling the line.
So, I said, screw them I will try to get NTL. They have the freedom packages with only 512K but with unlimited eh limits, so that is good! They also have a package for 16.99 that includes this broadband together with a phone line rental! So I was all set, went through the online thingy and then it asked me for my BT line number... So, I called NTL (about 5 min ago) and asked them WTF is going on. Apparently I need to have a BT line installed (and thus contract with them for 12 months), to get the phone line from NTL, which means another 16.99 in addition to the 10.50 per month, plus the 75 for installing the line. FFS!
Does any of you know of any other broadband providers that support the area that do not have such stupid limitations?
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Do you have Vodafone there?

Vodafone are mobile only in the UK at the minute.

That seems a little odd, I have ntl and they didn't need a BT line - they shouldn't need one for cable broadband, but one is needed for DSL, which may be what they're offering you, in which case various providers should be able to do it.

Do telewest not cover as far over as Aberystwyth?

I'm on http://www.plus.net , I think Talon is too. It's very fast and reliable without any limits, you should check it out.

There is Vodafone in the UK, but as far as I know they do not have any helpful packages ?

Telewest does not support Aber. :-(

NTL would be great if I could get the cable packages but unfortunately they do have cable in Aber. They only have what they call Freedom packages. Which is basicaly phone and dial up or broadband (512k max) connections....

Plusnet looks very good, though I would still need to have a BT line, but they look very very good I agree. I sent a message to them and asked them if they support the area, no replies yet.

i have no download limit on my 56k dialup!

the main drawback for me is all broadband available to me REQUIRES 12 month contract.
thats not acceptable.

Plusnet's contracts are one month (mine is anyway)

Vodafone should offer broadband soon.
I work for Vodafone Iceland, we have mobile, home telephone and internet service.

Most contracts are 12 months then monthly after that, particulalry anything where they provide the hardware/installation - it's like a deposit.

I received a reply from plusnet about an hour or so ago. They told me to check if I am at an adsl available area, and if the answer is yes then it should be ok. I did and I am, so I will make a few phone calls tomorrow to be 100% sure. So far it looks like they are by far the best. 14.99, cheaper than all the rest and at 2mbits speed and without any limitations, that is very surprising now days here.
Do you have any limitations Havell? How is the connection and do you have any complains about them ?

There are no transfer limits, nor have I ever experienced any downtime or bulls**t from customer services. Overall an exceptionally good ISP, at least in my area (I have two friends with Plusnet in my area, they are as full of praise about it as I am).

:kosta: Plusnet :kosta:

Thank you for the info. Though Aber is not exactly Coventry in terms of broadband availability, it looks like this plusnet is the thing. I will let you know if I have any updates. It just sounds too good to be true.

that does sound cheap with no limits - i'm paying ?24.99 (i think) for 2mbit, and i'm not sure how much of an improvement it is on the 750k i had before. it's certainly worse for gaming through the modem than the set-top box i had before...

cool

in new zealand where i live we xtra (telecom phone provider internet)
has 12 month conract with free modem istaltion the goverment foreced them since they owned the phone line to allow other companys to setup broadbund and we have xtras think jetsrteam cheapest paqage 256kb/s 1 gb tranfure but over in nz that is the slowist paquake and some companys offer 128kb/s internet calling it high speed but it does not say it is broundbunf but people think it is

i like vodaphone

Although I work for Vodafone, they arent my ISP at home.

Our adsl, home phone and most of our cell phones are registred at the other company.
We have, if I remember correctly, 750mb limits on our internet. Doesn't really bother me, I use my neighbour's wireless net to download :ph34r:

Vodafone has an offer for people that have the home phone, internet and at least one mobile phone registred with us.
They get 60 free minutes a day from cell phone to the home phone, 60 free minutes from home phone to another home phone or the cell phones registred on them, 120 free minutes from any phone to a home phone in another country.
They get unlimited downloading

Etc etc.

Kinda neat deal!!

sounds good

750mb limit is crazy. i could leech a lot more than that on my dialup every month. so what would the point be of broadband?!

1gb and up is deciet in nz

Oh, I forgot to mention. It's 750mb from other countries. I can download free from Icelandic sites and Icelandic hubs and such ;)

But like I said, doesn't matter for me :bleh:

Anyways, I hated the speed of the dialup. Took ages. Now I've got a faster connection, and don't have to wait for ages for Abandonia, for example, to load ;)