FOAK: Birdband

I've had my annual call from BT Broadband tonight, trying to get me to sign
up for another 12 months.

Normally I just say "Yeah, right fine" to whatever they're offering me and
stay with them for another year, but this time they were trying to tempt me
with a free BT Vision box with installation, which is **** all good to me
(Sky already in, HD DVD recorder and Sky+ on the way).

Anyway, BT Vision thing aside (you get 12 months of free Sultana sports -
great, I don't watch sports) they want to pump me for £19/month, which seems
a bit high for this day and age. OTOH I've never had any problems with it
in 5 years of using it, I even managed to get the crappy HomeHub they sent
me 2 years ago working to a respectable standard.

So, who should I be giving my porn-pipeline money to? Let the mong fight
commence.

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AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas)
Aprilia RSV-1000R, Honda VFR750F-L
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Anyone but BT imo. How about Sky, especially if they've got their kit
in your exchange (which makes it very cheap)?

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Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

Are yoiu on a sky enabled exchange?

 

**** nose.

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AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas)
Aprilia RSV-1000R, Honda VFR750F-L
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php will tell you the LLU
options

 

O2/Be broadband seem to win a lot of customer service etc. awards and
I've been with O2 broadband for 6 months now, problem free.

£7.34 a month for O2 customers or £12.23 for non customers for up to
8meg. £9.78/£14.68 for 20 meg.

 

Fine if O2/Be is one of the LLU options. Otherwise, O2's Home Access
broadband is probably best avoided.

Seeing as I'm here, I'll suggest IDNet as usual.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine

<waves>

Good call.

 

Only 4Mb !

You need cable mate

 

Indeed. 18M here on a nominal 20M pipe.

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I'm being pikey and waiting for my free upgrade