Topic: Getting Internet Advice

[Kerou 犠牲]

Hey guys, just after a little bit of advice really since I'm pretty damn useless with this kind of thing

Now I'm looking at getting internet for my new place and I don't know what I actually need. I'd like it to be unlimited on the monthly usage but I don't know what I'd need in terms of speed or anything.

I'd really only use it for browsing, watching movies / Netflix and playing online with my console.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[Inferna]

I'd probably go on uswitch or one of those comparison websites and see what the cheapest company is in your area first and go from there. Speaking from personal experience I'd avoid talk talk. I think if you're in the right area Virgin can be pretty good?
My friend managed to haggle with sky and is just paying for his line rental at £17.50 but is also getting unlimited broadband and sky tv on top of that! Just price a few companies up and then see how much you can haggle.

[Kerou 犠牲]

Virgin do without line rental but it's not available in my area =[

[Del]

for what it's worth my personal experience with Sky were that speeds were pretty horrible, if more than one person was ever using the connection at a time it became almost unusable.

at home I have the Virgin 200 whatever package which on my Ethernet adaptor gave me 100/10 (down/up) (out of what I assume was 200/20 total for the whole house) and I never had any issues with it because that's a borderline excessive speed for the average user, but I see you can't get Virgin which is super unlucky.

I think like around 20~40 down would be enough for you if you'd be the only person using the connection so see if you can get something cheapish around those speeds, but also do a lot of reading up about each ISPs service in your area. Nothing worse than paying for x speed and then finding out no one in your area gets even half of that.

[Kerou 犠牲]

for what it's worth my personal experience with Sky were that speeds were pretty horrible, if more than one person was ever using the connection at a time it became almost unusable.

at home I have the Virgin 200 whatever package which on my Ethernet adaptor gave me 100/10 (down/up) (out of what I assume was 200/20 total for the whole house) and I never had any issues with it because that's a borderline excessive speed for the average user, but I see you can't get Virgin which is super unlucky.

I think like around 20~40 down would be enough for you if you'd be the only person using the connection so see if you can get something cheapish around those speeds, but also do a lot of reading up about each ISPs service in your area. Nothing worse than paying for x speed and then finding out no one in your area gets even half of that.

yeah it's looking like I'll probably have to go with BT after checking some of the options; I can get fibre with BT so I should be able to get good speeds with them, it's just quite expensive, that's all haha. I've got to get my ethernet socket checked first any way since it has an out of order sticker which isn't exactly the best news.

I might even ring BT and see if there's other deals I can get with them ^^;

[Milsap]

I'm with Utility Warehouse. My phone, internet and electric are all on one bill and it saves me a bit in the long run.