broadband

So I live in a village which is on the edge of the distance from the local exchange for broadband. If you receive it through the main house phone, which many do here, then you will be lucky to get 0.5mb download, plus it is very unstable. So to squeeze a little more down the pipe I had a second line installed here which is dedicated to broadband. Now that works pretty well, is very stable and I am generally able to get about 1mb download which is much better.

Tomorrow my ISP is switching from Orange to O2. Last time I switched to Orange over two years it went incredibly smoothly, such a difference from previous experiences. Over the past two years Orange have been god and reliable. So why the change? Simple it is much cheaper for the year than Orange. It was tempting to leave it where it is, why bother with the hassle of changing, but the fact it went smoothly last time I thought I would give it a go yet again.

I've been using a Vodafone 3G datacard for over a year now. I was paying £25+vat for 250mb download per month. Now that wasn't too bad as long as I was careful about what I did online. But sometimes it was slow, rarely got 3G and usually just ended up at 384k.

Well recently 3 have been advertising their new Broadband service on the radio. I took at look at the website, here, and the pricing of what you get is way much better. For £10 (inclusive of VAT) you get 1GB, £15 3GB and £25 7GB! After spending a bit of time reading the website I decided it was time to change.