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Are there any one month offers for FTTC as yet?
We will be moving shortly, the area we've picked is cabled, and that's what we'll be going with (if all goes through OK)
That comes with a 30 day guarantee, so if it's congested, then FTTC becomes an option. The property can get it. We could cancel cable outright.
However while cable puts up this offer, no FTTC ISPs appear to. Ideally, because of the 30 day cable timeframe and how long it normally takes to get a phone line set up, I'd order cable and FTTC together to be able to try them together.
If cable proves fine, we can cancel the FTTC.
If cable isn't fine then we don't have a delay while we wait for BT to get going. I cannot imagine ordering a phone line and broadband via BT and having it working fully in less than about five or six weeks without having to make lots of chasing phone calls and part project-manage the whole affair myself, it's never happened before.
Given my disastrous experience with broadband, I'm taking the cynical view that both might be poor, so I might have to pick the best of the two e.g. if I have 50 Meg cable and it's congested but runs at say 26 Meg bursting to 50 Meg that's probably preferable to a FTTC line which can't even achieve 26 Meg anyway. (Estimate is 20Meg)
And to see the two compared, I have to order them both and cancel one of them.
To try cable appears to cost nothing or near-as.
Looking at IDNET it's 12 months only so the cost to try is (is this really right??!!) approximately £1,097. I'm not sure if that includes the "telephone line", if not, that's another c. £85 as well.
I know I can cancel if the line doesn't manage the quoted 20Meg. Though I'd hoped it would do better especially if we find we need it. But a month to month would be cleaner and I don't want some row over "well, the broadband can be cancelled, but you're stuck with a landline for a year even though you don't posess a landline handset and never even wanted one".
This makes me think I should just go for the cable and hope, and if it is poor, then cancel and later look to the FTTC option, but it would leave us with a potential gap in service. But I think that's our only (sensibly affordable) option here.
We will be moving shortly, the area we've picked is cabled, and that's what we'll be going with (if all goes through OK)
That comes with a 30 day guarantee, so if it's congested, then FTTC becomes an option. The property can get it. We could cancel cable outright.
However while cable puts up this offer, no FTTC ISPs appear to. Ideally, because of the 30 day cable timeframe and how long it normally takes to get a phone line set up, I'd order cable and FTTC together to be able to try them together.
If cable proves fine, we can cancel the FTTC.
If cable isn't fine then we don't have a delay while we wait for BT to get going. I cannot imagine ordering a phone line and broadband via BT and having it working fully in less than about five or six weeks without having to make lots of chasing phone calls and part project-manage the whole affair myself, it's never happened before.
Given my disastrous experience with broadband, I'm taking the cynical view that both might be poor, so I might have to pick the best of the two e.g. if I have 50 Meg cable and it's congested but runs at say 26 Meg bursting to 50 Meg that's probably preferable to a FTTC line which can't even achieve 26 Meg anyway. (Estimate is 20Meg)
And to see the two compared, I have to order them both and cancel one of them.
To try cable appears to cost nothing or near-as.
Looking at IDNET it's 12 months only so the cost to try is (is this really right??!!) approximately £1,097. I'm not sure if that includes the "telephone line", if not, that's another c. £85 as well.
I know I can cancel if the line doesn't manage the quoted 20Meg. Though I'd hoped it would do better especially if we find we need it. But a month to month would be cleaner and I don't want some row over "well, the broadband can be cancelled, but you're stuck with a landline for a year even though you don't posess a landline handset and never even wanted one".
This makes me think I should just go for the cable and hope, and if it is poor, then cancel and later look to the FTTC option, but it would leave us with a potential gap in service. But I think that's our only (sensibly affordable) option here.























