eenoo Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 What is the best broadband in Shetland? We currently have BT on option 2 but coming close to our monthly useage each month. I was thinking of upgrading but what is the best value for unlimited broadband in Lerwick? We have sky but appently they cant provide us a better deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairyian Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 What is the best broadband in Shetland? We currently have BT on option 2 but coming close to our monthly useage each month. I was thinking of upgrading but what is the best value for unlimited broadband in Lerwick? We have sky but appently they cant provide us a better deal. Sky can only do unlimited on their own network, which they don't have in Shetland. The only outfit that can realisticly and affordbaly do unlimited on BT network is BT The rule of thumb is : Cheap / Fast / Reliable - pick any two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 The Post Office are offering phone and unlimited broadband for £26.05/month at the moment, all in. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/home-phone-broadband/home-phone-broadband-extra/details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eenoo Posted June 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 The Post Office are offering phone and unlimited broadband for £26.05/month at the moment, all in. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/home-phone-broadband/home-phone-broadband-extra/details Would that be line rental included? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Yep, but it's still BT that handle any faults, so you end up feeling like you're banging your head against a brickwall, had a friend who's phoneline stopped working after the council did some work in her block of flats, she couldn't get anyone to agree to deal with the problem so ended up getting Talktalk to stick in a free fibre-optic line instead (unfortunately not an option in shetland, not that I'd advise anyone to use talktalk) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 The Post Office are offering phone and unlimited broadband for £26.05/month at the moment, all in. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/home-phone-broadband/home-phone-broadband-extra/details Would that be line rental included? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairyian Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 The Post Office are offering phone and unlimited broadband for £26.05/month at the moment, all in. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/home-phone-broadband/home-phone-broadband-extra/details Would that be line rental included? Yes. But note Post Offce have a very clear Fair Use Policy that points out that 'unlimited' accounts will penalised if 100 GB a month is exceeded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 The Post Office are offering phone and unlimited broadband for £26.05/month at the moment, all in. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/home-phone-broadband/home-phone-broadband-extra/details Would that be line rental included? Yes. But note Post Offce have a very clear Fair Use Policy that points out that 'unlimited' accounts will penalised if 100 GB a month is exceeded. I've been looking for an alternative broadband supplier recently, and all the unlimited packages I've looked at have a similar fair-use policy with a 100Gb/month limit. It seems to be pretty standard across the industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanKZ Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 100GB/month is more than enough for most people. For myself? No way. Streaming HD movies and downloading games on Steam can push me into the hundreds within the first week of a month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlin13 Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 I note the topic here was "best" broadband. I would expect that would cover up/download speeds, availability, customer service etc. Value for money may well be an included factor but there is an old adage you get what you pay for !The current prices on offer from many providers are totally unsustainable.If we rely on BT we wil never get good broadband(relatively speaking) the best option is to support the Shetland Telecoms guys to get us a full fibre network, it may well cost more but it will be a LOT better than we can get from current setup with BT.But what about HIE i hear you say, and their promise of 30MB by 2020. By then it will be the equivalent of using bean tins and string....For the longer term it is not about doing current things faster so much as being able to do new things and offer new services and for that we need fibre !!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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