[Gllug] Broadand in London without phone land line

[Martin]

On 03/11/10 10:37, Lucian wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Richard LEGER<richard.leger at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> I am considering Virgin Media Broadband 10Mo package via Optic Fiber to home
>> which seems the cheaper deal with quite a sufficient bandwidth for home
>> usage.
>> I was wondering what you think about Virgin as broadband supplier or if you
>> would recommend a better supplier in London offering better deal for
>> connecting a flat to Internet where there is no land line (so no adsl
>> access).
>> I have tried 3G connection (from three.co.uk) but it is not working very
>> well and is limited in quantity and services.
>> There is no need for phone line as VoIP is used instead.
>> Recently someone mentionned he use https://www.bethere.co.uk unfortunately
>> such service require BT land line.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any advice or Internet reference you may have on
>> this question.
>> If you feel bother by this message simply ignore it ;-)
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
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> Imho, the only real ISP in London is BE (bethere.co.uk). And even with
> them you might not get a quality connection because of the old
> infrastructure, but at least they're trying.
> The rest are just, well, living in another world, severe capping (at
> times) and ridiculous upload speeds (always). UK is lagging with about
> 10 years behind (some parts of) Europe when it comes to internet
> quality, unfortunately...

I must agree with upload speeds. I used to run an ftp server from my 
computer for
a few weeks but it really was a joke so I gave up.

regards
Martin
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