[HLUG] Broadband Fees

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Hi Chris,

I have read articles in consumer sections of press that do not give
TalkTalk Broadband as very worthwhile. You should know that they will
connect their own broadband router at the exchange (not use BT) and if
you decide to cancel after initial period, I believe there is a charge
of £70. The £10 pm charge for broadband not available in your area puts
the cost up quite badly.

You might want to consider getting broadband from Clara, or at least
check out the cost. Also Clara use BT equipment which is well
established and works well. I wanted to keep my email address and ISP
(Demon), so looked at their cost. It is about £12 pm for ISP only and
about £25 for ISP with broadband. At the time this was comparable or
better than keeping my ISP and getting broadband elsewhere, so I took
it.

Hope this is helpful, or at least makes you look very carefully before
deciding.

Regards

Gordon.


On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:45 +0100, Chris Owens wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
>     Q1. Have been tempted by the TalkTalk offer but they say the 'Free' 
> Broadband isn't available in Tenbury and want to charge £10/m in 
> addition to the basic £9.99/m. If I were to sign up to this am I right 
> in assuming I would also have to pay £16/m to Clara.net for their 
> Broadband service (currently I use their free dial-up on an 0845 number) 
> i.e.£35.99/m.
> 
>     Q2. TalkTalk say the host machine should have Windows ME, 2000, XP 
> etc. Does that mean what it says or can one use some kind of 'Emulator' 
> possibility to enable a Linux based system to function.
> 
> Sorry to be so thick.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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