BT Line rental

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  1. Red

    Red-Taff. Well-Known Member

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    To date have paid 18 a month for line rental and for 24 hour access to internet.
    Also billed monthly for any calls made.

    Offered 219.00 for 12 months rental for next year - includes 24 hour internet access - and I pay extra for any calls made - to date about 40 a month.

    Is this reasonable? Thanks.
     
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    £219.84 is the standard price for 12 months advance line rental (12 months for price of 11 * £19.99)

    What's 24 hour internet access ? Is this an upgrade on your Broadband to BT Plus ?

    BT Plus is when your broadband goes down, they'll send you a Mini Hub out straight away at no extra cost. It's usually about £3.50 on top of your broadband. Another benefit of BT Plus is that they also double the data on your BT Mobile. I have 5 * BT mobile sims, each with 6gb of data. I took out the BT Plus a few months back as for £3.50, all 5 sims now have 12gb of data.

    https://www.bt.com/broadband/plus/#


    Line Rental Saver
    Pay up front by debit/credit card and get one month free off your standard line rental.


    Things you should know about Line Rental Saver
    • You'll receive e-billing and will be able to view your bill online
    • You must set up a Direct Debit to cover any call charges made throughout the year.
    • Your call charges will be billed monthly. This will start from your next bill.
    • Line Rental Saver is non-refundable
    • At the end of the year you'll lose your discount for monthly line rental unless you choose to pay up front again and renew your Line Rental Saver payment option.
     
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    I've finally ditched the BT line rental. TalkTalk have rolled out gigabit fibre internet in York so have someone coming today to complete the installation. 21 quid a month unlimited and no line rental
     
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    If you're paying £40 a month for calls you might want to look into a calling plan. I'm with BT and my plan costs £8 a month. Any calls to UK landline numbers are free (24/7), and calls to mobiles are about half the usual rate.

    It's always worth haggling with BT, especially when they start putting up their prices. You could also ask them to chuck in BT Sport for nothing - I didn't quite get that, but I did manage to get it down from £7 to £5 per month instead of their planned increase to £9 per month.
     
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    Mines shocking with bt infinity... rarely get anything above 8 meg.... and get charged loads for it. Often speeds drop below 1mbs.

    I’ve heard they’re rolling out virgin near me so...
     
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    That sounds a cracking deal. What are your speed estimates?
     
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    I have unlimited broadband and anytime calls with Plusnet. I pay £9 per month and a line rental saver of £197.88 for the year. My dad's on BT too. It must be the most over-priced tripe I've ever come across.
     
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    My current speed on superfast BT Broadband.... the Advert says it all!
     
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    That's hardly fair - do a wired speed test and see what you get.
     
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    Did it.... got only slightly higher. Have to use mobile data to even use this app!

    Whenever contact bt, they just want to know about which socket I have... if they looked they’d see it’s the latest one as their engineer “fixed” the slow speeds two weeks ago...
     
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    Also with BT - This is on wireless

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    **** the bed, do you live next to the exchange? I’m so jealous, stopped watching bt sport as it was just pixels or worse...
     
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    I’m about 1/2 mile from the exchange in Darton. That speed is also with 2 kids on their Xbox Live.
    I used to be with Virgin Media for about 15 years. Was Telewest. Was fine on 100mb then it went ****. Less than 1mb in an evening. Kept being told it would be fixed in 30 days and refunded a month. This went on for 10 months before I finally told them to stick it and moved to BT.
     
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    Check your sync rate - log into the router to do that. If that's still ****, plug the router into the master socket and try the sync rate again (throughput speed won't increase instantly)

    See master socket details at

    See also this video - different ISP but same principle
     
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    Cheers, I’ll give it a go...
     

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