Highest Rated Broadband Packages
Broadband Your Way
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Broadband only from £9.99 pm. Service includes 8MB Broadband
BT Option 2
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Broadband telephone from £10.99 pm. Service includes 8MB Broadband
Home Broadband Standard
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Broadband only from £7.50 pm. Service includes 8MB Broadband
Sky TV Broadband Mid and Freetime Talk
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Broadband telephone and television from £21.00 pm. Service includes 8MB Broadband
Vodafone Mobile Broadband
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Broadband only from £15.00 pm. Service includes Mobile Broadband
What are your options?
Since you first had broadband, both you and your broadband options have evolved.
Faster surfing
If you've had broadband for two years or more then you should look to upgrade to at least an 8MB service or faster such as 16MB or 24MB.
Useful features
BT are offering free 5GB secure online storage (BT Digital Vault) with their each of their broadband packages. This is a great option to ensure that you have a backup copy of your favourite photos, videos or any other important digital document. Most people do not backup such files and run the risk of losing them due to hardware failure, theft, flood or fire.
Uploading video or images to websites
However, if you upload large files such as video or high res photos regularly, then look for broadband packages (e.g. be or O2) that offer upload speeds of 5x or more than the standard 256Kbs.
be offer a good upload speeds combined with fast web surfing e.g. be unlimited at 1.3Mbs or be pro at 2.5Mbs, with both packages offering blistering download speeds of 24MB.
Sky, the digital TV service provider, is our broadband star buy for 6 reasons:
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Lower monthly bills
Looking for lower costs then consider packages that incorporate telephone or television. Tiscali offer a great package that would save the annual cost of renting your telephone line from BT - saving approximately £120 per year. Surprisingly, mobile broadband could actually reduce your overall monthly costs if you decide not to have a fixed land line, again saving you the £11 monthly line rental.
, the mobile phone operator, have an excellent offer for those that have an O2 mobile phone. For just £7.50 per month (£12.50 for non O2 mobile phone users) you can get an 8Mb connection speed broadband with unlimited downloads. More information on O2 offers
Alternatively, get Sky digital TV, unlimited broadband and free weekend UK and international calls from just £16 per month. You get a choice of film options such as kids, knowledge, variety and style & culture channels or add on their Sky Movies or Sky Sports channels.
Mobile broadband
Finally, if you are considering a mobile broadband connection instead of a fixed line or as an additional connection the winner in terms of value for money and service, in our opinion, is Vodafone's Mobile Broadband package at £15 per month for vodafone customers that comes with a 3GB download monthly allowance and speeds of up to 7.2Mbs
Wireless broadband
However, if you are simply looking for wireless broadband then you need to connect a wireless router to your broadband enabled telephone socket (free with many packages) or are you searching for mobile broadband?
