harrycatcat1 Posted July 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2023 (edited) Decision made 👌 well for 12 months anyway. Phoned my landline provider as I couldn't be bothered with the hassle and they offered 63mb + landline for £22 per month saving 14 plus quid per month. Some of the router only deals were 20 quid so it's sorted i know its not got rid of the landline but I'mhappy with the outcome. Thanks for everyone's advice and help 🙏 Edited to say it was also the concern that the mobile phone WiFi wouldn't work the amazon stick. Edited July 24, 2023 by harrycatcat1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udderlyoffroad Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 15 hours ago, harrycatcat1 said: Decision made 👌 well for 12 months anyway. That's probably a good outcome...you might find in 12mths time you'll be able to have fibre to your place so the incentive to ditch the landline will be even more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 19 hours ago, udderlyoffroad said: So let me see if I've got this straight; you ditched your landline due to nuisance calls, but you want your number to be publicly listed? My google fu is coming up a negative on that one, or at least no information from this decade. Short answer to that one is, if a business thinks me still having an unnecessary expense makes me a worse credit risk, then I don't particularly want to do business with them anyway. Get plenty nuisance calls on unlisted mobile . Would nuicance land line calls have anything to do with number being in directory? dnt know for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted July 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 48 minutes ago, udderlyoffroad said: That's probably a good outcome...you might find in 12mths time you'll be able to have fibre to your place so the incentive to ditch the landline will be even more... 👍Well also my sister in law is nearly 80 and she rings my wife daily on the landline so that was a consideration too. Thanks again 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted July 27, 2023 Report Share Posted July 27, 2023 We got rid of our landlines several years back. Our WiFi now comes via 4G and works reliably pretty well most of the time. Certainly better than our old phone based WiFi which was always a problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmicblue Posted July 27, 2023 Report Share Posted July 27, 2023 We binned the landline with a phone attached to it about 10 years ago, wrote something to say we were no longer on landline and our mobiles were xx and xx in Christmas cards for a couple of years and that was the end of it. Live in a town and have expensive high 900 m/bit BT Full Fibre broadband without a telephone attached to it - needed the high-bandwidth/low latency for IT work stuff originally (and could claim it on expenses) but retired back in Feb of this year - fairly pointless now. BT are on a mission to get shot of all of the copper lines and have everyone on some kind of fibre service - the target was 2025 but I think that has slipped. When one travels globally it is interesting to note that some countries don't have the GPO/British Telecom legacy we have where wires are strung between poles or buried in the ground for broadband provision but went straight to 4G/5G mobile tech from day one. One, sometimes overlooked, element of acquiring a broadband service provider is that of 'latency', this is how long a 'packet' of data takes to do a round trip, from your mobile or PC device to service you are accessing and back again, measured in milliseconds. When computing devices communicate with each other they send these 'packets of data' and wait for a message to say it has been received complete/or not. Ideally you want 20ms or less if you use your internet connection for gaming and perhaps 100ms for movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph5172 Posted July 28, 2023 Report Share Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) New houses round here do not have a copper landline it’s all fibre, there are no traditional phone sockets. ours has them fitted to every room aside from the bathroom and kitchen and they are all redundant but are cabled in. It’s too much faf to get them filled in mind. All calls are made via the router onto fibre (until it goes down randomly one would assume) on a side note we have a Netflix profile set up to the lowest quality we use for streaming via our phone network when away, each hour of film is about 300mb, in auto or top quality it’s about 3gb!! Edited July 28, 2023 by ph5172 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted July 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2023 9 hours ago, Cosmicblue said: We binned the landline with a phone attached to it about 10 years ago, wrote something to say we were no longer on landline and our mobiles were xx and xx in Christmas cards for a couple of years and that was the end of it. Live in a town and have expensive high 900 m/bit BT Full Fibre broadband without a telephone attached to it - needed the high-bandwidth/low latency for IT work stuff originally (and could claim it on expenses) but retired back in Feb of this year - fairly pointless now. BT are on a mission to get shot of all of the copper lines and have everyone on some kind of fibre service - the target was 2025 but I think that has slipped. When one travels globally it is interesting to note that some countries don't have the GPO/British Telecom legacy we have where wires are strung between poles or buried in the ground for broadband provision but went straight to 4G/5G mobile tech from day one. One, sometimes overlooked, element of acquiring a broadband service provider is that of 'latency', this is how long a 'packet' of data takes to do a round trip, from your mobile or PC device to service you are accessing and back again, measured in milliseconds. When computing devices communicate with each other they send these 'packets of data' and wait for a message to say it has been received complete/or not. Ideally you want 20ms or less if you use your internet connection for gaming and perhaps 100ms for movies. This is about the best we can get around here and it works for Netflix n stuff for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted July 28, 2023 Report Share Posted July 28, 2023 We are less than 15m from the green box where fibre ends but are told "at least 2025 before fttp is available" and Internet drops out at least once a day. Moibile signal is iffy at best despite line of sight to 2 masts in winter months. Old style cable is the only option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 On 24/07/2023 at 12:49, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, I have broadband only with shell, less than £20 a month Forget Shell, they just charged me for cost of router I returned on the 11/07/2023,with prepaid return address and received on the 17/07/2023, I have complained 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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