I’ve been delegated to sort the internet for our uni house next term. Term starts 1st October and ends mid summer. All we need is internet no phone or tv.
Any good deals around?

Don’t bother with virgin, had a horrific time with them whilst at uni.

4G router?

Are you sure there isn’t any included in the deal ?
Lots of universities “insist” on landlords providing a specified level of pron internet bandwidth before they’ll endorse them

Virgin is your only choice for phone free.

Otherwise, Plusnet.

How would a 4g router work?

My parents are with plusnet can a deal be done for an extra house?

Whichever ISP you go with, go with a router that will divvy up the bandwidth equally amongst all the users, otherwise some sod with a BitTorrent addiction will soak it all up leaving you to enjoy your jerky YouTube and Iplayer videos.

If you can’t get cable you’ll need to get a phone line activated, even if you won’t use it. Most of the ISP’s I looked at also require a year long contact which is crap. I used to use BE Internet who were generally great and offered shorter terms (but were more expensive monthly). They got bought out by someone, but not sure who.

Virgin would be my choice if you can get cable. I had no problems with them other than the occasional outage which was always fixed pretty quickly. No idea if they do shorter term/month to month contracts though.

Zen offer short month-by-month contracts and are very highly rated – but a bit pricey compared plus.net and the like.

4g router works just like a normal router but instead of a wired connection to the internet uses a cellular connection using a mobile phone network and a data only SIM.

The amount of data we went through at uni was obscene. 4g would have been a nightmare.

We had great service from virgin over 2 years we had just the one outage.

Russell96 makes a good point _ what ever you do, lock down individual users to thier own useage….we had one lad in a shared staff house at work who was surprised when complaints were made that he was running his own gaming server of some kind, chewing through valuable bandwidth and volume of capped satelite broadband.

He was running a gaming server on satellite broadband? What was he playing, chess?

Indeed … whatever you go for make sure the data is unlimited. I guess the difficulty is finding a provider who will do less than a 12 month contract.

He was running a gaming server on satellite broadband? What was he playing, chess?

I suspect Octopron, but more likely some RPG game or other…

Problem is most fiber deals seem to be 18 month contract.

I seem to remember plusnet had month by month contracts

Prepare to pay an installation fee though

Plusnet seem to charge the remaining months if you end early.