you'll want to keep that telephone landline if you want broadband internet access. regardless of whether you use it for phonecalls.



Considering Ice will be a foreign national working in the public sector, that would be a really, really bad idea.

Haha, I agree with you, U-96! I don't want to be dodging the law as a way to start my "new life."

That Council Tax seems to be a doozy for the moment. I gotta remember that the next time my group meets for "orientation."

Vitesse, I doubt I or any of my pals will be the "lead tenant," since the hospital will be the one to rent it for us (we'll just arrive one day and be directed to our housing assignments, AFAIK), so I'm hoping the tax won't be as much for us.

I just re-read this thread and bumping up this question:
How much does internet cost and what speeds are you getting for that price?


I got a call a few days ago informing me that the NMC already has my Decision Letter. Now all I gotta wait for is the employer's OH and CoS, then it's off to the UK Embassy for me. It seems that the January deployment date is close to a reality.

If going to the UK don't forget your 'brolly.

it's very variable depending upon where you live, what ISPs are available there & what sort of package that you want.

from an ADSL pov O2/Be are pretty good (assuming that the local exchange is local Loop Unbundled) - upto 20meg download for £15/month (on O2 £5/month less if you have a mobile 'phone on O2 as well)

www.transportdirect.info for public transport - it'll plan a route for you and give links and timetables for all the providers

Buff, what is "pov O2/Be," "local Loop Unbundled," and "O2"?

pov=Point of view; O2 and Be are ISP companies here (I think that originally O2 started as a mobile phone provider);

Local Loop Unbundling is basically allowing other telcos to use the same infrastructure which, over in the UK, is all technically owned by BT; LLU in Wikipedia.

Go with Virgin. Dedicated fibre optic cable no phone lines with crappy speeds.

Is that fibre to the exchange or fibre to the home? I think that you'd have to be quite lucky to be in a place where they roll that out as well. Where I am in London, we have a distinct disadvantage in that we're 4km from the nearest telephone exchange, which pretty much screws us in up/down speeds because of line noise. (That and that my brother isn't considering capped packages because he needs his webserver for work).