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Title: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: Debs. on 23 February 2009, 19:59:11
Q for any BT bods:
My elderly farming-neigbours have a BT 'business telephone line' in their house; I`ve been trying to order them BT total broadband online to get the free home hub/3 month discount etc.....We are in "Market 1" hereabouts (so, no LLU competition) I`ve discovered that only BT business-broadband is available to business `phone line customers and that`s at £15 pcm +VAT and no discounts or free hub etc. :(

The BT business-hub router is £79 +VAT!  :o .....but, I have an old/spare 1.5 BT home hub going spare here: would it work with the business broadband; `its only an ethernet/WiFi router after all. ::)
Title: Re: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: TheBoy on 23 February 2009, 20:17:11
Should work.  Why don't they just get consumer broadband?
Title: Re: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: Debs. on 23 February 2009, 20:27:35
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Should work.  Why don't they just get consumer broadband?

Do you mean Tiscali/Eclipse/Plusnet/O2 etc., selling B.T Wholesale product?.....I have checked, but they all say no service possible on that line/postcode......only seems to return B.T (at a suggested 6 MB) on the BB finder services.:-?
Title: Re: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 23 February 2009, 20:28:58
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Should work.  Why don't they just get consumer broadband?

Do you mean Tiscali/Eclipse/Plusnet/O2 etc., selling B.T Wholesale product?.....I have checked, but they all say no service possible on that line/postcode......only seems to return B.T (at a suggested 6 MB) on the BB finder services.:-?


Cant they cancel the buisness broadband and get BT consumer.....or is it ISDN?
Title: Re: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: Debs. on 23 February 2009, 20:33:59
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Should work.  Why don't they just get consumer broadband?

Do you mean Tiscali/Eclipse/Plusnet/O2 etc., selling B.T Wholesale product?.....I have checked, but they all say no service possible on that line/postcode......only seems to return B.T (at a suggested 6 MB) on the BB finder services.:-?


Cant they cancel the buisness broadband and get BT consumer.....or is it ISDN?

They don`t have Broadband at all yet; just a business ph. line....B.T wont sell them (discounted) domestic BB, only the expensive business BB.
B.T seems to be the sole ISP hereabouts. :-/
Title: Re: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: TheBoy on 23 February 2009, 20:58:45
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Should work.  Why don't they just get consumer broadband?

Do you mean Tiscali/Eclipse/Plusnet/O2 etc., selling B.T Wholesale product?.....I have checked, but they all say no service possible on that line/postcode......only seems to return B.T (at a suggested 6 MB) on the BB finder services.:-?


Cant they cancel the buisness broadband and get BT consumer.....or is it ISDN?

They don`t have Broadband at all yet; just a business ph. line....B.T wont sell them (discounted) domestic BB, only the expensive business BB.
B.T seems to be the sole ISP hereabouts. :-/
most isps will allow consumer bb over business lines.
Title: Re: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: Debs. on 23 February 2009, 21:05:25
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most isps will allow consumer bb over business lines.

Thanks Jaime, I`ll abandon online BB costing efforts (which have seemed to reject the line as 'non-residential') and give some 'Consumer' ISP`s a call tomorrow and try and get some cost quotations from their telesales.
Title: Re: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: TheBoy on 23 February 2009, 21:06:39
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most isps will allow consumer bb over business lines.

Thanks Jaime, I`ll abandon online BB costing efforts (which have seemed to reject the line as 'non-residential') and give some 'Consumer' ISP`s a call tomorrow and try and get some cost quotations from their telesales.
Zen Internet defo do it - my brother has a load of their consumer broadbands running over his business lines
Title: Re: BT Home Hub on BT Business broadband?
Post by: Kevin Wood on 23 February 2009, 22:55:55
IIRC we used to have consumer broadband at work on a business line. That would have been with Vispa IIRC.

Kevin