BT Internet

...paid wads of ££’s to BT for their 24/7 Internet service. Alone, I must have part-funded a call centre in Delhi. Then in the summer of 04 (sorry, it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as 69), BT finally offered Broadband to this remote Highland community. (With great reluctance, and many delays, I must add.) Fitivver, I signed up for BT Broadband – that’s the middle option, between BT Broadband Basic and BT Yahoo Broadband. Basic didn’t offer ...
...So I signed up for BT Broadband, not online, but by telephone, with a very nice chap who assured me my old BT Yahoo 24/7 subscription would be replaced by my BT Broadband charge from date of inception. I pay my BT bill by monthly Direct Debit, and like the plonker that I am, I haven’t checked my BT bill until now. It appears I am severiously in debt because along with my Broadband charges, I’m still being charged for the dial-up connection which ...

Aspen 22.02.2005 (25.02.2005) · Read full review
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Anyone who is familiar with BT Internet will know this opinion isn’t going to be singing any praises! Bt Internet charges customers £14.99 per month for their “Anytime” service. This service apparently allows customers to connect 24/7 - hence the name “Anytime”. What BT fails to make clear is that you are disconnected every 2 hours to allow others users to deter “heavy” internet use. Dial-up users sometimes have to wait hours before they can connect ...
...no data is being transferred, BT disconnects your modem! Because of the 2 hour cut off it is very difficult to download files without the use of a download manager which supports the “resume” function. I think BT fails to realize that the Internet is not in existence solely for the purpose of viewing pictures and text on a web page. As I am a web designer I use the Internet quite frequently, both morning and night. Searching through my E-mail Inbox ...

evansuk 07.11.2001 · Read full review
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...always been a fan of BT internet. I was one of their first customers to sign up when they released the free evenings and weekends access and have remained loyal ever since, including an upgrade to their Anytime package (£14.99/month) and a second BT line when we recently moved house. I had seldom encountered problems, but as a user of two ISP's rather than one, if I ever failed to connect on my first go with one, then I merely switched over to the ...
...another reason for staying with BT internet, my web-site, which attracts a reasonable amount of visitors and registers on most major search engines, something which has taken my nearly three years to establish, the thought of starting again does not appeal. So why I am writing here? A CHANGE OF CONNECTION NUMBER A few days after moving house, I received correspondence from BT Internet advising me that as a regular user of their service, they were ...

sue.51 25.09.2001 · Read full review
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...your Mail Box, check your BT Phone Bill, change or add Friends & Family number and discounts. This special feature of BT.com is an added bonus, and will therefore require added security to access the page. Again the directions are simple to use. I check regularly on calls made since I received my last bill, this does not include discounts to rentals charges and etcetera. My phone bill records the amount in value but did not include calls made 10pm ...
...quite happy with this new service, I use to feel that assessing these pages require ‘a techno mind’ but that is not so, having pass the prime of my youth I feel really confident in being able to handle such a site, age, barrier, creed, whatever you would say it BTopenworld is certainly the People’s Choice if they so require it. ...

Elainebaba 11.09.2001 · Read full review
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BT INTERNET When I got my new pc one of the first things I wanted to do was to get the Internet, so I kept asking my mum to get the internet and telling her about all the good prices on offer out there and that I really needed it for my home work (lol). Then about six months later she telephoned BT and asked them for one of their Internet installation disks. When the disk arrived in the post I had to install it because no body else knows much about ...
...I think BT Internet is one hundred percent the best, because of many things, such as, it is very easy to install and set up, and it is quite simple and fast to register all your details and other things such as method of payment etc, There are three packages to choose from with BT Internet so you get to choose the one which best suits your needs, plus they all have very good prices, and they are: ANY TIME: With this package you can go on line whenever ...

jtsguy 01.12.2001 (08.04.2003) · Read full review
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...today via an email from BT that they are to raise the price by £2. For £9.99 (or after 1st August £11.99) you get unlimited Internet use from 6pm until 8am in the morning. Weekends you are able to log on at anytime. I have read comments from people who have difficulty in connecting to BTinternet. I can only suggest that this is due to your local exchange. Connection ---------- Always first time I have found, though this is variable, busier exchanges ...
...best, would have to be BT in my opinion. Cut Off ------- 2 hours (though can be 1 and a half hours when busy) with a 15 minute idle kick off Speed ----- I connect at 48,000 or 46,777 virtually everytime. Downloads are usually excellent 4kbs +. Gaming ------ If you play games then I can recommend this ISP. When coupled with a good quality modem, the pings that you can get in online games are extremely good. The best I have ever had was 150, usually ...

Del_Boy 22.07.2001 · Read full review
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...them all very similar. BT Internet is the latest in my line of ISP’s. I was mainly drawn to them for the unmetered internet access. To be fair, I cannot really praise or criticise them properly, because I find most providers the same. As I said, the main draw towards BT Internet is the free evening and weekend calls in conjunction with their Surftime service. If, like me, you pay the Surftime on your BT phone bill, then you get free internet calls ...
...perhaps you don’t have a BT line then you cannot pay it on your phone bill, and therefore must use a credit card. The disadvantage of this, besides actually having to own a credit card, is that the free calls are only from 6pm-midnight weekdays. I, myself, would find this most inconvenient as I often use the internet after midnight. There is no software provided with BT Internet, besides a copy of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook if you don’t ...

xr2i16v 28.12.2000 · Read full review
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...on searching and found that BT was starting up a new package some time in January offering 24/7 free call access for a monthly fee. I signed up for notification of this but kept looking. ~ Then I came across Freeserve also offering a service called Anytime but at a cheaper rate than BTInternet so I signed up for that one. All well and good for a few days, but then the problems started. (I will be reviewing this service soon). So, when on the 26th ...
...You get a bright blue BT icon on your desktop, and a text document to read (or put in the recycle bin) and that’s it, you are ready to go. Disconnect from the ISP you were using and click on that BT one. If you have a number withhold on your line, you need to prefix the dial up number with the following “1470,,” (that includes the quotes) or you will not get connected in a month of Sundays. ~ So, just how good is the Anytime service? ...

wiggglypufff 07.02.2001 · Read full review
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...use the service. Then BT invented a special internet rate called Surftime which was supposed to make it cheaper for ISP's to offer 24/7 access, but again this was flawed. People who used the services for more than 4-5 hours per day were costing the ISp's money, so were kicked off of the service, even though they were only using a service for which they had paid. (Force 9) Finally BT, forced by AOL & OFTEL, offered a new rate for ISP's called FRIACO, ...
...upon. For £14.99 a month you get internet access with no call charges, 24 hours, 7 days a week. That's not to say that you will or should use it for 24 hours a day, but it makes access during the day a financial reality. The sign-up process is very quick and easy, although you do need a credit card to be able to sign-up for BTInternet Anytime. When you've finished the sign-up you are prompted to download a dialer, to access the internet through ...

cjkace 01.03.2001 · Read full review
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I have been using the BT Internet ISP for internet access for a couple of years now. I first started using it with a 33.6 kbps modem, and it performed reasonably well for the hardware I had - about 3kb/sec downloads. Then I moved on to a 56 kbps modem - and I have about 4kb/sec downloads. Quite recently (about 3 months ago) we moved house, and asked for BT Home Highway to be installed. (This service offers a combination of 2 digital/analogue hybrid ...
...I suggest you visit the BT site, at http://www.bt.com/). You'd think that with a 64 kbps connection you'd get a pretty good improvement, right? Wrong! I barely ever see those 4kb/sec download speeds anymore. If a website doesn't load for me, I might have to disconnect to switch ISPs - and then surprise surprise; it loads almost instantly. It's not any good for gaming, either. There might be some quick periods but every so often you'll get a whole ...

Fugit 25.01.2001 · Read full review
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BT Internet, the worst ISP in the world ever? I’m not entirely sure, as I’m aware of many ISPs that perform equally as badly. But this one I’ve just about had enough, and I’ve only been signed up with them for 3 weeks! Anyone who has read my ops on BT and NTL will know that I’m no fan of the nearly bankrupt former monopoly of the telecomms world. But the past 7 days has seen what tiny little bit of faith I had in them ...
...such a strong dislike of BT Internet at the moment? If you ignore the fact that their software takes an age to work out due to an overly complicated and poorly designed set-up procedure. Then you’ll probably be praying each time you log on that you are in fact clicking on the right icon to get free access. If this doesn’t worry you, your probably quite wealthy and don’t have to think about your phone bill, or you’re just slightly ...

holland 19.04.2001 · Read full review
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The BT surftime package I have been with for some 6 months now is in my opinion excellent value for money and has saved me around £30.00 per quarter based on my phone bills prior to this. The dial up speed for my 56k modem normally gets as high as 44kbps and I have never had an engaged tone in all the time I have used it. When the surftime option first came up, it was offered by Bt separately to the ISP, i.e. you could use your existing dial up ...
...I then meandered onto the BT site discovered it was only a pound more and downloaded the software and signed up within a few mins. Excellent and I have not looked back since, they are quick and good value for money For £11.98 per month, Free access at off peak times i.e. 6pm to 8am Free all weekend 5 email addresses with the option to collect your emails anywhere in the world through your browser (Like Yahoo or Hotmail) 10 MB of webspace Free ...

rnicholls 23.08.2001 · Read full review
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I've been using Bt internet for about a year now, and although I was pleased at first, having shopped around a bit and learned a little more, I'm growing more and more annoyed with BT everyday. For nearly £10 a month, I can go on the net from 6pm until 12am weekdays, and all day on weekends, however for the same £10 a month paid on the phone bill (not the credit card as I do) you can surf until 8am the following day. Apart from that, the connection ...
...the answer is simple: BT have a monopoly on the Internet - other companies offering FREE access are folding every day. I was going to leave them and go with Liberty surf for £20 a year, but like others they folded and now only offer 4 free hours a month (what can you do with 1 hour of surfing per week?). Alta vistas free offer also proved too good to be true, others are too expensive, and when I inquired about NTL, which actually sounds like a good ...

student 27.12.2000 (10.11.2001) · Read full review
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I've been with BT Internet for coming on a year now, and I have to say I've had no problems whatsoever with dial ups or connection speeds infact they've been excellent. PACKAGE: I signed up because at the time they were one of the few who were offering a £9.99 per month package offering free evening (6pm >12am) and weekend internet calls. This has brought my telephone bill down considerably from £160 to £80 a quarter. DIAL UPS: I've never had ...
...now get this package with BT Surftime, which for an extra £5 a month your free evening calls are extend from 6pm > 8am the next morning. NOW AVAILABLE - 'BT Internet Anytime': I know Freeserve have started this month, and now BT Internet have started the same scheme for £14.99 a month. This package will mean free calls to the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week. BT Internet are currently doing a special deal where they are only offering this ...

seteo 20.01.2001 (18.02.2001) · Read full review
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...all you who are on BT and know LOL ), and then there is the diabolical download speeds that BT try to pass off as the normal for their service - try 1 k on a good 56k connection and thats on a good day. Secondary there is intermittent faults with the e-mail servers causing mail access failures. BTI have also decided to ban a few major free mail providers from mailing people on BTI (BIGFOOT being one), and the delivery of mail is also problematic ...
...on the odd occasions dissapearing into the bowels of the servers for ever. Thirdly, the DNS has been playing up with a whole manner of problems, ranging from slow loading pages to none at all and then back to normal. Even as all this is going on, BTI cannot be put down as they are trying tooth and nail to rectify these errors and have some of the friendest support staff in the land. BTInternet is not a Bad ISP it's just that it's just not good ...

dfjericho 06.12.2000 (02.02.2001) · Read full review
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