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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Bt have a special offer on at the moment you can upgrade to Anytime+ for no extra charge and you get full broadband access until May for £15:99......then if you want you can go back to Anytime + which is limited access broadband......3 times faster than dial up. Bt aren't daft though they know that once you have experienced full speed broadband you won't want anything slower so they've got you.

Hi Margaret, I think the term is UP to 3 times faster than dial up, that would be 150k not very good, had some of that and it caused me no end of problems. Most BB products are advertised that way. UP to 5 x faster, UP to 10 x faster, but they are all contended at 50:1, so the speed you actualy get sometimes is not what you think. Check out this link the ADSL guide, gives you a list of all the ISP's that provide a "domestic" BB service.
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ it's well worth having a look before you take the plunge.
Example i'm on a 512k connection, download speeds are usually about 56/60kb/ps which is quicker than dial up. On the ADSL guide there is a speed checker, may be worth having a look, and testing your download speed on your normal dial up connection.