Not well up on packages. We use Bt broadband which has done me and the Wife ok.
But we live in London, otherwise I would lend you a ethernet cable and you could share ours
Que rush by Joe bloggs to find couple of hundred miles of cable and repeaters
It is worth checking with people locally if they use adsl what the connection is like. As it varies as you most likely know area by area.
Also do be careful if you actually have cable has sometimes a street is not always fully linked up but on the website they will say it is.
So be careful getting locked into any long term deals and think if you really need the free laptop or even router equipment. Can you get a better deal where you have to supply the adsl router?
Do you want broadband via a cable or wirless to your pc? The choice of router is important although im sure most are both ethernet and wlan. Be wary if it was just a usb connecter all the ones i have seen over the years seem to give the user far more problems than the other types.
Also worth checking the filter you get and BT will depending on the phone socket you have sometimes provide (again not sure if they still do this) a special adaption which helps in many cases increase the connection speed.
Not sure if they still do it but Bt offered a service where if you allowed people to share your wirless connection you got free access to everyone else doing the same.
Some people found this quite handy if they lived in a out of the way place.
Others in bulit up areas did not think the same.
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