We have Virgins dsl service via there national service, will we be able to get the faster service once BT has updated the local exchange for fibreoptic.
And also, would we need to upgrade the dsl router that was sent by virgin ?.
United Kingdom Only responses please.
the only thing I use virgin for is prepaid. But I do like their current promos for broadband. It is 99 dollar usb plug in device that gives you anywhere wifi, thewy also have 99 dollar unkimited for a year.
the usb broadband is 24.95 a month.
I am looking for the cheapest way to connect to the internet. AT&T is offering $19.99 a month for dsl. I was wondering if i can get that without having to get phone service.
You ask what I asked of AT&T. In looking for an alternative ISP without phone or cable, this is what I discovered.
The answer to your question is "Nope". DSL comes through the phone line and that is definitely NOT available — at least not available in this state — without a basic voice service charge on top of the DSL charge. I already tried, including asking about subscribing to a "data-only" line — which is LOTS more expensive than the DSL + phone that I already have.
To drop my phone service and still have broadband in this area, I’d have to subscribe to cable to use their cable modem service — that is, pay at least a minimum-service cable television fee on top of the broadband fee. I don’t watch TV, so their cable modem isn’t my answer either.
The only other choices are unacceptably slow non-broadband dial-up (which again requires a land-line), or a fairly slow (1/5th the speed at best) and VERY data-expensive cell tower connection — either an Android cell phone (over which up to 5 computers can use the Internet at once) or a less useful (one-computer-at-a-time unless one computer is made to be a router) USB data modem that’s just a cell phone without voice.
Near our state capital (two counties over), an FM/TV-frequency Internet service is offered — which is an ideal solution for unpopulated areas — but politics means I’ll likely never have that option here since Google dropped out and let Verizon and others buy those extra analog TV frequency allocations freed up by digital TV — that forced everyone to buy digital TV’s or converters. If I lived in that metropolitan area, I’d expect those FM/TV frequencies to be unable to carry really heavy traffic at high speeds. Hope I’m wrong. A related effort, "white space" ISP/networking, might be progressing fast enough to end-run around the big providers — but don’t count on it. See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/long-distance-wifi-rule-could-be-just-10-days-away/7318?tag=nl.e539
So for now, I remain an unwilling customer of AT&T, drooling at the thought of being able to afford paying for data over a Linux and Android-based cell phone that happens to also serve all my computers as a wireless router and broadband modem.
Good luck!
its located at the 2nd floor of victory mall monumento caloocan city.. if you happen to know their telephone number please share it to me. thanks!
There is no Victory Mall branch listed on Globe’s website, but you can call Globe and ask. 7301000 from landline, 211 from your Globe phone.
Here’s another way to get the number (from the electronic yellow pages):
VICTORY CENTRAL MALL
717 Rizal Avenue Old Victory Compound Caloocan Metro Manila
Phone: +63(2)3663169
Call and ask for customer service. They might know the contact numbers of their tenants.
does intelligence,it & comms soldiers got to do the same training and fitness test as normal every day soldiers?
Their physical training may be a little more relaxed than an infantry soldier but they still have to maintain the army Fitness test standard. The minimum score is
2 mile; 15:52
Push up:42
Sit Ups:53