Six Things You Don't Know About Broadband (6)

Do you know broadband?

You may answer yes. I know you may have tried different broadband from several broadband ISPs. You may have installed broadband by yourself several times. You know broadband speed - 2Mb, 8Mb or 24 Mb. You may understand the monthly usage and control your usage. But if you are not a technician in that area, you may not know everything behind these numbers. There is something broadband ISPs will not tell you, or try to write it in a shady corner on their web page.

Let me tell you all these things:  

Availability:

When you check broadband availability of a certain provider, the checker may tell you that that broadband is available in your area. But later, when you plan to install broadband from that provider, you may told that you have to pay more than the price shown on the web site to get that broadband.

What's happened? The reason is some broadband ISP use two types of network. They have their own broadband exchanges in some areas. In some place elsewhere, they provide broadband service by BT network. The cost is different, leading the different price in different areas. As far as I know, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk Broadband have such differential price policy. And Orange also use two networks, but their price are the same.

See also:

Six Things You Don't Know about Broadband! (1)

Six Things You Don't Know about Broadband! (2)

Six Things You Don't Know about Broadband! (3)

Six Things You Don't Know about Broadband! (4)

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