Two ISP's in the same house?

[Barkseh]

Is it possible for me to pay for Virgin Media as my ISP if we already have BT in the house (for my mum, dad and brother)?

I'm wanting to get my own ISP coz our internet is slow as **** and I want to get the best one.

Is it possible?!?!?! xx

[N!ck]

It should be. They might be a bit like :S ***? at first on the phone to them but explain the situatuion and they should be able to sort you out.

[DaveTaylor]

It's possible however you have to say that one is for work, and other for home.

[Jordy]

Just something I always wondered on the topic of two ISPs, is it possible to use two connections and then you can sort of merge them together to have the speeds of both.

E.g. 50mb Virgin Broadband with 8mb BT, could you then get 58mb Broadband on one PC?

[Chaos]

Cant you just ring up bt and ask them for a better package deal?

[blanky12!]

Just something I always wondered on the topic of two ISPs, is it possible to use two connections and then you can sort of merge them together to have the speeds of both.

E.g. 50mb Virgin Broadband with 8mb BT, could you then get 58mb Broadband on one PC?
I think you brigde the connections.

[N!ck]

Just something I always wondered on the topic of two ISPs, is it possible to use two connections and then you can sort of merge them together to have the speeds of both.

E.g. 50mb Virgin Broadband with 8mb BT, could you then get 58mb Broadband on one PC?

No. You can't run two connections together like that. You can only run them separately.

[Barkseh]

No BT's crap.. Its just taken me 40 minutes to install AVG anti virus.


Cant you just ring up bt and ask them for a better package deal?

[Mentor]

Possible, but youd need a second phoneline + useing the two on the same LAN is a major pain in the arse (not really worth the trouble).

[Agnostic Bear]

No BT's crap.. Its just taken me 40 minutes to install AVG anti virus.

That's your computer, not BT.

[Chaos]

That's your computer, not BT.


Yeh and whats the point in paying 20£ a month ON TOP of another isp?

[Barkseh]

It isn't. I've just bought a new lap top for over £600. All the computers in the house are like it. It's obviously the internet.


That's your computer, not BT.

And I don't pay anything towards the other ISP. I want to buy my own so that it's only me using it and not lagging it up so much because my other brother downloads ALOT.. I think that's the main problem tbh.

[tm]

Virgin Media internet is through the fibre optic cable tv network.
BT broadband is through the crappy copper telephone cable network.

I know for a fact that you can have cable tv and BT phone so I can't see why you couldn't have both but God knows why you'd want to...

[Barkseh]

Because I don't want to be on the same network as my mum, two brothers and dad. Think of it as me living in a flat and getting my first ISP. I'm sick of my music taking over 40 minutes to download one song lol.


Virgin Media internet is through the fibre optic cable tv network.
BT broadband is through the crappy copper telephone cable network.

I know for a fact that you can have cable tv and BT phone so I can't see why you couldn't have both but God knows why you'd want to...

[tm]

Fair enough reason but you could probably have the same effect by reconfiguring your router.

[Kyle!]

For another ISP you would have to get a 2nd BT line, which will cost hundreds. Then on top of that is line rental, it's just not worth it.

However, if you are getting Virgin Media's fibre connection then it'll work fine, just make sure you aren't buying their copper wire connection.

[Mounta1nGoat]

It isn't. I've just bought a new lap top for over £600. All the computers in the house are like it. It's obviously the internet.

It is because installing something doesn't require a connection to the internet...

[Barkseh]

Yes but it needs to be downloaded from the internet to install it. Sorry, I should have been more clear.


It is because installing something doesn't require a connection to the internet...

[Technologic]

we used to have that. One for my dad and the other for the rest os us, the study has a dedicated line which my dad would use for work but now we've switched over to a vm cabled connection

[DeejayMachoo$]

Virgin is cable not phone line so yeah :)

[Recursion]

Just enable QoS on your router tbh. It's free, quick and easy.

[Barkseh]

What does that do and what is it lol. Sorry I should be blonde :D


Just enable QoS on your router tbh. It's free, quick and easy.

[Recursion]

Quality of Service, its gives priority to things like Web browsing.

What does your bro use to download stuff?

[Barkseh]

Vuze.

I'd rather have the speed of the internet for basic things like facebook, myspace ect increased tbh though lol. How do I do it?


Quality of Service, its gives priority to things like Web browsing.

What does your bro use to download stuff?

[Recursion]

If hes using Vuze then you could quite easily give that the lowest priority and then give Web browsing, E-Mail etc. priority.

What router do you have? You could Google the model to see if it has QoS features.

[BeanEgg]

I'm sure you cannot?

I was talking to my ISP previously and they were saying they would check to see if the phone line was free. Assuming if there wasn't any other ISP on my phone line.

Also the MAC transfer? To transfer the connection to another ISP?

[Tomm]

Back in the good old days we got another phone line for the dialup and if I recall it was not that expensive for the new line.