Business broadband

If you have a business there is a wide range of business-specific broadband packages available.

You can find out which business broadband packages are available by using the UK business broadband availability checker - you can find one in the business broadband section of my broadband comparison website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com.

You can do a business-only broadband search and browse related business products including mobile datacards, hosting, domain names and office supplies. Or check out our business broadband FAQs.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

BT home broadband offers

The BT Total Broadband £1000 daily prize draw has been extended!

Sign up to BT Total Broadband online before 1 February and you'll go into a daily draw to win £1000. They have got £1000 to give away every day between 8 January and 1 February 2007, with a prize of £1000. Visit the BT website now to find out more about this offer and BT residential broadband packages.

Their Dabs.com vouchers offer is also running - order BT Total Broadband before 31/03/07 and you'll get £500 of Dabs.com vouchers which will give you money off a range of wireless devices, from music systems to the latest Toshiba laptops. Visit Dabs.com now and see what you could buy.

If you're looking for more broadband options for home or business in the UK, visit my website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com and try out the free broadband availability checker - add your BT phone number or post code and find out which ISPs are offering broadband packages in your area.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Check your broadband speed for free

With so many broadband packages out there offering superfast download speeds of up to 8 Meg, 10 Meg and now up to 24 Mb (with Be - sadly only available in a few areas of the UK - you can check on the Be website whether you can get Be broadband from your exchange) it can seem like a no-brainer that anyone on a 1Mb or 2 Mb package should switch, but for one aspect...

...you've probably also heard that magic phrase "up to" that precedes every advertised broadband package speed. There are several reasons why you may not be experiencing the advertised broadband download speed on your own broadband connection, including your distance from your BT exchange (if you have ADSL broadband), the quality of the wires going into your house, even how many people share the network connection from the exchange (the contention ratio).

If you have an existing broadband package, you can check your broadband download and upload speeds with our FREE broadband speed test on our website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com. (You can take this test as often as you like, and find out if your broadband speeds change at different times of day). You can find out more about broadband speeds in our article How fast is your broadband... really? which includes Five ways to turn around a slow broadband speed test result.

Then you can decide whether to stick with your existing broadband package, change to a new package or broadband provider, or even try a broadband accelerator such as ONSPEED to speed up your broadband or dial up.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

AOL Broadband offers

AOL have made their Silver broadband package twice as fast - sign up and you can now get download speeds of up to 2 Meg, with no increase in price - it's still only £14.99 per month.

Previously this AOL broadband package had speeds of up to 1 Meg - enough for many people but with more demands on download speeds from online gaming, music, etc, and more people online at popular times, faster broadband speeds at no extra cost are always welcome. Check AOL Broadband Silver out here.

AOL are still, at time of writing, offering the following (on orders accepted by 01/04/07):

• one month free if you order online
• a free wireless router worth £55 - of if you're switching to AOL, and you bring your own AOL-compatible modem, broadband with no minimum contract.
• £5 a month off AOL Broadband Platinum, their up to 8Mb package, if you're switching - it is usually £29.99 so you can get it for £24.99 per month.

Check out AOL broadband packages here, and try our UK broadband availability checker to see what broadband packages are available in your area.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

New Sky broadband, TV and phone offer

Sky Digital has launched a new bundle package made up of Sky broadband, Sky TV and Sky Talk for only £26 a month (subject to availability in your area), plus a one-off broadband activation fee of £20 (plus £11 per month to BT for your line rental.)

The bundle includes all six Sky TV entertainment mixes. There's Sky Broadband with up to 8Mb download speeds and a monthly usage allowance of 40GB. And you get a free wireless Sky router. Sky Talk Freetime is also included which has FREE evening and weekend calls to UK landlines (you still pay BT for your line rental and Sky for any other calls you make).

This particular £26 bundle is only available to 70% of the UK population, and there are of course other terms and conditions, so find out more about this See, Surf and Speak offer here.

It's a great deal - but like any bundle offer, make sure you work out whether you need / want the different elements of this package, because if not there may well be single products or a two-product bundle more suitable for you. You can check out a range of broadband packages and broadband / phone packages (or the NTL and Telewest broadband, phone and cable TV bundles) on my site www.ukbroadbandfinder.com. Try the broadband availability checker to find out what is available in your area, or browse bundles at www.ukbroadbandfinder.com/bundles.html.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

Tiscali broadband special offer

Sign up for Tiscali's up to 1Mb broadband with free weekend calls package - it's only £9.99 a month for the first three months! (After that you still only pay £12.99 per month). The package includes unlimited broadband and free local and national calls every weekend.

Check out this Tiscali package here, or view all Tiscali packages (standalone broadband and broadband/phone bundles).

You can also fnd out whether you can get Tiscali broadband in your area - visit our website www.ukbroadbandfinder.com and simply type your BT phone number, or postcode, into the broadband availabilty there.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

BT Total Broadband 1000 GBP prize draw

If you order BT Total Broadband online between 8 January 2007 and 15 January 2007, you will be entered into a daily draw until the offer ends to win £1000!

BT's residential broadband packages start at only £9.95 a month for option 1 (rising to £17.99 after six months) and you can get speeds of up to 8 Meg. So you could start 2007 with a fast broadband package and maybe even a cheque for £1000!

That's not the only BT Total Broadband offer running at the moment. If you order one of their broadband packages before 31 March 2007 you'll receive £500 of vouchers to use at dabs.com. The vouchers give you money off a wide range of wireless devices, from music systems to the latest Toshiba laptops.

There are three BT Total Broadband packages available - view them all here. Don't forget to make sure you can get BT Total Broadband in your area - simply type your BT phone number into our UK broadband availability checker at www.ukbroadbandfinder.com.

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder

2Mb Telewest broadband 10 GBP a month

This is an amazing offer - up to 2Mb cable broadband from Telewest for only £10 per month for the first year (£17.99 per month after that).

This offer ends on 31 January 2007 so if you're interested you'll need to hurry! This offer is available to new customers and existing phone customers who do not have a broadband service. There is an installation charge of £25 for existing customers or if taken by new customers without a phone service.

There aren't that many £10 and under deals for broadband only. Often the cheapest broadband is only available if you sign up for a phone package at extra cost, eg PipexMini with Anytime Calls (Unlimited phone calls to 01 and 02 numbers) for only £6.50 per month (the phone package adds an extra £12.50 a month). The Pipex deal is excellent if you're looking for a phone package too but for those wanting broadband only, this new Telewest deal could be ideal. You can get BT Total Broadband option 1 (up to 8Mb) for only £9.95 per month but after six months it goes up to £17.99 per month.

You'll need to make sure you can get cable in your area - in the UK most urban areas have cable and you can check whether you can get it with our broadband availability checker at www.ukbroadbandfinder.com. (It is best to check for cable broadband availability using your postcode rather than your BT phone number.)

By Sarah, at UK Broadband Finder