For many students looking to share a house for a year while at university, making sure that you have great student internet probably ranks higher in importance than finding a provider for their gas and electricity supply.
While there’s no doubt that having a good broadband connection is key, particularly when keeping in touch with parents and tutors, not forgetting binge watching series. Having a service provider that understands students is probably important too.
That because finding the right provider can be hard, if it’s cheap, think why. Sometimes paying that bit more makes a massive difference to the quality and speed. It’s also important to check what the contact length is, it’s common for there to a be a minimum 12-month contract length.
That’s not much use to students who may only be living in their shared student property for nine months so they will be tied into a contract that makes them pay for the three months when they won’t be using their broadband. That’s a great deal for the service provider!
If you don’t want to pay for an three extra months, then you could pay to disconnect the service when you leave the property but this could be an expensive move as well.
So you should really look to those deals that run for either nine months, or have a six month minimum term that’s extended automatically every month to help cater for those shared properties that may need their broadband for less than nine months or even slightly longer. This is the best of both worlds.
The only way…
To help you from having to Google the best service offering a student internet deal it will be a good idea to contact Glide broadband to see what they have to offer you.
It helps that there is a simple search function on their website to reveal what speeds are available for your property. You simply add your property’s postcode to find out.
Not only will Glide supply a free wireless router but they also have quick connection times, certainly quicker than many household name rivals will offer.
Another issue for students is not to sign up to an internet deal where their download allowances are capped – you need a no usage limit, so everyone can download what they need to from the internet without any restriction.
While shopping around for student internet deals, it may become apparent that some of the speeds are not particularly impressive. Or that cheap.
The Glide broadband offer will see a peak time average speed of 63 Mbps which is very fast indeed.
And to help with any issues, there’s a 24/7 broadband support centre to bring peace of mind.
What’s the issue?
Another issue for student broadband might be the cost and it helps that the Glide internet service can be incorporated with the monthly bill which makes arranging it straightforward and easy to pay.
Glide offers an effective student bill splitting service and the friendly team can also arrange for your gas and electricity connection along with water and the paying of the TV licence.
In many ways, this makes a student’s life easier – unless you have lots of experience in researching broadband and utility provider offerings to work out which is the best deal for you. The bill splitting service makes this process easier and everyone in the property gets a bill every month to pay their share.
For those student homes where there is a likelihood of falling out because people will not pay their share of any of the bills then this bill splitting offering removes that and you’re not responsible if someone else in the property decides they don’t want to pay.
That’s a shame when a good broadband service means there’s a great excuse for housemates to get together once or twice a week, share a meal and watch something on Netflix that they can get into as a household. It’s also a good idea to have a rota so one or two people cook a meal while one or two people wash and dry up.
It’s this sharing of responsibility that will help create a harmonious and happy student household and if everyone pays their utility and broadband bills, then this will be of great help.
Get in touch!
The best way of finding out more about a bill splitting service and a great student broadband offering is to contact the Glide customer service team who will offer more help and advice about how to go about this process and they will also arrange for the connection in one short telephone call.
It helps too that there’s an online portal, so students can manage their Glide account effectively, review their balance and change any payment details.
It’s also great way to check for energy usage, add any meter readings that are necessary, for example, when you move into and then leave a shared student property and you can also download copies of the previous bills.
There’s a lot to recommend a student bill splitting service to help make life easier and budget effectively when most students will not be flush with cash, so this is an offering that may help them budget effectively, so they can enjoy life as a student without worrying over whether they can pay their gas bill when the weather turns particularly cold.
If you would like to know more about understanding student internet offers and more about the Glide broadband offering, then contact the friendly team today.