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Living in a HMO with rubbish EE shared connection

Goog2
Just joined

Hello,

I am under tenancy in a specific room of a shared house.

The landlord has provided an EE broadband service for the whole house to use, we can access this through WiFi.

Lots of gamers at the address, often I cannot even watch Youtube, obviously not a good enough broadband.

I tried to sign up to EE as a separate customer to EE to have broadband in my own name and account to my own room, they and every other broad band provider that uses the Open Reach infrastructure cannot do this, I am told this is because the address of the whole house is only registered as a whole house under the one Unique Property Reference Number 30026137 and also just as one identity under the Royal Mail/Post Office PAF (Postal Address File). The landlord did not bother to register all the individually tenancies with  separate identities, so for example as if the one building had just the one street number (which it does) but split up into a block of flats or actually just as room numbers.

How goes it with Virgin Media?

You have a different wiring/cable infrastructure for a start, are you able to provide me with a broadband and TV service just under my account,, my name, my room number, my payment details etc,? 

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Client62
Alessandro Volta

In your situation I'd focus on inspecting the coverage maps to find which mobile phone company provides
good 4G / 5G data coverage and get a SIM card with that firm for your use with YT etc.

Even if VM could offer a service, the Landlord must agree in writing to the ground works and to the drilling of walls etc, plus the minimum contract with VM is 18 months and should you cancel early  expect to to be faced with paying off the remainder of the contract with any kind of discount. It a none starter.