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We're looking to be renting this new place for no longer than a year before buying somewhere. Have started looking at the 3/EE SIM routers as a stop-gap now, cheers!
hvsds-
This is what I did for several months and it was fine.
I have a spare 4g router and crazy aerial if you have a SIM card you can use.
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This is what I've switched to after suffering with a shit ADSL connection for far too long (and no hope of fibre at my address).
I went for a Huawei b535 router (£90 with a strong resale value) and £35 a month Giffgaff sim. It's worth doing speed tests on a number of networks and in different rooms before you decide which provider to go with. I get strong 4g signal on my phone with Three but the speed is only 15-20 mb/s, on Giffgaff (O2) we're getting 80mb/s download, 20mb/s upload.
Suffered 2 days of slower speeds last month due to O2 working on a nearby mast but other than that it's been stable.
Velocio
moog
If you get non-fibre... you're going to be stuck in a contract and no fibre upgrade will come until you are out of contract.
You either need BT to step up and give fibre... and handle fighting with them for that.
Or you need Virgin to step up and ensure you have cable.
If you have the option for fibre or cable, do not accept anything else... better to wait and be hotspotting for a while than find yourself on a crappy 10Mb *DSL connection and locked into a contract with no incentive for them to do the work to give you a better connection. They'll do it for customer acquisition, less motivated for customer retention.