Broadband providers in the uk - no i'm not a bot!

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unpossible
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Broadband providers in the uk - no i'm not a bot!

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for some reason my parents still only have a 1Mbit connection and it's costing them £27.99 per month with wannadoo :evil: . that's daylight robbery!
who are you (uk) guys with?
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Deathblane
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Post by Deathblane »

Freedom2surf (I think that's how it's written).

We get 2mb download and 256kb upload for about £30 a month. But if our exchange ever gets upgraded then we'll get 8mbit and despite a lot of torrenting we've never had a stop downloading letter.
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Post by Mugslugs »

i've got 8mb now for £24.99 a month used to have 1 mb a month ago now and half a month before that 56k for £124 for 2 months average :P
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Post by unpossible »

Mugslugs wrote:i've got 8mb now for £24.99 a month used to have 1 mb a month ago now and half a month before that 56k for £124 for 2 months average :P
i didn't realise you had phones out there yet! :o
my only other experience was with force9 and that was about £20 per month for 2Mbit...but the terms of service seemed to change daily. packetshaping and all that continually shifting of downlaod limits/time of day limits/time of day download speed limits. strange stuff.
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Re: Broadband providers in the uk - no i'm not a bot!

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unpossible wrote:for some reason my parents still only have a 1Mbit connection and it's costing them £27.99 per month with wannadoo :evil: . that's daylight robbery!
who are you (uk) guys with?
Daylight robbery?

What about this :

1 Mbit, Limited to 15 gigs and costs 60 Pounds a month?

Extra bandwidth costs 15 Pounds for every extra gig or you can get oh so wonderful 64k with unlim bandwidth - which is the case with me right now.

how'd it feel to get robbed of your unlimited bandwidth connection to get 2x speed but limited bandwidth?

Sorry, I had to say it.

The point is - BE THANKFUL THAT YOU HAVE A CHOICE OF ISPS AND REASONABLE PRICES.
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Post by Drone_Fragger »

This cost Fox his wonderful NS playing on the FX clan server :.(
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Aun
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Post by Aun »

We're with BT, 512K down (booo), 256K up, costs £15 a month for 1GB bandwith, iirc. I've never gone below 5GB a month and never had a complaint letter...
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unpossible
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Post by unpossible »

eek, £60. you live further out in the country than we do?
1Mbit just isn't enough these days. i want youtube!
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Deathblane
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Post by Deathblane »

By a bit of torrenting, I mean an average of 100GB a month :oops:

Still at my parents place in devon we're too far off the exchange to even get broadband. Makes the holidays slightly less worthwhile :(
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Weaver
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Post by Weaver »

I have the 3 for £30 deal with NTL, which is;

Phone
Cable TV
4M down 400K up
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Forboding Angel
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Post by Forboding Angel »

Wow, that's outrageous pricing!

Move to the US. Roadrunner, excellent customer support, 5 mbit down and 512k up for roughly 22 UK pounds.
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Re: Broadband providers in the uk - no i'm not a bot!

Post by duncs »

Foxomaniac wrote:
unpossible wrote:for some reason my parents still only have a 1Mbit connection and it's costing them £27.99 per month with wannadoo :evil: . that's daylight robbery!
who are you (uk) guys with?
Daylight robbery?

What about this :

1 Mbit, Limited to 15 gigs and costs 60 Pounds a month?

Extra bandwidth costs 15 Pounds for every extra gig or you can get oh so wonderful 64k with unlim bandwidth - which is the case with me right now.

how'd it feel to get robbed of your unlimited bandwidth connection to get 2x speed but limited bandwidth?

Sorry, I had to say it.

The point is - BE THANKFUL THAT YOU HAVE A CHOICE OF ISPS AND REASONABLE PRICES.
let me guess: south africa? I'm from there but I left ;)
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Post by Caydr »

Better yet, move to sweden where residential 1 gb connections a) exist, b) cost about as much as a case of beer.

Plus there are other advantages to being Swedish. Or at least, living in Sweden.
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Post by duncs »

Caydr wrote:Better yet, move to sweden where residential 1 gb connections a) exist, b) cost about as much as a case of beer.

Plus there are other advantages to being Swedish. Or at least, living in Sweden.
the girls? and wearing a lot of brown/earth colours

heh, you forgot to mention that a case of beer costs a LOT more in sweden than in most other countries ;)

nice mod, by the way. Down with the haters.
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the girls?
Uh... no, the permafrost and saunas... :P
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Post by Snipawolf »

Bleh, right after this topic was created by net got bogged down.. And I'm in the US..
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Post by Cabbage »

I use Demon, only 1mbit, but thats becuase of where i live, it would be faster for the same price otherwise (24squid)

I think they do a diffrent offer for 19 quid a month which is pretty much the same, onl;y diffrence i can remeber off the top of my head is a limited number of email adresses.

P.S. I'd use pound symbols but im in the U.S. atm and american keyboards are a bit backwards ^^
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Post by duncs »

I am with eclipse internet. 8 megabits/second, 40 gb (primetime) limit, unlimited non prime time limit. I download stuff and they haven't complained yet. evolution 2 broadband, 24/month
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LOrDo
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Post by LOrDo »

Stop complaing about your internet, all of you.
56kbs for 25$(C) a month. And thats ALL we get around here.
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Post by Zoombie »

The girls, the internet...what else would on want! Off to Sweeden!
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