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8Mbit connection for £14.99?
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__________________ £/pm Activation fee D/l speed Usage limit Connect Lite £14.99 £49.99 up to 8Mbit 2GB Connect Home £19.99 £49.99 up to 8Mbit 10GB Connect Plus £24.99 £49.99 up to 8Mbit 100GB |
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and it is only upto , not guaranteed to be 8mb :erm:
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My experience of LLU gives me no faith,I doubt theres many people anywhere in the uk can get even near 8 meg ,Im stuck on 6 meg and it don't work at night,in fact at the minute it does not work at all
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Well they just uncapped it:
http://www.freedom2surf.net/adsl/homeuser.php Uncapped 8Mbps downstream 768kbps upstream ADSL for £24.99/month uncapped on monthly contract. Paul - you got the wrong end of the stick, 8Mbps isn't going to be available apart from selected unbundled areas until November this year when BT release their MaxDSL product. Sign up where it's available and you pay nothing, the £15 is just the regrade fee for transferring packages from 2Mbps to 8Mbps - this is going to be to recoup the charge BT will levy for conversion from standard to MaxDSL. BTW Quite a bit of the UK population can get 8Mbps, 50% or so are close enough to their exchange to get there or there abouts, I was comfortably within range before moving home. Quote:
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things are looking very interesting. We uk guys will be able to host bigger games of halo 2. w00t!
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Wouldn't bet on it, they'll be getting the prices that low by contending, UKOnline quote 33:1 they quote 50:1, and you'd best hope it goes nowhere near that.
You've no chance of seeing anywhere near the 7.2Mbit or so left after overheads in peak times once this gets going unfortunately, effect this has on pings depends entirely on how they manage it. They're certainly cutting the margins close, and I'd guess hoping that not too many heavy users go onto their service, though they've shot themselves nicely in the backside uncapping the service. I can think of a couple of people who'll be happy to hoover up a terabyte a month or more with that service. |
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Even I'd be pushing it to find 1TB of stuff a month that i want.
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I guess, yeah. plenty of people downloading to sell.
as i mentioned in another thread, i was a collector back in the amiga days, but i don't have the time/patience to collect now. I don't even get time to watch everything i record off TV, never mind leeching everything i can get my hands on. |
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Some people just get addicted to downloading :( they will download tons of stuff they will never use, I was like that when I first got broadband.
With 8mbit there is no doubt when this gets decent takeup the performance during peak hours will be noticeably contended, but the problem here is not reduced speeds but the latency increases, any decent isp should really traffic shape so small packets have priority. |
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The faster my connection gets, the easier it is to get my downloading done overnight, to free up online gaming time while i'm awake. There are often times when i'm awake that i'm busy/out, so i'll download then too, but if i had 8mbit, i can't imagine what i'd be able to find to keep it downloading so much. The extra upload would definitely be handy, mind.
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