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Originally Posted by Halcyon
Just got this leaflet with my amazon order that Wanadoo do 512k access for £17.99 with free modem and connection, plus a free £10 Amazon voucher.
This has got me quite interested seeing that I currently pay £17.99 for 150k, soon to become 256k.
My question to you all is:
1) Is this offer any good ?
2) Do you think NTL will take the 150k upto 512 to compete with this offer ?
Thanks.
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1) No, not IMO. The 2 GB cap (a proper cap, not some, apparently unenforced, "guideline" like NTL's) cripples it. Why bother having 512k if you can only download (& upload - it's a total cap on both directions) a total of 2GB per month?
2) Why would they? Pointless, I think. Nothing to compete with. The NTL 150k service is going to increase to 300k "in late summer" anyway. Plus, NTL BB has a 1 GB per *day* limit, which isn't even enforced much it seems. Compare that to a 2GB per *month* CAP with Wanadoo.
Personally, I would much rather pay £17.99 for a 150k (soon to be 300k) service, with a ~30GB/month limit, than pay the same money to have a 512k service which, although faster, is crippled by having a pathetic 2GB per month cap.
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Originally Posted by Halcyon
.......if you are genrally surfing and sownloading the odd mp3 and file.
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150k/300k is perfectly fine for just surfing the net. If you want to download stuff...OK, it will take a bit longer than a 512k connection, but, to be honest, so what? - you don't pay for the amount of time you are online anyway so that doesn't matter. And with a ~30GB/month "usage limit" you can download quite a bit.
Wanadoo 512k...you'll have a faster speed (but I doubt it would be much better for just surfing than NTL 150/300k), but what can you do with it if it has a cap of such a small amount.