[themelon]

Im not really seeing the cost benefits of moving.

It seems to me you are considering paying more for a more restricted service than you currently have.

There is very little difference (except for upload) between a 300k service and a 512k ADSL service, infact at peak times with poor contention I have seen a 512k ADSL service operating at 150k or less, at least with cable unless you are in an oversubscribed area which you can complain about and get moved onto a different UBR, you will get pretty much on the mark in speed tests.

For telephone also........you have to pay BT £10.50 for option one whether you like it or not now which terribly anti competative but thats a different story!! I suppose a lot of this depends on your calling patterns but to be honest I find it hard to beat the ntl 5p plan but im not at home during the day and never call mobiles of my landline (free anytime any network minutes on mobile) so that may be the reason.

Is the grass greener with ADSL im not so sure, I just moved house had ADSL installed with Pipex and found it pitifully slow compared to what I was used too the best speed I got on 512k service was 350k and that was a 2am! Also its not an alsways on service, you have to dial up and it diconnects with soon after and I was begging ntl to come back who gave me a nice 3 month free deal on TV and Broadband as I was previously with them for 18 months. These cheap capped services are exactly what they say on the tin.........cheap and nasty, I personally would stay clear of them and pay a little more for a less rigorously capped service or uncapped service.

Migrating to capped service is giving money grabbers like Wanadoo and BT who offer a measly and utterly pointless 1GB cap service, further fuel to add to their fire because it gives them the impression that people actually like their service...........fact of the matter is the public are underinformed, and will be able to do little when their 'cheap' £19.99 service reaches the Cap and starts running at 32k or cuts off completely, of course each of the said will only be too happy to move customers on to a £29.99 package at a later date.

A final note...........If you are planning on having a 1mb service capped a 3GB monthly?? is that correct? Can I ask for what reason.........the main point I can see for a 1mb connection is downloading lots........for browsing the web (html pages) a good 56k connection is sufficient, for a bit of streaming media you are unlikely to need more than 512k so 1mb might be a bit of an overkill!! Just a thought!