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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Very true, perhaps what I mean is a decent overhead in relation to my speed and modern day internet usage.
I'd be happy to fork out £50 a month for 50MB down 1.5MB up with a 10GB cap per 24hour period.
I think that sounds fair?
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But your £50 buys you a contended connection -- if a large number of other 50Mb/s customers on the same UBR want to download at the same time, your speed will fall.
I had a look at the
Zen Internet website earlier and they offer <8Mb/s download / 832Kb/s upload with no download restrictions for just £79+vat.
But down
at the bottom of the page, you find:
Please note:
* Actual Broadband download speeds will be no higher than 7,150Kbps
* BT Wholesale estimates that 78% of customers will achieve Broadband download speeds of 4Mbps and above.
* Fluctuation in Broadband line speed is expected to occur within the first 10 days of service whilst your line speed adapts to the maximum it can reliably support.
* It is likely that Broadband speeds no greater than 2Mbps will be achieved at peak usage times.
* Broadband speeds are affected by line length, quality and peak Internet usage periods and will range from 160Kbps to 7150Kbps. Further details on what affects speeds is available in our support knowledgebase.
