Thread: UK Broadband users are ripped off
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Old 26-11-2003, 12:19   #27
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Re: UK Broadband users are ripped off
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Originally Posted by Jerrek
I downloaded Deep Space Nine. [all seven seasons at 9 GB per season, plus 9-12 GB per season in uploads] And about 10 movies. Anyways, the 5 Mbps is the official speed, but they are doing 7 right now on a trail basis to see how it is going. It used to be 4 a few months ago but they are constantly upping it.

And the tax burden is rather annoying. 22% income tax up to $32,000 and then 26% or so. Not to mention the damn 15% sales tax. Gas came down a bit... Now about $0.65 a liter (0.29 or 0.28 UK pounds).
As a student is more of your bandwidth useage during the day or late at night rather than evenings and weekends.

Assuming they have the technology to monitor these things, excessive usage is only a problem if it affects other users. If it is all at 3am when nobody else is on line then why penalise - bandwidth is a use or lose utility.
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