[Merged] Wanadoo Broadband

[willo]

Why should I stay with NTL when Wanadoo UK confirmed that it is launching a new £17.99 per-month 512k broadband product with a 2 Gig a month cap, not sure what my DL usage is a month but I only surf the net.

I have 600K BB with phone line, I also have a BT phone line. Convince me to stay!

[russellelly]

Originally Posted by willo

Why should I stay with NTL when Wanadoo UK confirmed that it is launching a new £17.99 per-month 512k broadband product with a 2 Gig a month cap, not sure what my DL usage is a month but I only surf the net.

I have 600K BB with phone line, I also have a BT phone line. Convince me to stay!

Firstly, I think this is the wrong forum, should be alternatives to ntl/TW. If you only surf the net you'd notice little fifference going to ntl (soon to be) 300k. I'll bet Wanadoo will charge you for a USB ADSL modem as well at that price

[Hell's Child]

Originally Posted by willo

Why should I stay with NTL when Wanadoo UK confirmed that it is launching a new £17.99 per-month 512k broadband product with a 2 Gig a month cap, not sure what my DL usage is a month but I only surf the net.

I have 600K BB with phone line, I also have a BT phone line. Convince me to stay!

It's difficult to do so, bt do a similar thing for 19.99 a month but have a 1gig cap.
Most people on the 600k service will exceed 2gig per month, through downloads etc, which is why they are on 600k as opposed to 150k.

If you ONLY surf, then it is more than likley worth it..... if you do a small bit of downloading then it isn't.

[Racingdick]

Not wishing to be left behind, Telewest rival NTL is also upping the speed of its net connections for free.

Its services will start at 300Kbps, priced at £17.99, with the top end at 1.5Mbps costing £37.99.

"Our customers want more speed, better e-mail access and more newsgroups to enjoy, and that's what we're delivering," said NTL chief executive officer, Simon Duffy.

[Defiant]

Wanadoo £17.99 per-month 512k

Seems stupid to me. Once you've checked a few movie trailers,listened to some radio etc r you expected to pay more then anyway.


Good way of getting customers and then forcing them on the higher tier mind

[keithwalton]

2Gig / month gee's louise thats low. That makes ntl's cap look hughe. I dont think they'll force you onto a higher teir instead charge you for every extra gig you use.
In our house we do have 2mbit from plusnet and it is shared 4 ways. We do use between 500megs - 2gigs a day not least a month.
That works out at 67.3megs a day. I'd eat that up on 56k nevermind 512k.
Those french sure are trying to be cunning, tho i doubt it'll work

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by keithwalton

2Gig / month gee's louise thats low. That makes ntl's cap look hughe.

Er, did you forget the sarcasm smiley?
NTLs cap is only 1GB.

[Peter_Stanley]

Originally Posted by Richard M

Er, did you forget the sarcasm smiley?
NTLs cap is only 1GB.

Isn't NTL's cap 1GB a day, and supposedly only enforced if exceeded in 3 or more days in a 14 day period?

This is ~30GB a month, which is huge compared to 1GB a month!

[keithwalton]

indeed ntl's cap is a gig a day, which as said is far greater than the 2gig a month wanadoo are offering. its somthing like a £1.* for every extra gig you use

Originally Posted by Richard M

Er, did you forget the sarcasm smiley?
NTLs cap is only 1GB.

NTL's cap is 1GB/day, Wanadoo's is about 70MB/day.

[MovedGoalPosts]

This recent article on ispreview sums up for me the rather silly situation developing regarding these budget introductory unusable cap broadband services:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/articles/cap/

Broadband should be about much more than just the occasional bit of browsing. You only need to visit a few sites with a bit of graphical content, or have a friend email a few photos to eat a bit of bandwidth. Do that just 2 or three times a week and you start to get close to these appallingly low and unuseable limits.

Do ISPs really think that all users want is lightening fast page updates. Or are these services really just to whet the appetite and entice newbies, who then will realise they've been conned and need to spend a lot more.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Racingdick

Not wishing to be left behind, Telewest rival NTL is also upping the speed of its net connections for free.

Its services will start at 300Kbps, priced at £17.99, with the top end at 1.5Mbps costing £37.99.

"Our customers want more speed, better e-mail access and more newsgroups to enjoy, and that's what we're delivering," said NTL chief executive officer, Simon Duffy.

We know

Huge thread on this: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=11564

Originally Posted by Peter_Stanley

Isn't NTL's cap 1GB a day, and supposedly only enforced if exceeded in 3 or more days in a 14 day period?

This is ~30GB a month, which is huge compared to 1GB a month!

Yep. Much better than the 1GB per month cap on the BT budget broadband service

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts

This recent article on ispreview sums up for me the rather silly situation developing regarding these budget introductory unusable cap broadband services:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/articles/cap/

Broadband should be about much more than just the occasional bit of browsing. You only need to visit a few sites with a bit of graphical content, or have a friend email a few photos to eat a bit of bandwidth. Do that just 2 or three times a week and you start to get close to these appallingly low and unuseable limits.

Interesting article, MGP.

Do ISPs really think that all users want is lightening fast page updates. Or are these services really just to whet the appetite and entice newbies, who then will realise they've been conned and need to spend a lot more.

Probably the latter, IMO. I'd hope they are not so stupid as to think all we want is fast page loading.

[themelon]

If yoiu only browse there is absolutely no need for anything higher than 150k......in fact its debatable whether you even need that or just a good 56k modem dial up provider to be honest!!

A 512K service with a 1Gb cap or 2Gb Cap is utterly pointless in my eyes. That as BT would say is not what Broadband shoukld be about, the whole point of Broadband is enriched media experience.....NOT faster loading HTML pages. If OFCOM are doing a redefinition of broadband they need to look at these opitiful offerings.....it is not broadband in my eyes as it isnt an enhancement of what can be recieved by a 56k modem really, you couldnt stream audio or video, you couldnt download files........POINTLESS

[Tezcatlipoca]

Yeah, the Wanadoo BB tiers seem a bit crap IMO.

£17.99 for 512k, with a 2GB/month cap

- Same price as NTL's 150k ("soon" to be 300k) BB, which has a 30GB/month cap. NTL's 150k (300k) is slower, but still great for surfing the net, & the cap is 15x higher.


£27.99 for 512k, with a 15GB/month cap

- £3 more than NTL's 600k ("soon" to be 750k) BB, which has a 30GB/month cap. NTL's is cheaper, faster, & has a bigger cap.


Why bother having 512k BB, if it only has a download limit of a couple of gigs?