[Merged] Wanadoo Broadband

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by WNA

My dad picked up a CD yesterday from PC World. If this goes well we might move from Demon. Demon can be slow at times and thats not what i want.

You sound like the sort of user that would struggle with a 2Gb cap per month. I think your dad might find a bit of a shock when he gets his first wanandoo bill with the excess bandwidth charges applied.

[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.

[dilli-theclaw]

Don't you have a 2gb limit on this?

[bigitup_j]

2gb per month limit!!
not really that good value.

[Halcyon]

Yeah there is a 2gb limit.


Im not upto date on how these add up, but would this be filled if you are genrally surfing and sownloading the odd mp3 and file.

I guess if you are downloading movies then you are in a mess.

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Yeah there is a 2gb limit.


Im not upto date on how these add up, but would this be filled if you are genrally surfing and sownloading the odd mp3 and file.

I guess if you are downloading movies then you are in a mess.

Just download a couple of movie trailers or listen to the radio on the net and your goosed

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Yeah there is a 2gb limit.


Im not upto date on how these add up, but would this be filled if you are genrally surfing and sownloading the odd mp3 and file.

I guess if you are downloading movies then you are in a mess.

2 gig = around 70 meg a day, very easy to use up.

[Tezcatlipoca]

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Halcyon

.......if you are genrally surfing and sownloading the odd mp3 and file.

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.

[Halcyon]

Thanks everyone.
Think I'l stick with NTL then.

[dragon]

IMO if they wanna charge you extra for bandwith used then they should do a pay and go teir

where you just pay for what you use no monthly cost if u dont use it, that would be perfect for the light user.

[dragon]

JUST found this might be interesting for current wandoo users

I already have Broadband from Wanadoo. Will my service be affected?

Originally Posted by wanadoo website faq

If you joined Broadband with Freeserve before 28 April 2004 then your service will remain entirely unaffected by the new Broadband products and you will continue to receive an unlimited service.
Once you move to any of the new services, then you will no longer have an unlimited service. You will receive the usage allowance relevant to your new service.

[th'engineer]

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!

You dont get the same service

[td444]

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!

Funny that, I average well over 30gigs a month.

[Chrysalis]

its only a guideline and I bet they only even half enforcing it in congested area's only.