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keilamym
Registered User Joined: 20 November 2007 Location: California, USA Status: Offline Points: 441 |
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aol has got to the be the worst for people that knows computers...
i've had comcast dsl, adelphia cable, time warner cable and verizon dsl... i have verizon FIOS now and damn its fast... i've lovin it.
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toastyghost
The 10,000 Points Club Joined: 09 January 2007 Location: Manchester Status: Offline Points: 10919 |
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It doesn't cost any money to assign static IPs and is generally much easier to maintain your network when assigning only statics - at the initial point of order we offer up to 8 (5 usable after router and broadcast assignment) for free. After that we only charge a nominal admin fee for editing the RADIUS template for your user if you need to regrade to a different number of fixed IPs. We do need justification for more than 8 simply to pass onto RIPE though. Oh, and all ISPs trade on the basis that 99% of users will never go near the limits. We do truly unlimited connections at a sensible price for it; £79+VAT and on that it's sold more on the peace of mind factor of not having to worry about limits, rather than targeting those that are going to use it excessively. That said, we do have several users pulling in over a terabyte a month but because we advertise it as unlimited we honour it. Doesn't take much to be honest after all. Sadly, there's almost no money in DSL and most providers will offset it somehow, whether that is selling additional and more profitable services such as telephony, TV etc or selling your advertising details to the highest bidder. |
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nickyburnell
Old Croc Joined: 06 February 2005 Status: Offline Points: 4410 |
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I'm sure they have done the math, it'll be presuming that no one goes near that limit as if they all did the math wouldn't work out. So IMHO an advertising gimmick.
As for the static IP, that's what caught my eye, there was no option just static, and as most providers charge extra I'm even more warey.
Regards Nick
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odc04r
Old Croc Joined: 12 July 2006 Location: Sarfampton Status: Offline Points: 5482 |
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Usually there is always a choice between static and dynamic IP in my experience, but that wouldn't bother me anyway. I don't download the sort of copyrighted material that would get me a nasty letter anyway. Worst offences are a few relatively obscure mp3s now and then that I want to hear properly before buying.
If the company makes a loss on transfers over 50Gb/month then I guess that's their problem not mine - I'm sure they have done some kind of maths to justify their 300Gb figure. Will look into it a bit more fully when I have a minute. |
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nickyburnell
Old Croc Joined: 06 February 2005 Status: Offline Points: 4410 |
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It's just not possible. As stated by a Zen emplyee above, hitting 50gb on an account that costs £35 will result in a loss by the isp. Also I note they give you a static IP address, well thats actually very nice, however don't get up to any funny stuff as you will definatly not be able to riggle if it comes on top, your address is yours period, just read off the books with no going back through records and seeing what dynamic IP you were assigned at the time.
247.959.**.**** oh yes thats Mr *******. Don't get me wrong, the ISP will always know who you were if asked but a static makes it a lot easier for the Torrents Police to know it was you, always the same address...
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odc04r
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Tempted to give these guys a try, http://www.pulsegaming.com/adsl.aspx
300Gb per month and no throttling during the day sounds very reasonable for the price which is what I pay with BT now anyway. |
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b3n
Registered User Joined: 28 September 2008 Location: Brighton, UK Status: Offline Points: 222 |
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only problem i have with virgin is the cap after you download a certain amount
my 2meg account was capped to 1meg after downloading 350mb so worth getting standard rate bt line rental and getting an unlimited adsl provider. |
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norty303
Old Croc Joined: 18 August 2004 Location: Eastbourne Status: Offline Points: 8806 |
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I was on Tiscali before moving to this house and bar the tech support woes, had very little to complain about (once I'd been through the process a few times and knew how to handle them)
Now on the Sky all in one package because its simply the easiest and cheapest to manage. No problems bar not being able to use our old router, but once I'd bitten the bullet and reconfiged the supplied one it was all good. Get about 3meg on downloads for what is supposed to be 8mb but its quick enough for online gaming, P2P and whateve else we choose to do, and its only £5 for 40gb usage which I'm yet to hit the limit of.
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toastyghost
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Something we don't hide - if you're on the 'Pro' package and actually download the full 50GB of your allowance we've lost around 30p on your account. Use of the BT network costs a lot more than people think |
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chilli
Old Croc Joined: 28 July 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1676 |
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i was with zen for a few years, excellent isp, but a bit pricey. i'm with virgin on cable atm, mainly due to the fact the house had a cable port and no bt line and bt wanted silly money to connect it up. seems quick though and works pretty solidly (10meg)
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jonny4288
Registered User Joined: 06 August 2008 Location: N.Wales (WXM) Status: Offline Points: 586 |
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Connection uptime and stability is of the upmost importance in the household here, as a family member works from home,
currently with zen, never had a problem once with the connection, very stable, cant comment on their customer service as ive never had to phone them.
used to use pipex who were a very good isp, then it all went downhill, throttlling, a lot of connection dropoutssh*te customer service, then they were bought out by tiscali, this was no good and affecting workflow so just had to move ISP then.
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toastyghost
The 10,000 Points Club Joined: 09 January 2007 Location: Manchester Status: Offline Points: 10919 |
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It's not really for home users, although they are of course welcomed - you are indeed paying for the tech support. It might not seem worth it, until you're hit with a complex and very awkward fault such as 'random electrical interference' and nobody seems to know what to do. Never heard of Fast before but they do seem to get good reviews. Pretty odd that they bumped up their packages by the same amounts we did, just two weeks after us Edited by toastyghost - 08 January 2009 at 9:27am |
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