Advice - Broadband

[jack]

Thanks to everyone who volunteered suggestions. One of the most helpful was Tim who said "The NTL website lies to you. If you ring them up they say there's no set-up cost, and give you a free phone for a year." which is quite a good deal.

Another question -- does anyone know if services are genuinely unmetered? For instance, NTL doesn't *mention* a download limit, but I'd assumed that if there truly wasn't one they'd advertise it, and if they didn't it meant they just 'mysteriously cut you off' after a few gig.

Comments

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I assume if there was one the four of us in Rivendell would ave hit it, and afaik we haven't. This is hardly concrete evidence though ;-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Good point. Did Matthew say you used Zen? Though I suppose with that many people in the house the cost becomes moot :)

(OK, obviously nowhere is *truly* unmetered, but I wonder if services which don't mention a cap are 1GB a month and don't say, or only cut you off if you *really* take the piss, or charge you per MB but only tell you at the end of the year by $evil.legal_dodge)

[senji.livejournal.com]

We were on Zen; but aren't any more.

When we *were* on Zen we ran download at bandwidth cap for a fortnight and got abotu 60GB for our Debian mirror... No problems.

[senji.livejournal.com]

It gets a bit slow sometimes, but it doesn't look like a download limit to me.