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 ;-)

Update - NTL

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Buried on the NTL website is a terms and conditions linking to a FAQ that says "normal use" is 1GB/day and if you go over they'll just gently suggest you throttle back. It actually sounds reasonable; I only wonder why the NTHell they couldn't just *say* that rather than trying to conceal it.

[theinquisitor.livejournal.com]

We maxed out a plus.net line for a month, with nary a reminder. That was their unmetered deal.