Re: New Eclipse offerings...

John Adair <nkchuckf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:54:12 +0100, Jon B wrote
(in article <1hdg6qi.1ghunr31sd0u6qN%black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

With the roll out of 8mb by BT, Eclipse are on the ball this time and
offering 8mb across the board (and 448k up)[1], but changing the level
of service by contention, not speed. Those of us already connected can
crossgrade (I'm told for free) from next week.

However before you jump in and make the decision be sure to check here
first...
<http://www.eclipse.net.uk/index.cfm?id=fixedcomparison_res>


I'm still struggling to get my head around the difference between evolution
broadband and home broadband.

I'm currently paying £29.99 for a 2MB Flex account and am perfectly happy
with that level of expenditure, so my options are:

* evolution option 4 for £29.99 - 50GB during peak (6pm-midnight) hours, with
the other 18 hours unmonitored.
* home broadband option 4 for £29.99 - 40GB all in.
"Performance" for both is "Premium Plus", whatever that means.

There *must* be something I'm missing here. What on earth's the point of the
home broadband account if the contention ratio's exactly the same but you can
download drastically less? (40GB vs 50GB plus whatever you can cram down your
modem during the other 18 hours per day.)

I can't see a single reason to go with the 'home broadband' either,
stick with evolution. The lower services you get full contention at all
hours till you hit the cap (all of 2gb on the £15 a month service) then
you can either pay for extra downloads, or spend the rest of the month
on 256k downloads.

The two lower tier services (£15/£19) only have 5 email addresses, not
the previous 10, and LACK newsgroup access, so make sure you are a
berlin subscriber or other suitable provider [2] before you make the
switch ;)

I assumed that by no newsgroup access, they meant they'd be squishing NNTP
access altogether by some sort of port filtering business, or something. Not
just not letting people with the cheap accounts use the Eclipse usenet
servers.

No fairly sure they can just stick an ip/user block on their own usenet
servers, would be unfair not just to block you from their own servers
but any you were allowed to pay for. They are restricting access to keep
load on their servers down (and theirfore lower costs), use somebody
elses server and you aren't being an issue to them. I wondering though
if we all phone up and say how about a txt server for us 15/19 a
monthers that costs them bugger all to maintain (relatively) if the
suggestion would get anywhere....
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
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