Re: Broadband choice: Wanado/Freeserve vs Plusnet: costs?

On 22 Nov 2005 18:32, if <if@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Although there are no formal bandwidth limits on the BB+ account, in
> practice it is now hard to exceed about 5GB/month as protocols used
> for downloading continually time out.

Depends what you do, as always. 30 GB so far this month, 77 GB last month!
[ OK, hardly any of that was Usenet, and I don't use any peer-to-peer apps,
so downloads in my case included software - a few hundred MB and not linux
distributions, but free applications/games, and of course films from sites
such as CinemaNow.com, and streaming audio/video from other sites too... I
also had few problems with podcasts, using iPodder.

>The bitterness you will have seen on various newsgroups is from people like
>me who signed up to a full internet service only to find it had been
>redefined as a light user web & email-only account without any formal
>notification, and thus with no right to cancel being given.

It was definitely described as being unsuitable for those who do a lot of
file downloading (though no mention of Usenet specifically) and staff did
point out in this newsgroup that peer-to-peer users were better suited to
the Premier account not Broadband Plus. FWIW, making the text newsgroups
faster is something I definitely appreciate, but having been up very late
(or early, depending on your work patterns), but not even getting headers
from usenet.plus.net and *lots* of timeouts, makes me less than happy.

>Plusnet want people to have broadband but never download. All I can say
>is, what's the point?

Well, while I cannot get even 20 to 50 MB of binaries, I'll spend time on
webcams and watching films, and hit 1 GB a day, or perhaps more. Peter M.

--

UK ADSL <http://tinyurl.com/5jpa4>... Saving with Plus.Net.
50+ GB of traffic last month, on Broadband Plus at only 14.99.
Unsuitable for heavy downloaders, fine for video/audio streaming.
.

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