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BroadBand Question

Jon_in_london

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So, Im thinking of dragging my arse into the 21st century and finally getting broadband.

I have two options-

1. 1Mb with a 2Gig per month limit.
2. 512Kb with no limit.

So which is the best? They are the same price- How much slower is 512 in practice and how much can you do with 2Gigs a month?

Thanks.
 
Jon_in_london said:
So, Im thinking of dragging my arse into the 21st century and finally getting broadband.

I have two options-

1. 1Mb with a 2Gig per month limit.
2. 512Kb with no limit.

So which is the best? They are the same price- How much slower is 512 in practice and how much can you do with 2Gigs a month?

Thanks.
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Go for #2, 512k is quite fast for most surfing, and it will be very irritating if you reach that 2 Gb limit.
 
I agree. At times I download 2 GB per day. For simple surfing you will notice no difference at all. For casual surfing, most times the servers you're connecting to are not even able to max out 50Kb, let alone 512KB.
 
El Greco said:
I agree. At times I download 2 GB per day. For simple surfing you will notice no difference at all. For casual surfing, most times the servers you're connecting to are not even able to max out 50Kb, let alone 512KB.
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I have a 512k connection, and I routinely download 3GB per day.
 
Another voice here for taking the 512K. It's more than adequate for daily surfing, and I pull all my big downloads (recently I've got the iso images for Solaris 10 and Fedora Core 3, for example, at a couple of gigs each) down overnight. Bandwidth caps are a pain.
 
You'll be better off with the 512KB.

Trust me, you'll be better off in the long run, especially if you download lots of media, like I do.
 
Thanks for that folks.

The 512 option is AOL. I have heard horror stories about AOL- is it actually that bad?
 
What the camel said. have you looked at http://www.adslguide.org.uk/

My brother has AOL and a typical session when I use his PC goes
"What the (rule 8)? What (rule 8)ing (rule 8) son of a mutated (rule 8) that was (rule 8)ed up the (rule 8) by a (rule 8)ing (rule 8) came up with the notion that this (rule 8)ing pile of (rule 8) (rule 8) masquerading as a piece of software should act in such a (rule 8) (rule 8) (rule 8) way? I'd rather let a (rule 8) (rule 8) my (rule 8) with a (rule 8)(rule 8) than have anything to do with this."
 
Jon, I use Nildram's 512K unlimited. I know other Brits here do too. It's not the cheapest, but I've had no complaint about it in the year since I got it. I would say this though:- Do you see yourself downloading a lot? Some months, I download nothing apart from blasted Windows updates.

I think I would still go for the 512.

By the way, talk to your mates- some companies offer bonuses for new customer referals.

What about hardware? Router/modem? Wifi?
I strongly recommend a router modem. And remember with increased time online comes increased exposure. Are your firewall, AV and Spyware programs up to date?
 
Jon_in_london said:
Thanks for that folks.

The 512 option is AOL. I have heard horror stories about AOL- is it actually that bad?
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I have it. The connection itself is generally fairly reliable.

Just don't use the software. You'll have to have it open to get on the internet, but just minimize it and use a different browser.
 
I twenty-second the 512 unlimited option. 2GB may sound like a lot but it isn't.

I use www.plusnet.co.uk for my 512 unlimited. Excellent uptime and service, good price etc. Highly recomend them if you can get them in your area.
 
Smike said:
I have it. The connection itself is generally fairly reliable.

Just don't use the software. You'll have to have it open to get on the internet, but just minimize it and use a different browser.
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Ye-e-es, but, have you ever tried to uninstall the software? Definitely not a job for the amateur.
 
Jon_in_london said:
Thanks for that folks.

The 512 option is AOL. I have heard horror stories about AOL- is it actually that bad?
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Depends. If you want to go trolling AOL has to be the ultimte ISP. No one can block your IP without taking out the whole of AOL and the shear number of useres often makes that impractible.
 
Jon_in_london said:
So, Im thinking of dragging my arse into the 21st century and finally getting broadband.

I have two options-

1. 1Mb with a 2Gig per month limit.
2. 512Kb with no limit.

So which is the best? They are the same price- How much slower is 512 in practice and how much can you do with 2Gigs a month?

Thanks.
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2Gb! :eek: That's nowhere near enough. Option 2 without hesitation.
 
"2Gb! That's nowhere near enough. Option 2 without hesitation."
-Interesting Ian.


Ah! Now we know why you need that double layer DVD writer.:D
 
Just found out I'm being upgraded "within the next 7 days" to 2Mb, which is good news, but then they are introducing a 15Gb limit - which is bad news (no more all day internet radio playing in the background :( )

The creafty logic always makes me smile.
 
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