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Old 14 July 2008, 02:42 PM
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Default Good ISP without a bandwidth cap?

With Zen I'm limited to 50GB a month.
Old 14 July 2008, 07:35 PM
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Hard to find any DECENT DSL ISP's without a cap these days mate.
Old 14 July 2008, 07:48 PM
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Be for me.
Old 14 July 2008, 08:58 PM
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I would agree with BeThere as well. They do have a Fair Use Policy, but I don't think it has even been implemented.

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Yea if your exchange is enabled for BE, it's about the only choice.
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So you want to download MORE than 50GB a month!!!!

I know that HD naughty vids use more bandwidth, but not that much!
Old 15 July 2008, 10:48 AM
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50 GB aint a lot if you have more than one PC in use.
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Originally Posted by scoobz72
50 GB aint a lot if you have more than one PC in use.
And if you work from home.

I don't have Be on my exchange - it's rural and they don't seem too interested. If Be do the usual RADSL 8MB service that could be an option.
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I'm with Plusnet, they have a cap of 20GB in prime time (1600-0000) but unlimited outside of those hours.

My main download usage is Usenet, so I bought Newsbin Pro because it has a scheduling function (well, you can throttle speeds at certain times) and I never have a problem.

I don't download that much nowadays, but I used to crack 70GB+ and they didn't bat an eyelid.

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BEthere

If you want free install - bung me a PM with your email address & name
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BE or O2 (its the same company) and they are going to do some LLU on the broadband with BT shortly

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Originally Posted by TopBanana
And if you work from home.
I do!

TBH I've no idea how much I download a month (certainly never been told by my ISP). Could be 1G, 5G, 100G I've no idea (any way to check????)

I'm on virgin cable with 20mb connection and it's been great, far far more reliable than copper/phone connection and whenever I do a speed test, I get nigh on 18/19/20mb every time. However, do not know what or if there is a DL limit set.
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Originally Posted by Dracoro
So you want to download MORE than 50GB a month!!!!

I know that HD naughty vids use more bandwidth, but not that much!

I can download double that in a day I'm with virgin and there download speed is excellent when they don't cap it, so you have to wait till say after 9pm before downloading as I have downloaded on avaerage 80gig from 9pm onwards and its usually all done by the time I get up at 6.45am . I'm considering swapping to 02 as they don't seem to have any caps on at the moment ???

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Originally Posted by scoobz72
50 GB aint a lot if you have more than one PC in use.


I have six computers, a 25GB limit and download Linux distros - and I manage. Exactly how much illegal content do you need?


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Ah the old linux distro card
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