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posted by [personal profile] oldbloke at 01:45pm on 10/03/2006
Just ordered my free upgrade to 8M.
Of course, the BT line only supports 2 at best right now, but hey, it's still more than 500k, eh?
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posted by [identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com at 01:45pm on 10/03/2006
I just upgraded my line to 2M. Mainly so I get a higher cap - as there now is one, since PlusNet took over Metronet. I can't say that I've really noticed any interactive increase in speed.
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posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 02:02pm on 10/03/2006
No, I suspect we won't notice much, unless we start streaming stuff from the BBC Broadband service or something.
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posted by [identity profile] ruudboy.livejournal.com at 01:53pm on 10/03/2006
Is this zen? I was thinking about it, but there's a cap on the 8M service isn't there?
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posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 02:01pm on 10/03/2006
20GB/month
1quid/GB over

And anyway, they've discontinued all the slower stuff except for Home250, so you may as well, unless you expect to go over the cap on a regular basis. Otherwise you're paying 8M prices for slower connectivity.
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posted by [identity profile] ruudboy.livejournal.com at 02:04pm on 10/03/2006
Ah, so they just charge you extra for going over rather than cut you off? That was my next question. I'll probably change then, although I am thinking of binning Zen and going over to Be, but that sounds too good to be true innit.
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posted by [identity profile] the-muttster.livejournal.com at 06:53pm on 10/03/2006
Personally, I think that data caps are anti-competitive, restrictive, and another source of money-grubbing. Especially when we were in NZ and I found out that 4 years on from our last visit, the Govt were still denying the need for LLU and every ISP had a cap.

Although I appreciate that not everyone can get cable. Still waiting for my 4Mb update to come through...
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