8 meg broadband in UK

[rhegedus]

UK broadband gets speed injection

An eight megabit service has been launched by internet service provider UK Online.

The service comes with a hefty £39.99 monthly price tag but will mean users can download MP3s in seconds and offers TV-quality video streaming.

That's cheaper than most 1 meg tarrifs!

[whomacuddy]

Yes it's only £5 more than NTL's 1 Meg Cable service and cheaper than many ADSL 1 Meg services .

[Craig Tucker]

Does not say if there are any download limits though. Not a lot of use if you only get 1-2 gig a month which is pretty common for some broadband packages.

[offline]

Yeah... like in Oz where you get 10mbit
but with 10 - 20 gig soft cap limits. I get
around 22 gig a month on ave before being
soft capped. The maximum I've got in a
month was 70gig.

[VCDHunter]

Does not say if there are any download limits though. Not a lot of use if you only get 1-2 gig a month which is pretty common for some broadband packages.

We do not have a fixed bandwidth restriction. However we reserve the right to suspend or restrict your use of the Service if we consider it excessive. We would consider regular or recurring data transfer in excess of 4 Gigabytes per day to be an example of excessive use of our Broadband 8000 service.

4 gig a day aint bad.

[Hardcoreruss]

Only Central London though at the moment

[flaninacupboard]

*is on floor drooling*

Finally, i could download all of the Cmasters' porn collection! wonder what the upload is like?

Watching MPEG TV streamed over the net would be cool though.

[bugster]

*is on floor drooling*

wonder what the upload is like?

400k

Not available where I live

[Hardcoreruss]

*is on floor drooling*

Finally, i could download all of the Cmasters' porn collection! wonder what the upload is like?

Watching MPEG TV streamed over the net would be cool though.

There are some anime channels you can view through musicmatch which are very good quality.

[Hardcoreruss]

*is on floor drooling*

wonder what the upload is like?

400k

Not available where I live

Wheres that?

[Craig Tucker]

Not in Swindon

[bugster]

*is on floor drooling*

wonder what the upload is like?

400k

Not available where I live

Wheres that?

A small town in the Midlands. Home of the Oval Ball game

[Hardcoreruss]

Oh I get ya

[yoda313]

Hello,

Yeah... like in Oz where you get 10mbit
but with 10 - 20 gig soft cap limits. I get
around 22 gig a month on ave before being
soft capped. The maximum I've got in a
month was 70gig.

As you probably already read I'm getting DSL soon

How do you know what your download limit is??? Is that printed in your service contract???? I'm getting it from SBC. Where could I find my restrictions?????

Kevin

[VCDHunter]

Hello,

Yeah... like in Oz where you get 10mbit
but with 10 - 20 gig soft cap limits. I get
around 22 gig a month on ave before being
soft capped. The maximum I've got in a
month was 70gig.

As you probably already read I'm getting DSL soon

How do you know what your download limit is??? Is that printed in your service contract???? I'm getting it from SBC. Where could I find my restrictions?????

Kevin

My ISP (BT) offered unlimited access, 576/256 for £27 a month. No limits at all - I would regularly download a gig a day. Most do state a limit in the service details nowadays, over here anyways.

[Hardcoreruss]

I am with pipex 1024/256 I pay £33 a month and have no download limit.

[Craig Tucker]

NTL 600/128 £25 per month no limit.

[rhegedus]

Does not say if there are any download limits though. Not a lot of use if you only get 1-2 gig a month which is pretty common for some broadband packages.

We do not have a fixed bandwidth restriction. However we reserve the right to suspend or restrict your use of the Service if we consider it excessive. We would consider regular or recurring data transfer in excess of 4 Gigabytes per day to be an example of excessive use of our Broadband 8000 service.

4 gig a day aint bad.

If I remember rightly (it's been so long - I'm on a shitty 33kbps dial up since August ), the half meg DSL downloads at about 6 meg a minute, so an 8 meg line as about 40 megs a minute - 4Gb would be about an hour and a half of DL a day.

[bugster]

NTL 600/128 £25 per month no limit.

Actually NTL imposed a 1G/day cap some months ago. Have never heard of it being enforced though!

[Craig Tucker]

Certainly not enforced here, I regularly download more than that in a day.

[VCDHunter]

If I remember rightly (it's been so long - I'm on a shitty 33kbps dial up since August ), the half meg DSL downloads at about 6 meg a minute, so an 8 meg line as about 40 megs a minute - 4Gb would be about an hour and a half of DL a day.

About an hour and a half is right - assuming you can connect at 8mb to anything, cant see you getting that through kazaa lite though

[Hardcoreruss]

Some bird at work has just got this 8mb service.

She lives in Limehouse.

[rhegedus]

If I remember rightly (it's been so long - I'm on a shitty 33kbps dial up since August ), the half meg DSL downloads at about 6 meg a minute, so an 8 meg line as about 40 megs a minute - 4Gb would be about an hour and a half of DL a day.

About an hour and a half is right - assuming you can connect at 8mb to anything, cant see you getting that through kazaa lite though

Try WinMX

When I upgraded to a 1 meg line (those were the days.......) I did a quick test my searching for the most popular artists mp3 - Brittney it was.

I waited about a minute just to get as many users queued up as I could and then downloaded - maxed out at about 135Kbps downloading from about 30 sources: Toxic took about 20 secs for a 4meg file.

I reckon you could quite easily DL is enough people have the fiel you want.

There are also a few big whales on WinMX who have T3 connections and go on for about an hour a day for a smash and grab. If you get two or three of those going your 8 meg line will be on fire!

[Tool Man]

NTL 600/128 £25 per month no limit.

Actually NTL imposed a 1G/day cap some months ago. Have never heard of it being enforced though!

Didn't NTL up our 600K to 750K a while ago?
Anyway, I think the cap was only to be enforced on people who are thought to be abusing it, like downloading Gb's everyday or something.

[Hardcoreruss]

I though NTL increased everyones subscription by 50%.

Not that I would know, my area is too snobby to have its roads dug up.

[bugster]

I though NTL increased everyones subscription by 50%.

Not that I would know, my area is too snobby to have its roads dug up.

Pretty much yes, and they are increasing speed again sometime in the new year (as are Telewest). New customers will get the new speeds as soon as they sign up. Existing customers will have to pay a £25.00 'admin' charge. Thats sucks

BTW, TW are not charging an admin fee

[rhegedus]

And despite all this, cable broadband is still unavailable to most of London - that's right, the nation's capital.