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RE: Re: IS it true? (BT bandwidth capping)




No caps at all....

Andy

On 02/07/2004 at 09:37 UKHA wrote:

>Hmm, 10mins to download a 700mb iso... nice...
>
>Are there any caps on it?
>
>Lee
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: UKHA [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
>  Sent: 02 July 2004 00:22
>  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: IS it true? (BT bandwidth capping)
>
>
>
>  In Sweden you can get a 100mbit connection for 60 euro p/m
>
>  Andy
>
>  *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
>  On 01/07/2004 at 22:08 UKHA wrote:
>
>  >That's reminded me of some hunting I did a year or so ago when
NTL
>brought
>  >in their 1GB/day cap,
>  >  I looked around and was shocked at the cost of adsl in
Australia in
>  >particular... made the UK look cheap.
>  >
>  >  But I think it is definitely the way it's going to go - back to
the
>good
>  >ol' days of dial-up,
>  >  but instead of pence per min, it'll be pence per megabyte.
>  >
>  >  The only question I have is that in Tokyo that have 28MBit
broadband
>of
>  >some description -
>  >  does anyone know how the pricing structure of that works???
>  >
>  >  Lee
>  >
>  >  -----Original Message-----
>  >  From: David Buckley [mailto:db@xxxxxxx]
>  >  Sent: 01 July 2004 21:04
>  >  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  >  Subject: [ukha_d] Re: IS it true? (BT bandwidth capping)
>  >
>  >
>  >  --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Dean Barrett"
<dean@r...> wrote:
>  >  > Had an Email from Nildram today detailing PAYG Broadband
>  >  > ?15.99 for 50hrs or 1gig/month.
>  >  >
>  >  > Is this the shape of things to come ??
>  >
>  >  Here is sunny NZ I'm on a package called "surf
unlimited"
>  >
>  >  Its 256Kbit/sec, with a 10gig/month cap.  Costs me $69.95 a
month,
>  >  which is 24.60UKP.  If I exceed 10gig, then bandwidth drops to
64K.
>  >
>  >  You can get faster packages, but they paradoxically lower gig
>  >  allowances (ie 1 or 2mbit/sec with 1 or 2 gig/month cap, then
>  >  20c/gig therafter) or slower packages with more allowance, eg,
128Kb
>  >  with 15GB and x cents per gig thereafter.
>  >
>  >  In practice, even whilst in the UK, as a houshold we were well
>  >  within 10gig/month.  I've just checked now; we're at 4907.37 MB
and
>  >  the month runs out on the 11th.
>  >
>  >
>  >
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