Broadband Fair Use Policys

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Last summer Pipex cut us off, we had been with them about 5 years and gave us 2 warnings, not admittedly they did warn us but they would not go into detail about what was actually "fair", although we worked it out to be around 50gb per month.
Now in a month or two i am moving back in with the rents and would like an isp which wont bend me over backwards (especially with the advent of Iplayer and 4od etc).

my question is what isp have a) 100gb + fair use policies b)arn't too expensive

regards Andy.
 
Virgin media are unlimited download. I've never had a letter from them, and yet download too much per month (400/500GB plus)

although they love to throttle you at peak times for "excessive downloads" but apart from this they're okay.
 
Be unlimited is great in the UK I've heard.


Odd about all those FUP's there, here all isp's are unlimited except tele 2, which doesn't even bother you when you download over 300 gb's a month ( some people on forums even claim they've downloaded over 600gb's and not a word from tele2 or throttling).
You can get orange 20mb unlimited or telfort 20 mb for 19.95€ a month and you have no limits/rubbish FUP at all here.

All the ''premium'' more expensive ISP's also all have no usage limits except for the very basic 5-10€ connections.

I'm wondering why broadband is so terribly expensive and limited in the UK :confused:.
 
we have an ancient telephony network in the UK which the owner of (BT) is too lazy and cheap to upgrade to fibre, which is what you have in Europe.
 
aproctor said:
Last summer Pipex cut us off, we had been with them about 5 years and gave us 2 warnings, not admittedly they did warn us but they would not go into detail about what was actually "fair", although we worked it out to be around 50gb per month.
Now in a month or two i am moving back in with the rents and would like an isp which wont bend me over backwards (especially with the advent of Iplayer and 4od etc).

my question is what isp have a) 100gb + fair use policies b)arn't too expensive

regards Andy.
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You need O2 broadband.
 
Aod said:
we have an ancient telephony network in the UK which the owner of (BT) is too lazy and cheap to upgrade to fibre, which is what you have in Europe.
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They arent lazy.

They have a monopoly, they are making minimum investments and getting maximum profits.



Munky1080 said:
Enta net - no speed caps, but you only get 330GB a month for £19.99...
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Going to have to look into that, currently on BT broadband at £27.99 a month, 2Mbps line with a 30Gb limit. Which I dont think we have exceeded, but a few months back got a letter saying we had and got charged an extra £9 !

Only reason we're still with them is because we're moving soon.
 
Aod said:
we have an ancient telephony network in the UK which the owner of (BT) is too lazy and cheap to upgrade to fibre, which is what you have in Europe.
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And because the vast majority of customers want free or £5 a month broadband and wouldn't fund any upgrades.
 
thanks guys will have a look, looked at 02 previously and they do have a fiar use, but the customer service people i spoke to before i read the t&c's were adament that there was not one?!?!?
but it doesn't matter as i cant get it where i am.


on another note, i leicester i was with pipex last year and virgin cable this year and between 4 of us we probably download at least 400gb + every month and have never heard anything, leading me to believe that as there is more competition and more people (so more being downloaded) that they are more lax and the likelyhood of being in the top 1% of heavy users in a big city is pretty slim with just a 4mbit connection.
 
Aod said:
we have an ancient telephony network in the UK which the owner of (BT) is too lazy and cheap to upgrade to fibre, which is what you have in Europe.
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An upgrade to nationwide fibre to the home is projected to cost £11.3 billion, you got that kind of cash handy?

As to the OP, if you want to download stupid amounts of data you could always consider coughing up and buying a package appropriate to your usage rather than trying to find which £20 provider hasn't got round to a fair use policy yet...
 
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aproctor said:
Last summer Pipex cut us off, we had been with them about 5 years and gave us 2 warnings, not admittedly they did warn us but they would not go into detail about what was actually "fair", although we worked it out to be around 50gb per month.
Now in a month or two i am moving back in with the rents and would like an isp which wont bend me over backwards (especially with the advent of Iplayer and 4od etc).

my question is what isp have a) 100gb + fair use policies b)arn't too expensive

regards Andy.
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BeThere are immense, ~450gb in 6-7 weeks. I did some research before signing up, they've never enforced their FUP and one of their techies said 'you'd have to download 3.2TB over 2 months for us to care"
 
bigredshark said:
if you want to download stupid amounts of data you could always consider coughing up and buying a package appropriate to your usage rather than trying to find which £20 provider hasn't got round to a fair use policy yet
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I didn't say £20 a month i said not expensive, tbh most of the big isps give you 50gb for £20 then you pay a £1 per gb etc which for a measly 100gb between 3 people is £70, to clarify i am looking an isp such as "be" (which i was not aware of before) but they are not availible in my area.

all i am looking for is an isp that will not shaft me.

regards

Andy
 
aproctor said:
I didn't say £20 a month i said not expensive, tbh most of the big isps give you 50gb for £20 then you pay a £1 per gb etc which for a measly 100gb between 3 people is £70, to clarify i am looking an isp such as "be" (which i was not aware of before) but they are not availible in my area.

all i am looking for is an isp that will not shaft me.

regards

Andy
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I was generalising, but my point is if you want to download hundreds of gigabytes you should expect to pay in the £40+ bracket, it's not shafting you, it's just charging you what it costs. Anybody who does it for less is just offsetting your high usage against other users basic web browsing and low usage - which sounds great but with iplayer and 4OD these days it's an unsustainable model unfortunately...
 
I'm not sure what your point is quoting yourself, it's still charging what it costs. Saying its sharing between 3 people doesn't make much difference either...
 
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