1 GB Bandwidth enough for web browsing?

Hi,

One of my friends has asked me to post this for them.

They are looking at getting broadband and only use the internet for web
browsing, no downloading files etc.

There is a deal that looks good just now with pipex £14.99 / month with 2
free months, free modem and free connection. The bandwidth limit is 1 GB.

Do you think general web browsing (e.g. reading bbc news, ebay, email) of a
an hour or 2 every few nights would use over 1GB bandwidth in a month?

Thanks

apologies if you have already seen this post. i posted it a couple of days
ago as well but checked 2 news servers and google groups and messsage did
not appear

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Craig wrote:

> They are looking at getting broadband and only use the internet for web
> browsing, no downloading files etc.
>
> There is a deal that looks good just now with pipex £14.99 / month with 2
> free months, free modem and free connection. The bandwidth limit is 1 GB.
>
> Do you think general web browsing (e.g. reading bbc news, ebay, email) of a
> an hour or 2 every few nights would use over 1GB bandwidth in a month?

So long as the use remains as indicated above they should be OK with 1GB
however they need to consider what it will cost if they exceed this
bandwidth limit and how long they are tied to the contract - this is
particularly important if usage changes later.

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Craig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of my friends has asked me to post this for them.
>
> They are looking at getting broadband and only use the internet for web
> browsing, no downloading files etc.
>
> There is a deal that looks good just now with pipex £14.99 / month with 2
> free months, free modem and free connection. The bandwidth limit is 1 GB.
>
> Do you think general web browsing (e.g. reading bbc news, ebay, email) of a
> an hour or 2 every few nights would use over 1GB bandwidth in a month?

In our house there's me, mainly surfing around Usenet for an hour or two per
day, and our two lads each with their own PC, chatting away on MSN, swapping
mp3s, and downloading a few tracks per week.

Our combined monthly usage is between 1.5 and just over 2GB per month.

In short I think your friend will be fine at 1GB/m

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> They are looking at getting broadband and only use the internet for web
> browsing, no downloading files etc.
>
> There is a deal that looks good just now with pipex £14.99 / month with 2
> free months, free modem and free connection. The bandwidth limit is 1 GB.
>
> Do you think general web browsing (e.g. reading bbc news, ebay, email) of
> a
> an hour or 2 every few nights would use over 1GB bandwidth in a month?


There are better deals than that available particularly those with a much
higher bandwidth. They will almost certainly need to do downloads of updates
to programs.

Peter Crosland

"Craig" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:437cd33f@212.67.96.135...
> Hi,
>
> One of my friends has asked me to post this for them.
>
> They are looking at getting broadband and only use the internet for web
> browsing, no downloading files etc.
>
> There is a deal that looks good just now with pipex £14.99 / month with 2
> free months, free modem and free connection. The bandwidth limit is 1 GB.
>
Doesn't sound like a good deal to me.....

Why would anyone want a 1GB cap, when they could pay about the same price
for an unlimited use service? I don't see the point in putting yourself in
the position of exceeding the cap when there is no need these days.

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:16:31 -0000, "Jim"
<private-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>Why would anyone want a 1GB cap, when they could pay about the same price
>for an unlimited use service? I don't see the point in putting yourself in
>the position of exceeding the cap when there is no need these days.

There's no such thing as genuine "unlimited use" for that price, there
are always caveats at that price point.

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"Muxton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:16:31 -0000, "Jim"
> <private-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> >Why would anyone want a 1GB cap, when they could pay about the same price
> >for an unlimited use service? I don't see the point in putting yourself
in
> >the position of exceeding the cap when there is no need these days.
>
> There's no such thing as genuine "unlimited use" for that price, there
> are always caveats at that price point.

Never said there was.
But paying 15 quid for a service that you know stops at 1GB, it crap and
overpriced.

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:01:39 -0000, "Jim"
<private-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>> >Why would anyone want a 1GB cap, when they could pay about the same price
>> >for an unlimited use service? I don't see the point in putting yourself
>in
>> >the position of exceeding the cap when there is no need these days.

>>
>> There's no such thing as genuine "unlimited use" for that price, there
>> are always caveats at that price point.

>
>Never said there was.

???

"Why would anyone want a 1GB cap, when they could pay about the same
price for an unlimited use service?"

....is what you said.
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"Muxton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:01:39 -0000, "Jim"
> <private-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> >> >Why would anyone want a 1GB cap, when they could pay about the same
price
> >> >for an unlimited use service? I don't see the point in putting
yourself
> >in
> >> >the position of exceeding the cap when there is no need these days.
>
> >>
> >> There's no such thing as genuine "unlimited use" for that price, there
> >> are always caveats at that price point.
>
> >
> >Never said there was.
>
> ???
>
> "Why would anyone want a 1GB cap, when they could pay about the same
> price for an unlimited use service?"
>
> ...is what you said.

Correct... and your point is exactly?????

The original post was asking if people in here thought that a 1GB capped
package for 14.99 was a good deal or not. I answered the question, by
saying 'no'. I don't think that 14.99 is a good deal for a package capped
at 1GB. I only pay 15.99 a month and this month I have exceeded 20GB of
transfer for about the same price that the O/P was considering paying for
1GB. So I'll reiterate my original comment.... Why pay 14.99 for a 1GB cap,
when 15.99 gets you a service that won't be capped at 1GB.

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:11:31 -0000, "Jim"
<private-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>So I'll reiterate my original comment.... Why pay 14.99 for a 1GB cap,
>when 15.99 gets you a service that won't be capped at 1GB.

actually you said "unlimited" and therefore fell into a semantics
trap.

The cheap accounts with no data volume limits may well have other
restrictions and hence aren't "unlimited" - you may fall foul of an
AUP or some traffic types may be restricted.

I agree with your main point, that it is pointless getting an account
with 1, 2 or 3 GB as the limit when you can have one with fuzzy
restrictions that would allow you to use 10 or 20 GB without issue at
the same price.

Phil
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