Best ISP?

Hi,

Using Zen Pro £35 for 50gb (no uploads counted), 1 email, webspace ,
Usenet (incl binaries), feel it's a bit expensive.

Any alternatives which are fairly reliable and cheaper?, would like to
have a bit of webspace and text Usenet if possible, average about 20 to
40gb a month.

Any info gratefully received.

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F-F
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass
on a sunny day that you realise how often they burst into flames.
- Harry Hill

> Hi,
>
> Using Zen Pro £35 for 50gb (no uploads counted), 1 email, webspace ,
> Usenet (incl binaries), feel it's a bit expensive.
>
> Any alternatives which are fairly reliable and cheaper?, would like
> to
> have a bit of webspace and text Usenet if possible, average about 20
> to 40gb a month.
>
> Any info gratefully received.

You could try Plus Net (ducks & runs for cover)...........please don't
hit me Graham

On 15 Sep 2006 20:55, "Flan-Flinger" wrote:

>Any alternatives which are fairly reliable and cheaper?, would like to
>have a bit of webspace and text Usenet if possible, average about 20 to
>40gb a month.

I've been happy with my choice (but I'm on lowest priority package and pay
only 14.99... paying more gets greater "peak hours" allowance (they have
defined peak as 1800-0000 - ie peak for residential users not businesses)
I'm allowed 20 GB of traffic *during peak hours* and there's an unwritten
limit (their "fair use policy") which probably means downloading 100+ GB
off peak would get stamped on, at my price level... higher levels exist,
costing 18.99, 24.99, and 29.99 from memory, allowing 30, 40 and 50 GB
*in peak hours* so depends if your 20-40 GB is all from 1800-0000 or would
some of your traffic (up and down are counted with other ISPs) be outside
those hours? As for Usenet, there are binaries available and text groups,
of course, with a long retention (100,000 headers for this newsgroup!)

Lots of other ISPs to choose from, and the fact I may get a payment (if
you clicked a link and signed up) will mean some would dismiss any of my
comments about Eclipse as being biassed. Well, I've personally used a
number of ISPs over past 50+ months and all have their good and bad
aspects (only bad one I can think of this minute is not having any way
to get stats from Eclipse about how much traffic I've used each month
but I know I filled 60+ GB of HD in the past couple of months. Check
www.ADSLGuide.org and www.dslzoneUK.net and see what others
have to say - I've certainly seen some people claim they found there
were problems with Eclipse Evolution level 4 (the 29.99) but it might
have been a bad month, as I've had quite a number of months of
good service, use video and audio streaming, download podcasts
and off usenet and using torrents too, with great speeds most of
the time (limited usually by the other end, I suspect). Good luck!

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"Flan-Flinger @googlemail.com>" <phlan.phlinger<g> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Using Zen Pro £35 for 50gb (no uploads counted), 1 email, webspace ,
> Usenet (incl binaries), feel it's a bit expensive.
>
> Any alternatives which are fairly reliable and cheaper?, would like to
> have a bit of webspace and text Usenet if possible, average about 20 to
> 40gb a month.
>
> Any info gratefully received.

AOL Silver plus Giganews Platinum. 100% reliable and no download limits. I
use AOL Gold myself but it's a bit overkill.

(kim)

"Flan-Flinger @googlemail.com>" <phlan.phlinger<g> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Using Zen Pro £35 for 50gb (no uploads counted), 1 email, webspace ,
> Usenet (incl binaries), feel it's a bit expensive.
>

Your already using the best, title should have been cheap and nasty.

"It's Me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:450b8faa$0$5740$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Flan-Flinger @googlemail.com>" <phlan.phlinger<g> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using Zen Pro £35 for 50gb (no uploads counted), 1 email, webspace ,
>> Usenet (incl binaries), feel it's a bit expensive.
>>
>
> Your already using the best, title should have been cheap and nasty.
Hi
I hear aquiss is quite good, gave their support a "test" support call late
one weekend, got a director - he was great and happy to chat - offered all
sorts of unbiased advice and seemed like a good guy.
key (I am also with Zen)

"kráftéé" wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > Using Zen Pro £35 for 50gb (no uploads counted), 1 email, webspace ,
> > Usenet (incl binaries), feel it's a bit expensive.
> >
> > Any alternatives which are fairly reliable and cheaper?, would like
> > to
> > have a bit of webspace and text Usenet if possible, average about 20
> > to 40gb a month.
> >
> > Any info gratefully received.
>
> You could try Plus Net (ducks & runs for cover)...........please don't
> hit me Graham

Smack !

I found ( even when my connection worked ok ) that a PN connection was horribly
short of 'bandwidth' btw.

Their news server crawls to a halt at times ( esp around 21:20 ) and I'm sure
it's down to their prioritising of traffic.

Graham

"Flan-Flinger

> Hi,
>
> Using Zen Pro £35 for 50gb (no uploads counted), 1 email, webspace ,
> Usenet (incl binaries), feel it's a bit expensive.
>
> Any alternatives which are fairly reliable and cheaper?, would like to
> have a bit of webspace and text Usenet if possible, average about 20 to
> 40gb a month.

I looked at Zen when moving from Plusnet. A bit pricy as you say.

I ended up with Idnet. Very happy with them. A first class outfit. Just check
their ratings at adslguide !

Graham

on 15/09/2006 at 21:55:42 Flan-Flinger wrote:

> Any info gratefully received.

Thanks for all the suggestions folks
UKFSN, will give them a whirl.

Cheers

(and of course you will all be flan-free for 1 calendar month except
the author with the PN suggestion)


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F-F
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass
on a sunny day that you realise how often they burst into flames.
- Harry Hill