Cheapest "Unlimited" or >30GB ADSL Pacakge

Dear All,

Please can people advise their known list of cheapest ADSL providers (that
provide either unlimited or >30GB usage allowance).

My current shortlist suggests something of the order of £9.99 per month as
the most competitive. Unfortunately these all tend to be with 12 month or
longer minimum contracts. Ideally I am interested in the cheapest
non-contract (or short-term contract - a few months rather than more than 6
months), pacakge that meets the above usage requirements and approaches or
beats the target price (~£9.99).

Shortlist:

* UK Online - £9.99 - unlimited 1mbs ADSL - 12 month contract

* TalkTalk - ~£9.99 - upto 8mbs ADSL 40GB - 18 month contract (we can
guestimate the broadband component of the TalkTalk bundle deal as ~£10 given
that the total price of £20 includes line rental and unlimited calls which
cannot be worth less than £10 and is itself at that price less than the
going rate - BT / whoever).



That is basically it as far as I am aware.

All thoughts and input appreciated.


Best wishes,




News Reader

News Reader wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Please can people advise their known list of cheapest ADSL providers (that
> provide either unlimited or >30GB usage allowance).
>
> My current shortlist suggests something of the order of £9.99 per month as
> the most competitive. Unfortunately these all tend to be with 12 month or
> longer minimum contracts. Ideally I am interested in the cheapest
> non-contract (or short-term contract - a few months rather than more than 6
> months), pacakge that meets the above usage requirements and approaches or
> beats the target price (~£9.99).

You don't want much do you ?

Graham

"News Reader" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Dear All,
>
> Please can people advise their known list of cheapest ADSL providers (that
> provide either unlimited or >30GB usage allowance).
>
> My current shortlist suggests something of the order of £9.99 per month as
> the most competitive. Unfortunately these all tend to be with 12 month or
> longer minimum contracts. Ideally I am interested in the cheapest
> non-contract (or short-term contract - a few months rather than more than
> 6 months), pacakge that meets the above usage requirements and approaches
> or beats the target price (~£9.99).
>

At a tenner a month you are not going to get a monthly contract.

i suggest you drive around with a wireless laptop and steal someone elses
connection (NOT), failing that sign up to a decent isp and you can get what
you pay for.

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/ for genuine end user recommendations and
speed/reliability tests.

read reviews of your prospective isps before committing, talktalk comes in
at an apalling 37/39, ukonline 21/39, neither of which is good.

with your >30gb/month requirement i would guess that you are using peer2peer
software, many isps use traffic shaping to seriously stuff this up, so
beware of any fair use policies in operation.
i'm on my way to vivaciti, 30Gb peak, 300Gb off peak, 1 month contract, up
to 8Mb, no traffic shaping, text only ng access (no binaries)£20/month...i
think this is a bargain for what seems to be a decent service


"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
> News Reader wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Please can people advise their known list of cheapest ADSL providers
>> (that
>> provide either unlimited or >30GB usage allowance).
>>
>> My current shortlist suggests something of the order of £9.99 per month
>> as
>> the most competitive. Unfortunately these all tend to be with 12 month or
>> longer minimum contracts. Ideally I am interested in the cheapest
>> non-contract (or short-term contract - a few months rather than more than
>> 6
>> months), pacakge that meets the above usage requirements and approaches
>> or
>> beats the target price (~£9.99).
>
> You don't want much do you ?
>
> Graham
>

tony h wrote:
>
> with your >30gb/month requirement i would guess that you are using peer2peer
> software, many isps use traffic shaping to seriously stuff this up, so
> beware of any fair use policies in operation.
> i'm on my way to vivaciti, 30Gb peak, 300Gb off peak, 1 month contract, up
> to 8Mb, no traffic shaping, text only ng access (no binaries)£20/month...i
> think this is a bargain for what seems to be a decent service
>

I can't fault entanet so far.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/96952390.png

Be aware it does slow down at peak time, but not to a crawl - and
there's no traffic shaping as such. Just their "anti-loss tool" which
is very effective.

Loz >"anti-loss tool"
just signed to vivaciti (same pipes/provider) please explain what this
affects (please don't say torrents).

tony

"Loz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:essfll$ul2$(E-Mail Removed)...
> tony h wrote:
>>
>> with your >30gb/month requirement i would guess that you are using
>> peer2peer software, many isps use traffic shaping to seriously stuff this
>> up, so beware of any fair use policies in operation.
>> i'm on my way to vivaciti, 30Gb peak, 300Gb off peak, 1 month contract,
>> up to 8Mb, no traffic shaping, text only ng access (no
>> binaries)£20/month...i think this is a bargain for what seems to be a
>> decent service
>>
>
> I can't fault entanet so far.
> http://www.speedtest.net/result/96952390.png
>
> Be aware it does slow down at peak time, but not to a crawl - and there's
> no traffic shaping as such. Just their "anti-loss tool" which is very
> effective.

tony h wrote:
> Loz >"anti-loss tool"
> just signed to vivaciti (same pipes/provider) please explain what this
> affects (please don't say torrents).

Absolutely everything. But it's just to stop packet loss on the BT
Centrals, so it's not really shaping.

It's worse from 10pm until about Midnight since that's offpeak. All
during 'peak' times the centrals run at 7.2Mbps (i.e: the maximum you
can get from DSL MAX)

Right now the central I'm on has dropped to 5.7Mbps, but that means
you'll still get up to that speed on torrents or anything else.