UKOnlione or Zen?

Zen is more expensive for 1MB than UKOnline is for 2MB. UKOnline has 500GB
allowance (someone said they class this as fair) which is fine for me.
Zen is monthly contract whereas UKOnline is a yearly contract.

Anyone any opinions on UKOnline? Do you get good speeds, low/no contention?

I think if I went with the latter I would have to pay elsewhere for
newsgroups though which means a higher monthly cost but then I wonder if
Zen's newsgroups will be okay or need me to pay elsewhere anyway?

Argh.. All confusing! :-)

Thanks for any thoughts!
Andy

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:52:31 GMT, "Andy M" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>but then I wonder if
>Zen's newsgroups will be okay or need me to pay elsewhere anyway?

Their news groups are fine. If you're interested in binaries
completion is very good, around 7 days retention, and no cap.

In article <42060502$0$45193$(E-Mail Removed)>, Andy
M <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Anyone any opinions on UKOnline? Do you get good speeds, low/no contention?

UKOnline only offer dynamic IP numbers as far as I know.

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Andy M wrote:
>
> Zen is more expensive for 1MB than UKOnline is for 2MB. UKOnline has 500GB
> allowance (someone said they class this as fair) which is fine for me.
> Zen is monthly contract whereas UKOnline is a yearly contract.
>
> Anyone any opinions on UKOnline? Do you get good speeds, low/no contention?
>
> I think if I went with the latter I would have to pay elsewhere for
> newsgroups though which means a higher monthly cost but then I wonder if
> Zen's newsgroups will be okay or need me to pay elsewhere anyway?
>
> Argh.. All confusing! :-)
>
> Thanks for any thoughts!
> Andy

I don't think you can get much better than Zen.

I stupidly left them for Nildram a few months ago, as I wanted a 2Mb
connection and Zen weren't offering one at the time.

I've now informed Nildram I will be moving back to Zen. If they'll have
me, of course...


Odie
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"Odie Ferrous" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...

> I don't think you can get much better than Zen.
>
> I stupidly left them for Nildram a few months ago, as I wanted a 2Mb
> connection and Zen weren't offering one at the time.
>
> I've now informed Nildram I will be moving back to Zen. If they'll have
> me, of course...

I'm heading to Zen from Nildram. Nildram have totally lost the plot.

In article <6ZudndF9vuno25vfRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed),
a.k.a Netfool says...


> I'm heading to Zen from Nildram. Nildram have totally lost the plot.


I'm thinking of going to Zen from {spit} Plusnet, but what concerns me
is that there are an awful lot of people who appear to be doing the same
from a variety of ISP's.

Are these 'volumes' going to cause problems further down the line for
Zen - bandwidth, contention etc? We've seen ISP's who've had to take
appropriate action against/due to over-subscription in the past, is this
likely again?

Zen have no intention of introducing 'capping'.
I moved to zen last Tuesday due to Plusnet's recurring news server problems
and their inability to fix it. The capping proposal was the icing on the
cake. I wish I had moved to Zen a long time ago.

"Tx2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) t...
> In article <6ZudndF9vuno25vfRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed),
> a.k.a Netfool says...
>
>
>> I'm heading to Zen from Nildram. Nildram have totally lost the plot.
>
>
> I'm thinking of going to Zen from {spit} Plusnet, but what concerns me
> is that there are an awful lot of people who appear to be doing the same
> from a variety of ISP's.
>
> Are these 'volumes' going to cause problems further down the line for
> Zen - bandwidth, contention etc? We've seen ISP's who've had to take
> appropriate action against/due to over-subscription in the past, is this
> likely again?

In article <420685a2$0$7724$(E-Mail Removed)>, address@is
[invalid].ok, a.k.a BIGEYE says...


> Zen have no intention of introducing 'capping'

So i see ..... but will they have to when the network gets full of ex-PN
subscribers and contention really kicks in?

> I moved to zen last Tuesday due to Plusnet's recurring news server problems
> and their inability to fix it. The capping proposal was the icing on the
> cake. I wish I had moved to Zen a long time ago.

Problem i have, is that Zen will cost me over £130 a year more than
Plusnet for a 1meg connection. There are alternatives such as NDO
perhaps.

This is because I used to consider Plusnet to be a good ISP whom I could
recommend to friends/family/etc, and as such, i have done OK on
referrals reducing my monthly subscription quite nicely.

Naturally, I will now be recommending the reverse to these folk where
practical, particularly as most of them have no idea about this new
policy. I don't believe Plusnet have gone out of their way to make *all*
their users aware of the "consultation".

I think i just need to bite the bullet, sign up to an ISP who may cost
me more money, but at least i'm comforted knowing i'm not supporting one
who has continuous service issues and is behaving in what i consider, a
dishonest manner towards customers.