Wanadoo 2MB upgrade

"You can upgrade right now and start exploring the wonders of faster 2
Meg Broadband today. Double your speed for a one off admin charge of
only £20."

"Gøñzølã" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote:

> "You can upgrade right now and start exploring the wonders of faster 2
> Meg Broadband today. Double your speed for a one off admin charge of
> only £20."

Yup, just did it here, took 3 days, and I'm peaking downloads at
251KB/s.

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Gøñzølã in uk.telecom.broadband on 29 Jul 2005

> "You can upgrade right now and start exploring the wonders of
> faster 2 Meg Broadband today. Double your speed for a one off
> admin charge of only £20."
>

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask. Is this £20 to pay for the rebranding
to Orange?

I'll wait until it's offered for free thanks very much but by then I
won't still be with Freeserve or Wanadoo or Orange or whatever else
they will be called in 6 months time.

On 29 Jul 2005 21:41 GMT, Steve wrote:

>Is this £20 to pay for the rebranding to Orange?

It's a bit higher than Plus.Net charge (at 14.99) but I guess if you are happy
to wait the next 6 months at lower speed..... seeing how people are still not
on higher speeds when work was expected to be done in April and now we're just
about starting August, then even 6 months might be optimistic :-) Peter M.

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Im with Freeserve, wanadoo or whatever they want to call themselves now.

But, Im wondering if there is a catch.

Do they upgrade the speed for £20, but do they cap the bandwidth to 2Gig or
6Gig, or do they leave you on the Unlimited account as i was on previously?

I have just emailed them to confirm, but not heard anything as yet, but it
is still weekend.

Other companies offer upgrades for free, but not wanadoo?

Nice how companies, treat their existing customers, leaving you on slow
bandwidths, whilst giving new users full bandwidth.

On 31 Jul 2005 17:20, "Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Other companies offer upgrades for free, but not wanadoo?

well, the bulk deal was costing a fiver per end user. Maybe Wanadoo did
not consider it sensible spending (I don't know how many customers there
are, but if it was, say, 1 million, then that's a fair few quid :-)

>Nice how companies, treat their existing customers, leaving you on slow
>bandwidths, whilst giving new users full bandwidth.

If you've seen the posts here in u.t.b over the past few months, there've
been quite a number of customers asking 'when oh when' and to some degree
the ISPs are not to blame, given that BT Wholesale seems to be needing to
regrade maybe 3 million connections... Plus.Net was pestered to publish a
schedule of dates, and these have mostly *not* been met (people had dates
of April, May, June and while some have been altered, some haven't yet no
change has yet been made to their connection). Some people have paid the
fees that the ISP charges (in the case of Plus.Net it was 14.99) for BT W
to do the regrade. BT W charges 11.00 +VAT (I think) so looks like your
ISP is doing a bit more profiteering than most (PN made the offer of free
regrading, along with lots of other ISPs, but still allows people to make
a request if they are impatient). I had been switching connection and on
returning to Plus.Net I was able to take advantage of the higher speed as
well as the low price (with no explicit cap - they have 'fair use' rules,
to stop people d/l 300 GB a month every month, mind I am only close to 29
GB after a month anyway...)

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"Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:dcitov$8ek$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Im with Freeserve, wanadoo or whatever they want to call themselves now.
>
> But, Im wondering if there is a catch.
>
> Do they upgrade the speed for £20, but do they cap the bandwidth to 2Gig
> or 6Gig, or do they leave you on the Unlimited account as i was on
> previously?

If you're on the 512k unlimited package for £27.99 then you can stay on
that. If you choose upgrade to the 2Mb speed (or 1Mb if your line won't
support 2Mb) then you will be placed on one of the 3 capping limits, 2, 6
or 30Gb whichever you choose at the time.

Ivor

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:59:43 +0100, poster <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> BT W charges 11.00 +VAT (I think) so looks like your
>ISP is doing a bit more profiteering than most

while slagging off BT for making the charge in an open letter type
advert in the papers :-)

Phil
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On 31 Jul 2005 18:39, Phil Thompson wrote:

>while slagging off BT for making the charge in an open letter type
>advert in the papers :-)

Really ? Must admit to not buying any newspapers and only regularly get the
free papers, though they hardly even get opened... just saved on one side for
the recycling collections... Of course I'm "missing out" on newspaper ads,
but that's not too much of a loss :-)

I've just seen the Guardian article "BT and Wanadoo in broadband battle" and
as to my earlier post, I was wrong on the numbers... from that paper, it
seems Wanadoo has 1.7m dial-up customers and 720k broadband customers
while BT is said to have 1.7m broadband customers. Peter M.

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On 31 Jul 2005, "Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>If you're on the 512k unlimited package for £27.99

They were charging me 19.99 a month for that in 2003... I was one of the
early 'wires only' trial users when it first went live... 29.99... then a
few months later, maybe August 2002, they dropped the fee for users (a
bit behind general reductions across the board from other ISPs... even
at 29.99 I had been fairly happy when I knew someone was paying BT 39.99
and was only online 3 months before me, under the free engineer install
deal the BT Openworld was doing back then.... Freeserve was slower to
drop prices, but it was still good value... just makes the price I pay
now so much better value!!)

Mine went down well below the 27.99 to the rate they were charging DSG
employees, perhaps using a start date as a way to select who got the
reductions and thus including some or all the group who had trialled the
service. I had been planning to leave (on the basis I'd get out before
they charged the amount owing!) but I need not have worried, they just
indicated we had been undercharged and it was their error, so they
weren't chasing us for it after all... Peter M.

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