Wanadoo Broadband

I'm currently on Wandoo broadband, paying £27.99 per month .(Current speed
512k. ) They've now
offered the option of paying £20 one-off fee to upgrade to "up to 2MB."

Not being very with-it about all this , would it be worth my while doing,
would I notice any significant improvement?

It does say:

Remember!
Not all phone lines are capable of supporting the speed quoted. If your line
can't support this speed, we'll automatically give you the highest speed
your line can support - at the same price

Shiela S

"Shiela S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm currently on Wandoo broadband, paying £27.99 per month .(Current speed
> 512k. ) They've now
> offered the option of paying £20 one-off fee to upgrade to "up to 2MB."
> Not being very with-it about all this , would it be worth my while doing,
> would I notice any significant improvement?

I can't answer your specific question, but I'm sure that I've seen adverts
for Wanadoo Broadband at around what I still pay for Anytime - i.e. ~£15.99
versus my £13.99 /month (I think).
Does this mean that once you've signed up for Broadband then you're stuck
with that payment /month for ever?

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:40:27 +0100, "Shiela S"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'm currently on Wandoo broadband, paying £27.99 per month .(Current speed
>512k. ) They've now
>offered the option of paying £20 one-off fee to upgrade to "up to 2MB."
>

It's a rip off. Most broadband providers are doing the upgrade for
free.

--
Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software

EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks.
http://www.easynn.com

"Malcolm Stewart" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> "Shiela S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:dig8bd$17k$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'm currently on Wandoo broadband, paying £27.99 per month .(Current
speed
> > 512k. ) They've now
> > offered the option of paying £20 one-off fee to upgrade to "up to 2MB."
> > Not being very with-it about all this , would it be worth my while
doing,
> > would I notice any significant improvement?
>
> I can't answer your specific question, but I'm sure that I've seen adverts
> for Wanadoo Broadband at around what I still pay for Anytime - i.e.
~£15.99
> versus my £13.99 /month (I think).
> Does this mean that once you've signed up for Broadband then you're stuck
> with that payment /month for ever?
>

No, I can change the package - I pay £27.99 for the highest usage package as
both my son and I use the computer a lot. There's a user calculator here:
http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/broadbandaccess/

Shiela S

Shiela S

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> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:40:27 +0100, "Shiela S"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I'm currently on Wandoo broadband, paying £27.99 per month .(Current
speed
> >512k. ) They've now
> >offered the option of paying £20 one-off fee to upgrade to "up to 2MB."
> >
>
> It's a rip off. Most broadband providers are doing the upgrade for
> free.
>

I agree with you - but I'm so tied up with Wanadoo that I can't be bothered
with the hassle of changing - I've got Wanadoo email addresses registered on
Ebay and Paypal, and I'm a comper so I've entered loads of comps and
registered with so many sites. And I really wouldn't know who to use instead
anyhow.

Shiela S

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:55:07 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>It's a rip off. Most broadband providers are doing the upgrade for
>free.

but paying means you get it when you want it, not on some vague
timetable. BT Wholesale charge a tenner + VAT for this so Wanadoo are
marking it up somewhat.

Phil
--
Tiscali - dialup speeds at Broadband prices, see
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=tiscali

AOL - the unlimited ISP of choice for heavy downloaders.

"Shiela S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:dig8bd$17k$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm currently on Wandoo broadband, paying £27.99 per month .(Current
speed
> 512k. ) They've now
> offered the option of paying £20 one-off fee to upgrade to "up to
2MB."
>
> Not being very with-it about all this , would it be worth my while
doing,
> would I notice any significant improvement?
>
> It does say:
>
> Remember!
> Not all phone lines are capable of supporting the speed quoted. If
your line
> can't support this speed, we'll automatically give you the highest
speed
> your line can support - at the same price

I wouldn't say you'd notice webpages are any faster then bein on 512k,
just faster streamin/loadin of flash/downloads etc...

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:05:21 +0100, Phil Thompson
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:55:07 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>>It's a rip off. Most broadband providers are doing the upgrade for
>>free.
>
>but paying means you get it when you want it, not on some vague
>timetable. BT Wholesale charge a tenner + VAT for this so Wanadoo are
>marking it up somewhat.
>

Regardless of the cost, the upgrade still has to wait for BT.

--
Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software

EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks.
http://www.easynn.com

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: Regardless of the cost, the upgrade still has to wait for BT.

Explain then how Wanadoo got BT out to do it at about 2am the same day I
ordered it? I think they may have input into BT's DSLAM control system.

A "paid for" upgrade is very different from the "sometime - don't know when"
upgrades some ISPs are doing!

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:04:24 +0000 (UTC), Brian McIlwrath
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>: Regardless of the cost, the upgrade still has to wait for BT.
>
>Explain then how Wanadoo got BT out to do it at about 2am the same day I
>ordered it? I think they may have input into BT's DSLAM control system.
>

BT will already have done the necessary changes and were waiting for a
trigger from Wanadoo.

>A "paid for" upgrade is very different from the "sometime - don't know when"
>upgrades some ISPs are doing!

It's the same hardware changes and line checks. Some were done
proactively. BT then wait for an order before activating.

AAMOI my free upgrade from 512K to 2.2M took a few weeks but I wasn't
in any hurry.

--
Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software

EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks.
http://www.easynn.com