Are Wannadoo OK

Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware of?

They are doing free modem & connection and £17.99pm.

Thanks,
Rick

"R D S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware
> of?

The monthly download limit...

Regards
Sunil

R D S wrote:
> Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware
> of?
>
> They are doing free modem & connection and £17.99pm.

Don't forget that has a 12 month contract and a monthly download limit of
2GB

You'll probably hear mostly bad things on this newsgroup about them; have a
look on www.net4nowt.com for more balanced views. Also see
www.adslguide.org.uk and www.ispreview.co.uk.

Dominic

"Dominic" <d.foulkes-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> R D S wrote:
> > Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware
> > of?
> >
> > They are doing free modem & connection and £17.99pm.
>
> Don't forget that has a 12 month contract and a monthly download limit of
> 2GB
>

Mmmh thats barely enough to keep patching windows.
Back to the drawing board.

Thanks, ill have a look at adslguide.

Rick

On 24 Jul 2004, in uk.telecom.broadband, "R D S" wrote:

>Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware of?
>They are doing free modem & connection and £17.99pm.

I used the Freeserve service from January 2002 to late November 2003 and
can say that I found the service pretty good (but others became cheaper,
and I moved to a 1 Mbps service for a similar price to that I paid FS).

I understand this 17.99 account has a traffic limit... All I'd say is to
look at sites offering streaming video (I used a 7 day trial on CinemaNow
and viewed/downloaded a few GB that week... short films were 600-800 MB)

If you only browse and check mail, then maybe it will be fine, but listen
to streaming audio and you can be downloading 25 MB/hour no problem... to
put that into perspective, you might use up the quota with 3 hours radio
a day, tough if you have a week off work... I'd consider others without
a cap, and put the USB modem away, as a router would help limit attacks
on your PC(s). Free connection is nice, free modem seems nice, but it
sometimes locks you into something inflexible. My 2p :-) Peter M.


--
PlusNet - good value ISP - <http://tinyurl.com/24ymz>

R D S <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware of?
>
> They are doing free modem & connection and £17.99pm.
>
> Thanks,
> Rick

Is this REAL Broadband - ie at least 512KB download speed? Or is it the
so-called Broadband which is really only mid-band, ie 256KB download
speed?

Also watch out for capping of data transfer quantities. Many el-cheepo
suppliers place unrealistic monthly limits on how much data you can
transfer.

Vernon Quaintance wrote:
> R D S <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware
>> of?
>>
>> They are doing free modem & connection and £17.99pm.
>>
>
> Is this REAL Broadband - ie at least 512KB download speed? Or is it
> the so-called Broadband which is really only mid-band, ie 256KB
> download speed?
>
> Also watch out for capping of data transfer quantities. Many
> el-cheepo suppliers place unrealistic monthly limits on how much data
> you can transfer.

It is 512kb download speed, but capped at 2GB monthly.

Dominic

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:10:18 +0100, [R D S] mentioned :-

>Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware of?
>
>They are doing free modem & connection and £17.99pm.
>
>Thanks,
>Rick
>

Wanadoo are a rogue ISP - they host voila.fr, gratisweb,com and
perso.wanadoo.es - which are being abused and are distributing/hosting
pr0n diallers - and have been for about a year. They have no idea what
they are doing. Steer well clear.

http://snipurl.com/7zm6

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:06:54 +0100, R D S <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Mmmh thats barely enough to keep patching windows.
> Back to the drawing board.
>
> Thanks, ill have a look at adslguide.

Whilst it is not promoted particularly aggressively (it is marketed
primarily to existing UK Online dial users), our "Virtual ISP" brand
UK Online operate a broadband service, with no download limits:

http://www.ukonline.net/broadband/

UK Online Broadband does not currently have an ADSLGuide forum (I
understand that this may change shortly though).

--
Anthony Edwards
easynet Ltd - Manchester
http://www.uk.easynet.net
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R D S wrote:
> Hi before i take the plunge is there anything that i should be aware of?
>
> They are doing free modem & connection and £17.99pm.
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
>
Stuff Wanapoo; check out www.pipex.com 512k, free modem/connection. NO limits, 1-month
contract (subject to £60ish cancellation fee. - no fee after 12months)