Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
You can download between 6 and 11 but you will get in trouble if you download more than 30 gig of data between those hours in a month.

It's not so bad though, virtually all other ISP's in the UK now have a 40 or 50 gig total limit which means you cannot download more than that at any time.

I got booted from AOL for that reason.

Tiscali let you download as much as you like as long as its outside the hours of 6 and 11. If you download a lot then you need to be with someone who allows this.

I average around 250 gig of bandwidth usage a month so for £17.99 that is a F****** bargain even if I do have to pause my downloads during the evenings.
Oh! I see now! My 2MEG and the reason I've stuck with it is because I download so much and it's infinite download! I don't get capped! Hmmmm,this is a double edged sword because I download ALOT and I download 24-7.

Hmmm,I'm not sure what do to do guys....
Generally faster broadband is a double edged sword. In the UK we have the one of the shittest and most backwards infrastructures for broadband in the entire developed world. In order for companies to be able to offer ultra fast services they need to ensure that no other customers are actually using the service and slowing it down!

So the faster the service offered the harsher the restrictions replaced on how much and and at what time you can actually download are. Ironically a plain old 2 mb connection can actually be the best connection to have as you pretty much just get left alone as your not draining resources like an 8 mb user.

Think hard about upgrading if right now you are able to download as much as you'd like when you like. Moving upto 8 mb might suprise you. You will get immense download speeds upto 800 k a second BUT those speeds will only be reached in the early hours of the morning. During peak times when you are most likely to be actually using it they usually cap you to actually less than 200 k a second!

I signed up with Eclipse and my 8 mb broadband was actually only 50 k second (1/2 a meg!!!) between waking hours and reached max speed for about 10 minutes a day at about 4.55 am

The rest of the time it was slower than dialup

It is wise to emember the Aseop fable about the dog and the bone before being lured and seduced by the promises of all that speed.