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Hello.
Am currently looking into broadband ISPs, and there's a deal which limits you monthly bandwith to 2GB. I don't download music, but I do download some film trailers/game trailers every now and then.
What I was really wondering - does this affect online play much? I mean, does using Xbox Live or my PC for gaming online dwindle this limit rapidly, or is it really irrelevant?
Am currently looking into broadband ISPs, and there's a deal which limits you monthly bandwith to 2GB. I don't download music, but I do download some film trailers/game trailers every now and then.
What I was really wondering - does this affect online play much? I mean, does using Xbox Live or my PC for gaming online dwindle this limit rapidly, or is it really irrelevant?
When I looked for Broadband I found Pipex best. 23.44 512kb uncapped.
Suit nearly all people down to the ground, dont go for any capped stuff, when you have broadband you'll be downloading legally trailers and funny clips of movies etc, a few of those could run into 100mb easily. In ONE day, EASILY.
Suit nearly all people down to the ground, dont go for any capped stuff, when you have broadband you'll be downloading legally trailers and funny clips of movies etc, a few of those could run into 100mb easily. In ONE day, EASILY.
Captain Scarlet wrote:
> 2 gigs per month, I bet they claim to be the cheapest ISP ever like BT
> with there 19.99 a month package with 1 gig limit, these companies
> make me sick, I'm ok with the whole limited bandwidth but a huge ISP
> like BT can buy 1 gig of bandwidth for less than a quid, you'd think
> they would empose a realistic limit
No Pipex dont say there the cheapest. Pipex are one of the big players in ADSL and have had cheap prices for years. Some ADSL ISPs are coming in a little cheaper with unlimited services but some do not allow p2p or are basic packages with out newsgroups etc. Pipex do unlimited 512K for £23.44, you get webspace, BBCi, email, newsgroups etc so the whole package for a cheap price. There maybe companies that beat that but Pipex deliver a great service.
I do aggree 1 or 2Gb a month is pretty stupid, for 512K I would say make it 3 or 4Gb and double that for 1Mb if your on a capped service. One thing to remember is that it costs an ISP something like £13.99 a month to rent a 512K line from BT, so an ISP needs to add money onto that to actually make any money from you.
I think capped services have the place in the market as people do want broadband to be able to stay connected 24/7, have low pings and be able to load webpages faster etc. I am glad that ISPs have started to add 150K and 250K services, as people who dont want 512K but do want something better than 56K now have a pretty ok speed for the same sort of money as 56K anytime packages. I think before we can move to cheap 1Mb(sub £20) and even sub £30 2Mb there needs to be more subscribers to ADSL to push the prices set by BT down.
> 2 gigs per month, I bet they claim to be the cheapest ISP ever like BT
> with there 19.99 a month package with 1 gig limit, these companies
> make me sick, I'm ok with the whole limited bandwidth but a huge ISP
> like BT can buy 1 gig of bandwidth for less than a quid, you'd think
> they would empose a realistic limit
No Pipex dont say there the cheapest. Pipex are one of the big players in ADSL and have had cheap prices for years. Some ADSL ISPs are coming in a little cheaper with unlimited services but some do not allow p2p or are basic packages with out newsgroups etc. Pipex do unlimited 512K for £23.44, you get webspace, BBCi, email, newsgroups etc so the whole package for a cheap price. There maybe companies that beat that but Pipex deliver a great service.
I do aggree 1 or 2Gb a month is pretty stupid, for 512K I would say make it 3 or 4Gb and double that for 1Mb if your on a capped service. One thing to remember is that it costs an ISP something like £13.99 a month to rent a 512K line from BT, so an ISP needs to add money onto that to actually make any money from you.
I think capped services have the place in the market as people do want broadband to be able to stay connected 24/7, have low pings and be able to load webpages faster etc. I am glad that ISPs have started to add 150K and 250K services, as people who dont want 512K but do want something better than 56K now have a pretty ok speed for the same sort of money as 56K anytime packages. I think before we can move to cheap 1Mb(sub £20) and even sub £30 2Mb there needs to be more subscribers to ADSL to push the prices set by BT down.
2 gigs per month, I bet they claim to be the cheapest ISP ever like BT with there 19.99 a month package with 1 gig limit, these companies make me sick, I'm ok with the whole limited bandwidth but a huge ISP like BT can buy 1 gig of bandwidth for less than a quid, you'd think they would empose a realistic limit
What ISP are you looking at? Because Pipex have introduced some new services which have caps on them which are cheaper. They now offer
unlimited 150K for £15.99
unlimited 250K for £17.99
1GB a month 512K for £19.99
unlimited 512K for £23.44
2Gb a month 1Mb for £28.99
unlimited 1Mb for £33.99
For the capped services you can buy and extra 1Gb for £3 or something. For the money spend the extra few pounds on unlimited services as XBox Live or online PC games could easily take you over 1Gb in a month depending on how much you play online, and downloading files, surfing the internet will mean high bandwidth rates.
PC gaming can use maybe 20Mb for a couple of hours. XBox Live is usually using more from what I remember. Looking at the prices if you get 1Gb 512K service go over 2Gb in a month and your spending more than a unlimited 512K service. You say you dont download much but if your on dial-up you havent got the speed to do so. But with Broadband you can get easily get 200mb in 1 hour on 512K and 400mb on 1Mb. 5 Hours of full speed and your monthly limit on both of them is used up.
unlimited 150K for £15.99
unlimited 250K for £17.99
1GB a month 512K for £19.99
unlimited 512K for £23.44
2Gb a month 1Mb for £28.99
unlimited 1Mb for £33.99
For the capped services you can buy and extra 1Gb for £3 or something. For the money spend the extra few pounds on unlimited services as XBox Live or online PC games could easily take you over 1Gb in a month depending on how much you play online, and downloading files, surfing the internet will mean high bandwidth rates.
PC gaming can use maybe 20Mb for a couple of hours. XBox Live is usually using more from what I remember. Looking at the prices if you get 1Gb 512K service go over 2Gb in a month and your spending more than a unlimited 512K service. You say you dont download much but if your on dial-up you havent got the speed to do so. But with Broadband you can get easily get 200mb in 1 hour on 512K and 400mb on 1Mb. 5 Hours of full speed and your monthly limit on both of them is used up.
www.force9.net, cheaper than most ISPs, excellent tech support, only £24.99 with free activation and modem, or £21.99 p/m for the service only.
O, and no bandwidth limitations to worry about. Limiting you to 2Gb is rubbish. I got my broadband on wednesday and have downloaded about 4Gbs already over these 4 days.
Dan.
O, and no bandwidth limitations to worry about. Limiting you to 2Gb is rubbish. I got my broadband on wednesday and have downloaded about 4Gbs already over these 4 days.
Dan.
2 GB is hardly anything, you'll easily got over that if you play games online.
NTL do 1GB a day which is more than enough for 99% of people, except the people who claim that they have to download their Linux distributions every day!
NTL do 1GB a day which is more than enough for 99% of people, except the people who claim that they have to download their Linux distributions every day!
I'd advise against it. I don't know how much Live uses, but I find it very easy to use a good few hundred megabytes a day just surfing, not even downloading things.
2 Gb isn't all that much. Don't know who you were looking at, but the capped deals like that often have uncapped deals for only a couple of pounds extra.
Plus, if you have broadband, you might download stuff.
2 Gb isn't all that much. Don't know who you were looking at, but the capped deals like that often have uncapped deals for only a couple of pounds extra.
Plus, if you have broadband, you might download stuff.
Hello.
Am currently looking into broadband ISPs, and there's a deal which limits you monthly bandwith to 2GB. I don't download music, but I do download some film trailers/game trailers every now and then.
What I was really wondering - does this affect online play much? I mean, does using Xbox Live or my PC for gaming online dwindle this limit rapidly, or is it really irrelevant?
Am currently looking into broadband ISPs, and there's a deal which limits you monthly bandwith to 2GB. I don't download music, but I do download some film trailers/game trailers every now and then.
What I was really wondering - does this affect online play much? I mean, does using Xbox Live or my PC for gaming online dwindle this limit rapidly, or is it really irrelevant?