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"Broadband - quickfire Q's"

Basically, is it worth getting the £22.99 a month BT Broadband package, it's 1MB and allows 15GB per month

I just want to know if I'd be able to download films as it allows 15 hours a day and also is 15GB enough to surf sites for about 2 hours a day (e.g eBay and SR)

Is it good for MSN and would that speed be completely different to my current Dial-Up Connection ?

If not, what is the best package ? (e.g low price, about 1MB speed, high/no download limits)

Thanks

Downloading films is probably the stupidest thing you can do at the moment. They're catching LOADS of people.

15GB will be fine if you don't download films, it's 500MB a day. However if you get caught in a porn vortex you could easily find this gone in just a couple of hours.

Basically downloading a gig of anything would take away 1/15 of your limit.
Limits are bad but if you only surf the web, download the occasional file and frequent p0rn sites then you should be alright.

Lard Funkelstein wrote:
> That's what I thought, most sites (porn exempt) wouldn't make much
> difference
>
> When you say illegal films ... say if I were to download a film of
> WinMX, could I actually complete the download in a few hours (like 5)
> on that speed ?

Well we're not allowed to discuss the downloading of illegal films on here.

However I'll say that if you were to legally buy a DVD, then rip it onto your computer it could range anywhere from 150mb to over 1gb in size (depending on format and resolution etc), and say you were downloading another type of file ranging from 150mb to over 1gb it would take from 25 minutes to over 3 hours.

This all of course being legal, and illegal is bad. Don't do it.

That's what I thought, most sites (porn exempt) wouldn't make much difference

When you say illegal films ... say if I were to download a film of WinMX, could I actually complete the download in a few hours (like 5) on that speed ?

Surfing SR would not really affect the download limit, whereas downloading films could - depends on there size.
The speed increase would be huge compared to dial-up.

If you don't use the internet to download illegal stuff then I would get it.

Basically, is it worth getting the £22.99 a month BT Broadband package, it's 1MB and allows 15GB per month

I just want to know if I'd be able to download films as it allows 15 hours a day and also is 15GB enough to surf sites for about 2 hours a day (e.g eBay and SR)

Is it good for MSN and would that speed be completely different to my current Dial-Up Connection ?

If not, what is the best package ? (e.g low price, about 1MB speed, high/no download limits)

Thanks