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"BROAD BAND : what are you prepared to pay?"

Hi,
I am a 64k ISDN serfer ,which was sold to me at the time as a fast broad band service.Which it is not.And one day I hope to make the leap and go 512k, giving me lag free gaming. But what is holding me back is the price. £29.99 is far too much for me personally and I just heard that people abroad are getting it much cheaper.Some say that they only pay £14.99 for the broad band service .At tops, I wont ever pay more than 20 pound for the service. If it ever goes that low that is.

Skribble wrote:
> If its quality broadband you want paying sub £20 is not a good
> start! What you need is a service that has a few of those added
> bonuses to make your life easier (christ im begining to sound like a
> salesman). I have broadband at home and i too, like many of us, am on
> a tight budget! Plus Net do a quality sevice starting at £20.99
> a month for their basic package i currently pay £22.99 a month
> cos i have P2P extensions. Their service is great! My online ping for
> games hardly ever goes above 40! and in games like cs and Unreal
> Tournamnet this is a real advantage. I highly recomend them.....and no
> before you ask, i don`t work or them!

What is Net's URL plz tell me coz i have been waiting 4 ages to get my hands on AADSL/BROADBAND anything faster thatn my 56k. I think my modem should be in a downgraded PC it feels it cant compar e2 my Pentium4 2.4ghz chip!!!!

ive coughed up the cash def. better than my 56k.

I'm with Blueyonder/NTL and pay £25 a month for my 512k connection. (It's cheaper than usual because I've got cable TV too from the same people).

I've got the option of upgrading to a T1 connection for an extra £10 a month. If I look at that as only £2.50 a week for a blisteringly fast lagless internet connection, about 100 times faster than a 56k modem, then it sounds good. If I look at it as a £35 a month internet bill then I'm not so sure.

So I'm holding out until they offer a T3 connection, by which time I expect it will still only cost around £35 a month, maybe even less.

So I reckon £25 a month is my limit for now. Which to me is worth it, because I can remember the amount of time that I used to waste waiting for pages to load on a 56k connection.

you might think im just a wee bit simple, but is it true you get a 2mb line? how much?and whats ur best prices u get from 128k upwards, cos iam thinking of getting one a wee bit faster then my 56k crap line. did anyone get ntl broadband the day they gave free installation, cos i was on holiday. Boo. but it was a good holiday i have to admit.

Hello again, I have been away for a while, got married. I posted a topic like this a while ago and was told 'Pipex' was one of the better value companies. Didn't follow this up for finacial reasons (marriage) but intend to do so soon. Hope this helps. :D

Me and my housemates share a 1MB/sec Blueyonder connection which costs £35 a month.

I can't complain whatsoever, especially when I can download at up to 140k/sec.

i have got a 64k but i am getting broudband soon and i will only be paying £14.99. for a 256k.

I'm also with NTL, and £24.99 a month is a bargain for me. Even when I was using Freeola's dial-up, my monthly phone bill was often in excess of £50 per month - so I see it as a bargain.

Im on Telewest 1mb which costs £35 only 10 more then 512k and belive me its stonkingly fast. I downloaded ie6 in about 2minutes the otherday

Hmmm seems theres a lot of Blueyonders here :0) I bee with them since the begining about 3 years ago but longer for telephone and cable TV