[Wylug-discuss] ADSL migration

[James Holden]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:58:46PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 11 May 2006 17:19, James Holden wrote:
> > I'm not sure why you want to pay a fixed sum, because some months you're
> > going to be paying for bandwidth you're not using. What about when
> > you're on holiday, or just having a quiet month? You could benefit from
> > those quieter times.
> >
> Possibly, although we are rarely all on holiday at the same time ;-)
> 
> > PlusNet's PAYG accounts might suit you. You pay 14.99 as a base charge
> > which includes 1GB of usage, then 1 pound per GB of usage thereafter.  You
> > can avoid the unpleasant surprises by using the transfer watch tool to set
> > your own usage limit, which you can revise if you reach it.
> >
> > I'm not trying to shill for PN here, but the days of uncapped usage are
> > numbered and just paying a fixed monthly fee isn't the only way to pay
> > for your broadband - there are more flexible ways, and you say your
> > usage is unpredictable, so why put up with a high cost every month?
> >
> > Do you know if you can get >2MB where you are? ICUKNET don't seem to
> > offer the MaxDSL products yet.
> >
> From the research I did on Tuesday it would appear that we could.  ICUKNET 
> don't offer it yet.  They said "Later in the year we will be offering higher 
> speeds with the launch of our LLU services, and by December we should see 
> guaranteed speeds of 22mb rolling out across the country."

They won't be the only ones, by far!

> > PS: PN's PAYG usage isn't metered between midnight and 8am, so if you
> > shedule your ISO downloads for then you won't pay for them!
> >
> I'm fairly flexible on what is acceptable, but I first have to convince my 
> son-in-law.  He pays half of the bill :-)

If you're using fixed IPs on your internal network, and have a Linux
firewall box, you could do your own usage accounting and split the PAYG
cost between individual users based on what they use. That would be
pretty cool.

james

> 
> Anne



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