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8Mbit Broadband to Become Available in the UK

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cheap-broadband dept.

UK Online is offering 8Mbit broadband service to the UK. The upstream is 400K, and there's a monthly download cap of 500GB, but at 40 pounds per month, plus 50 installation and a free wireless router in the package, that has to be among the best deals on offer from anyone.

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  1. Dear UK by Letter · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dear UK,

    40 pounds? Now that's a heavy modem.

    Letter

    1. Re:Dear UK by civman2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not just 40 pounds. 40 pounds a month. I keep my cable modem on my desk, and I wonder how long it would take before it weighed so much that it fell straight through!

  2. 500 GB? by thedustbustr · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thats only two external harddrives worth of pr0n! Any self-respecting geek could easily reach that cap in a month.

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    1. Re:500 GB? by game+kid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Any self-respecting geek could easily reach that cap in a month.
      You mean self-pleasuring?

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  3. There is a catch! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    a free wireless router

    And how am I supposed to plug in the network cable? I knew there was a catch!

  4. Asian-style bandwidth... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When I hear about how cheap and plentiful 100mbit is in parts of Asia, I sit back and cry.

    When I have 30GB caps here, and have the standard cable setup for USD$50/mn makes me pissed. Hell for a mere USD$500/mn at work, we have a full T1 (1.5/1.5) what a deal! ... not.

    Oh well, keep posting sad stories /.

    I'll keep coming back.

  5. UC connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here on the grand old University of California network, I get about a megabit up, up to 3.5 down...

    They have a 2gb/day per mac address bandwidth cap... but that's trivial to avoid... it takes four command line operations:

    ifconfig eth0 down
    ifconfig eth0 hw ether (new mac address)
    ifconfig eth0 up
    dhclient

    Of course, this connection is complimentary with my ridiculously overpriced education, so bargain/value is hard to compute...

  6. In an entirely unrelated story... by trawg · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... UK downloads of major BitTorrent clients have increased by a factor of eleventy billion.

  7. Eh? by t_allardyce · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sorry what was that!? UK customers are getting something thats not a rip-off? whats next, tube fairs going down!?

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  8. Re:Not really a great deal... by gnuman99 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Move to Japan instead. Closer and *much* higher net speeds.

    NOTE: It is ok if you do not speak Japaneese. That would be a problem only for people that require human contact - any geek does not.

  9. Re:Silly IP question. by ErikZ · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Why does one person need 5 static IP's to their house? I mean... Isn't NAT good enough? How many servers does one household need?!"

    Well duh. Obviously 5.

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  10. Re:8Mbit Broadband and still no.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Atleast we can afford toothpaste, shame about the dollar going down, damn shame that.

    Thank you, Thank you.

  11. Re:P0rn, NOT! by lewp · · Score: 2, Funny

    To use Gentoo? At least!

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