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True Unlimited Broadband in the UK?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the isp-fine-print dept.

Tango42 asks: "Next (academic) year, I'm going to be living in a student house with 4 (inc. me) heavy internet users. I can see us potentially using 50-100GB/month. Do you know any UK ISP that will accept that kind of usage without claiming it's abuse under some 'acceptable use policy'? We're willing to pay a bit more that we would on more restrictive ISPs, as it's divided 4 ways, we just don't want to end up getting cut off or throttled for going over the limit on an 'unlimited' account."

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  1. Seems like it shouldn't be a problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    My roommates and I are constantly downloading movies/music/games from bittorrent and I assume that our usage approaches your estimate and we haven't had a single problem from our ISP. I mean I was just tel

    Connection Reset by Host - Over Bandwidth Limit

    1. Re:Seems like it shouldn't be a problem... by Millenniumman · · Score: 4, Funny

      The parent poster obviously forgot that the internet is not a truck, and he filled up the series of tubes that make it up. It is a good thing ISPs are cracking down on this, because it recently took 5 days for an internet to arrive when someone sent it to me.

      Oh, remember to support bridge building!

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      Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
  2. Re:Business plans by Chris+Graham · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some buzzword help from a company director...

    In order to facilitate the delivery of high-end dependable data services, a forward-facing enterprise connectivity provider will rapidly leverage their contractual provisions to mitigate against otherwise impending client bandwidth-insolvency.

    Now the programmer inside me makes me hate myself ;).