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True Unlimited Broadband in the UK?

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. Maybe by x2A · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use blueyonder through telewest (cable modem), and we've had our bandwidth maxed out for long periods of time without any complaint ever. I'm not sure how many gigs this translates to per month, but it's about the most you can get with that speed connection. This is achieved through running p2p apps constantly, with a linux gateway/router to give priority to certain packet types (eg, so shareaza doesn't slow down ssh etc)

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  2. How much are you prepared to pay? by alanw · · Score: 4, Informative
    For £79/month you can have Zen's Office 8000 Max.

    One month minimum contract (useful if you are only staying in the house for 10 months)
    No bandwidth limit
    Excellent technical support
    Max ADSL - up to 8Mb/s, depending on your distance from the exchange and quality of the circuit.