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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. No by nagora · · Score: 1, Interesting
    That's the simple answer. Apart from the cable companies, who will all kick you for that level of usage, all the other lines are ultimately owned by BT and they don't sell wholesale unlimited lines to the other ISPs (nor do they reserve them for their own customers). There is no totally unlimited bradband in the UK because of this.

    Sorry

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  2. nildram 50GB limit by Jamesie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have the 2MB for £22.12 pcm service and there is a peak limit of 50GB and you can carry any unused over to the next month, all that happens is that they throttle you down to 64 KBs after you use all your peak download bytes. Additional 2GBs for £1.98 at 2MB.

  3. English equivalents of US units by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    I have the 2MB for £22.12 pcm service and there is a peak limit of 50GB and you can carry any unused over to the next month, all that happens is that they throttle you down to 64 KBs after you use all your peak download bytes. Additional 2GBs for £1.98 at 2MB.

    Sir Dude, what's the English measurement for Mega-byte? I mean, that's the US measurement and all, but isn't a mega-byte in the English system like, "X stones per pound per nut of wire diameter" or something?

  4. Re:maybe, maybe not by Millenniumman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1.b)They probably are smart enough to distinguish, and smart enough to know if they raised prices, FIOS would likely come to your area. 4. Port 80 is the standard http port, so they will certainly count it.

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  5. Plusnet by Criffer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Plusnet rock. Up to 8 meg downstream with no limits for £14.99 a month. And you get wide open ports and a static IP address. Great for bittorrent, hosting your own web server, gaming... And apparently they now throw in VOIP, just for the hell of it.

    And the referrals program means you may end up not even having to pay for any of it. Tell them negativezero sent you.