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Geek Culture / The Fastest UK Inetrnet Service Provider Now Cheapest?

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GatorHex
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 17:41 Edited at: 10th Oct 2007 17:48
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I just got an e-mail in the post today saying that http://www.bethere.co.uk were dropping their prices.

£14pcm Value 8mbps down / 1.3mbps up + unlimited usage
£18pcm Unlimited 24mbps down / 1.3mbps up + free fixed IP
£22pcm Pro 22mbps down / 2.5mbps up + free fixed IP

I've just given my old ISP the finger coz I was paying £22 for 2mbps/288k and there were download limits!

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Dazzag
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 17:50
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Cry. I'm paying a fair bit more than that for 1mbps/128kbps. They even charge per month (and installation charge) for a 1mb (kid you not) website if you are stupid enough to use them as a host. This is the main provider in Cyprus (total monopoly on lines like BT had). Love it.

Still, apparently we are getting 4mbps connections on the 1st of Sep. Oh ang on. Didn't fufill that promise... And I was ready to spend £100+ a month on that one too.... Miss my old 10mbps cable connection in the UK I do have a beach and 30C weather in october though, so not all bad...

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Benjamin
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 18:17
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Quote: "I'm paying a fair bit more than that for 1mbps/128kbps."

Same here. Well, about the same price here but the same speed. The maximum speed in my area was 512k until a few weeks ago.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 18:26 Edited at: 10th Oct 2007 18:27
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Yeah, life sucks when the biggest ISP on the island are total muppets (their main site has a 404 when you click on new products page ).

Check this out for laughs:-


Choke... Who needs totally free and amazingly cheap hosting when you have unreliable slow ISPs with nutter hosting prices instead eh? I would assume people here don't realise you don't have to host here. Duh...

I don't think that includes VAT either. And it's £CYP. So add about 15% for GBP (and another 15% or so for VAT), then double that for USD. Nice

Of course I can get a personal account (no adverts or companies!). Max size is 5mb, but only costs £5CYP to install and £1.20CYP a month to run! Bargain!

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kBessa
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 19:24
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You should live in my City. The rest of the country (Brazil) pays something like 30 dollars for a 8mbps connection, at my city I pay more than 60 dollars for 350kbps :~
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lagmaster
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 19:58
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be have changed their prices to be in line with their owners "o2"'s new products. if your on o2 contract, check the news about them offering cheap broadband.

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Veron
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 20:53
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Don't even ask me about my internet... dialup.... 3kb/s. I'll grab ADSL 2+ soon though, spending too much money on that damn phone bill!


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Robin
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 22:21
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NTL 8MB wireless + cable tv + phone line...£14.50/month
Just phone up your provider, tell them you're going to quit unless they give you a better deal.

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Keo C
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 04:57
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Quote: "NTL 8MB wireless + cable tv + phone line...£14.50/month
Just phone up your provider, tell them you're going to quit unless they give you a better deal."
It always works
Quote: "Phone Company:We raised your bill by 20%
Person: Well I might as well switch to the other guy
Phone Company: Ummm We'll drop your bill by 40%"


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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 05:19
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I have Time Warner Cable internet here in NYC, the down/up is 2MB/384KB for around $44 per month, no caps/limits. Not too bad for the over-charge-capitol of the world but it beats verizon dsl. They did just add that vios or fios thing to my area so I'll have to see if I can use their numbers to "urge" my isp to do better.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 05:39
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What's wrong with Verizon DSL? I use them, I've only had one very brief period of downtime that (I think) was their problem in the year that I've had them. We pay $14.99 a month for 768kb down service. I know it's slow, but my parents are cheap. We could upgrade to the 2.4 or something service for less than $10. Sounds like you are paying alot with your service CR, what does Verizon charge for their service in your area?

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 16:04
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I think its like $30/month for 768kbits down (which is really 96KByte) compared to $44 for 2000+KByte. Everyone I know who had Verizon DSL in this area always had problems and outtages etc, and they ended up switching to cable anyway. Plus they like to be very deceptive in their advertising by using the bits numbers to make the speed look higher to the sheeple.

at your current rate of $14.99 for 768kb/sec you'd have to pay $299.80/month to get the download speed of 2MB/sec which cost 44 dollars on cable.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 16:15
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Quote: "at your current rate of $14.99 for 768kb/sec you'd have to pay $299.80/month to get the download speed of 2MB/sec which cost 44 dollars on cable."


Where are you getting that number from? I could get 2+MBPS for $24.99 (I think is the number) a month here.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 16:27 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 16:30
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Quote: "Where are you getting that number from?"

from your post above...
Quote: "We pay $14.99 a month for 768kb down service"

i was just using it as an example of cable vs dsl at your rate, but 24.99 for 2mb would be a good price

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 16:52
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Ah, I see what you mean. My service is 768kbps down, sorry if I'm confused as that would be different than 768kb down(right? Bah confusing ). Well here's the plan page for Verizon...

I have the first tier of service on the lifetime plan.
http://www22.verizon.com/content/consumerdsl/plans/all+plans/all+plans.htm

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 17:04 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 17:05
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"kb" or "kbps" are the same, they mean kilobits per second

KB (in caps) is kilobytes per second

to find the real speed of a connection thats measured/advertised in kb or kbps just divide the number by 8

768 kbps / 8 = 96 KB

that second plan on that page is a better deal 3 Mega bits per sec down / 768kbps up


If i measured my cable modem speed like dsl like to advertise it'd look like this

16000 kbps / 8 = 2000KB per sec

they purposely make it confusing for people, so they dont know how to find for themselves which is the better deal.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 17:10
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Ooooooh, I see what you mean, thanks for clearing that up now.

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