Broadband - hourly charges

[TAC]

Yeah, another qu about broadband :rolleyes:

I've seen from other threads that Zen or Nildram come pretty highly recommended :) Looked at both webbies, with specific interest in hours on-line....not that I spend a lot, compared to some, but usu on-line for about 3 hrs a night. With Nildram that incurs an extra charge but not clear from the Zen webbie what they offer and what I'd have to pay extra for :confused:

Anyone got any pointers? I haven't been on-line for over a month & have enough to follow up without having to spend time checking out this sorta thing, if the sxoc guys can get me an answer quicker & easier :) Not looking for much, I just want faster download times and quicker uploads for piccies etc when I have to do it :)

Ta muchly,
Trace

[Rude Dog]

Zen was discussed back in Jan/Feb but I cant fing the thread. try a search as I am notoriously bad for finding stuff :rolleyes: :wack: :D
I also believe a member/user on here is an agent for Zen but again cant remember who :wack: May be able to get a discount installation ;)

[Papa Lazarou]

Looked at both webbies, with specific interest in hours on-line....not that I spend a lot, compared to some, but usu on-line for about 3 hrs a night. With Nildram that incurs an extra charge but not clear from the Zen webbie what they offer and what I'd have to pay extra for :confused:


It depends on the connection you choose. Nildram offer two entry level packages - one offering 50hrs connection time and one offering 1gb bandwidth limit a month. These are 19.49 a month. I wouldn't bother.

Personally would certainly go with the next option up, even if you don't think you'll use it more than the above. Thats unlimited connection time/downloads and is 22.99 a month. 1 Gb is feck all and 50 hours a month is not as long as it sounds either.

[Rude Dog]

BT dont charge by the hour or the gig. :thumbs:
Not as good as when we had Blueyonder though :(

[tim rome]

i have ntl at 24.95 a month, always on 500 kbps

[seb]

Freedom2surf - £23/month no limits.

[seb]

Anyone tried a cross-ISP ping comparison? I can pin www.google.com in an average of 27ms.

[TAC]

It depends on the connection you choose. Nildram offer two entry level packages - one offering 50hrs connection time and one offering 1gb bandwidth limit a month. These are 19.49 a month. I wouldn't bother.

Personally would certainly go with the next option up, even if you don't think you'll use it more than the above. Thats unlimited connection time/downloads and is 22.99 a month. 1 Gb is feck all and 50 hours a month is not as long as it sounds either.

I did a mouse hover over the modem jobbie tonight and it came up with the attached, for 40 mins of surfing. Initially my maths failed me (didn't notice it was bytes & not kbytes lol) but even so I think this would work out more than 1Gb/month assuming 2½ hours on-line... so now I'm hopelessly confused! Most of the cheap packages I've looked at are for 1Gb/month - think I agree with Papa that better to go for Nildram's unlimited access package....but I have this new house & I'm not sure how much free cash I'll have a month, and also Nildram start-up costs seem to be high with modems & filters etc :cry:

I'm being a bit of a wuss I know, maybe I want it all - but atm I'm on pay-as-you-go dial-up (@ 1p/min) which is money down the drain imo, and I need to sort this out pdq.

Sorry guys, think I'm just having a girlie moment here lol. I can get cheap, cheerful, not-too-good-but-all-included 1Gb connection from BT for something less than £20, or I can get no-problems-high-start-up-but we're-dead-good from Nildram for something more than £20 ...think that's the decision I have to make :confused:

[Papa Lazarou]

Can only speak for Nildram but you do not have to buy the hardware off them if you don't want to.

You can buy cheap ADSL modems http://www.ebuyer.co.uk/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=60068 and microfilters http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=661414331&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=43075

[TAC]

Thanks Papa :thumbs: Just the sort of useful info I was after :cool:

[Martin T]

BT dont charge by the hour or the gig. :thumbs:
Not as good as when we had Blueyonder though :(
BT also dont provide you with a service!
Plus they have capping plans :mad: