I am one of those that have been sent the 'infamous' e-mail about
using too much bandwidth. I accept that I have and intend to modify my
behaviour.

What irks me more day by day, is that +net will not give a figure on
what it considers too much.

Their solution of shunting heavy users to one pipe is a monthly
rolling program, not a one off occurrence.

Without a figure, a given amount of bandwidth may be okay one month,
but not the next and nobody will know where they stand.

I will stick with +Net for the moment and see if this solution fails
or not.

However, I want to be ready to jump ship.

Does anybody know of an ISP that is not economical with the truth and
say an account is unlimited, but comes clean with a cap?

TIA.
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Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

"Dr Teeth" <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote in message
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NDO?

www.ndo.com

Been with them for a while now (ex-PIPEX), wouldn't fault them at all.

Simon

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"Dr Teeth" <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote
snip.....
While i loath to say it Wanadoo my ISP are honest about what you can use,
all their services have a cap, for me on dialup and a friend on adsl they
have been ok, could do better at some things, (customer support is a bit
thick when it comes to anything remotely techie) but hey like you asked the
figures are their on their site and they aint economical about the truth.
The news server is reliable, but only has 35,000 (approx, well its just
under ;D) groups so after PN that may put you of.
But hey they with regards to what you can and cant have in GB terms per
month are staright up front about it .

Dr Teeth <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote:
Could you give an idea of your current usage?
Are you on 512K/1M/2M, and is your line ever inactive?

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If that's the case, I'm off! :P

Simon

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On 17 Nov 2004 00:05:04 GMT, noaddress@noon.net wrote:

Rumour also has it that NDO's beta NG platform is +Net's.

Nildram says "NO download limit!" for their ADSL services. I've
e-mailed them to see exactly what they mean :-)
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:50:17 -0000, "Dave" <not.valid.for@privacy.net>
wrote:

Heck, I cannot use my bandwidth anymore without wearing brown trousers
<g>.

Nildram says "NO download limit!", love the capitals and exclamation
mark. I've e-mailed them to see if it is true.
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On 17 Nov 2004 00:06:56 GMT, Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

Last three months:

Sep-Oct 115.84GB
Aug-Sep 187.48GB
Jul-Aug 172.14GB

I'm on 2Mb and my line is inactive during the day (M-F), not so much
at the weekends. I'm trying to be good ATM, but without figures <snips
the stuff I'm sure you've read before about it>.

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"Simon Ough" <simon@NOSPAMmediabullet.co.uk> wrote in message
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Guess that shows even what non PN users think of PN

"Ian Stirling" <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hows about PN give the acceptable use figure first, after all its them that
has came up with the half baked scheme.

"Dr Teeth" <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote in message
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Wanadoo are honest about the caps they have in place, as i have already
mentioned, for a non capped download from a smaller and probably more
friendly company take a look here...
http://www.xifos.net/index.php?page=adsl_overview
(no download limit or time restrictions )
also have a look at...
http://spinier.net/
(who boldly claim...Whatever you decide, all our packages have unlimited
access, no download caps or allowances. Alongside our No Limitations
promise we also pride ourselves on our Customer Service) they also seem
rated well on http://www.broadband-help.com/home.asp ))
if you want a bigger provider....
http://www.eclipse.net.uk/index.cfm?id=bbhome
claim (unlimited broadband, no caps or limits on usage) again in general
they are very well rated )
HTH a bit for now, any others i find that look honest i will let you know

"Dave" <notvalid.for@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Opps also forgot to add to that list Freedom2surf, who do a capped service
but also with it allow you to download late at night without it being
included in your monthly cap )

"Dr Teeth" <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote in message
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Perhaps a more revealing question would be whats the '!' mark mean?

Dr Teeth <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote:
Ok...
So,
115+ 187+ 172 =
474Gb/3 months.
Or 158Gb/month.

I've had a particularly heavy 3 months of downloading (which was coming to
an end) and that's hit a figure that's about 90% of that.
I have not (as of yet) recieved an email.

Maybe 150Gb/month is the magic number?

"Dr Teeth" <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote in message
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I believe Plusnet have indicated this email was sent to the highest 0.3% of
users ( a couple of 100 people) who use 10% of all available bandwidth just
by themselves.

They have also indicated that "in terms of this exercise, the lowest usage
level for a customer affected by this was, averaged out over 3 months,
around 140GB per month. Most customers affected however were using
significantly more than this, a couple going into the 500GB a month sort of
numbers."

So perhaps you need to be under 140GB to be safe for the moment..

Regards
Sunil

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:38:18 -0000, "Dave" <notvalid.for@privacy.net>
wrote:

Well I can hardly imagine anybody BUT a non-PN customer coming out
with that.

Or even thinking that way about them.
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I went to the Net and all I got was this stupid tagline.

To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom

"Alex Heney" <me8@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Obviously not been reading many posts either in here or over on
adslguide.org then

"Sunil Sood" <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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LOL, oh the guessing game continues, are the PN users having fun LMFAO

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:36:44 +0000, Dr Teeth
<no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote:

If you can limit your high usage to just overnight and weekends then
A&A might be workable for you.

http://aaisp.net/aa/adsl/h3.html

For £27.02 a month you can get a 2Mb line with unlimited upload 24/7
and a 3GB per month weekday, daytime cap. Daytime however does
continue up until 10pm and starts again at 6am.

http://aaisp.net/aa/adsl/ubc.html

So if you can keep your downloads until 10pm - 6am then you would be
ok.
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http://www.norman.cx/
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"Dave" notvalid.for@privacy.net wrote in message
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Not, usually.....