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    Question About Your ISP

    Just out of interest i thought i would see who is with who and what makes them better then the rest.
    To see if your getting your money's worth or is it time to change.

    So what INFO would i like you to Post.

    • ISP Name:
    • Cost Each month:
    • Contract length:
    • Download Speed
    • Upload Speed
    • On Peak CAP
    • Off Peak Cap
    • How many POP e-mail address can you have?


    Thanks for all your Posts, will be good to see if any one has a better ISP than me

    Think of it like a Game of TOP Trumps using ISP's

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    Re: About Your ISP

    So i'll go first...

    * ISP Name: = Aquiss
    * Cost Each month: = £24.99
    * Contract length: = 1 Month
    * Download Speed = 8Mb
    * Upload Speed = 400kb
    * On Peak CAP = 30GB
    * Off Peak Cap = 300GB
    * How many POP e-mail address can you have? 5

    Enjoy

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    Re: About Your ISP

    ISP Name: = Be unlimited
    Contract length: = 1 Month
    Download Speed = 24Mb @ 22.3Mb
    Upload Speed = 1.3Mb
    On Peak CAP = N/A
    Off Peak Cap = N/A
    How many POP e-mail address can you have? 0
    Last edited by grizzla; 14-09-2007 at 06:26 PM.

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    Re: About Your ISP

    ISP: Zen
    Cost: £35/month
    Contract: 1 month
    Download: 2Mb/s (fixed - not available to new customers)
    Upload: 256Kb/s
    Peak cap:100GB
    Off peak: N/A
    POP boxes: 10
    Static Ip addresses: 8
    Customer service: superb
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    Re: About Your ISP

    ISP Name: = Be Unlimited
    Contract length: = 1 Month
    Download Speed = upto 24Mb (dependant on line length & SNR) connected at 22.8 Mb down/ 1.3 mb upload
    Upload Speed = 1.3Mb
    On Peak CAP = No Capping
    Off Peak Cap = No Capping
    Static IP - Yes

    Be. It's so so Uberly fast with silly download speeds and lots of cackles from me when items take seconds to download as opposed to ages
    Last edited by Lee H; 13-09-2007 at 02:50 PM.

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    Re: About Your ISP

    adsl chaps, can you post what you actually get, not what speed your plan is, if you see what i mean?

    ISP Name: = VirginMedia
    PPCM: = £38.00
    Download Speed = 20MB (although it still feels like 10)
    Upload Speed = 768KB
    On Peak CAP = N/A
    Off Peak Cap = N/A
    Static IP - Yes

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    Re: About Your ISP

    * ISP Name: AOL Gold
    * Cost Each month: £24
    * Contract length: 12mo (free DG8
    * Download Speed 3mb actual
    * Upload Speed 448kb/s actual
    * On Peak CAP none (speed is slowed i think 5pm-12pm dont notice it though..)
    * Off Peak Cap none
    * How many POP e-mail address can you have? 8

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    Re: About Your ISP

    ISP Name: = VirginMedia
    PPCM: = &#163;37 pcm for XL BB, XL TV & phone rental so not a lot really for the BB < &#163;17 anyway
    Download Speed = 20MB
    Upload Speed = 768KB
    On Peak CAP = N/A
    Off Peak Cap = N/A
    How many POP e-mail address can you have? at least 10

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    Re: About Your ISP

    * ISP Name: Eclipse
    * Cost Each month: &#163;14.99 (&#163;30 per refferal though!)
    * Contract length: 12 months
    * Download Speed At mo 3776 kbps (usually 6000 but phone line was down for a week so sync to kick in)
    * Upload Speed at mo 448kbps
    * On Peak CAP - 20GB per month
    * Off Peak Cap - NONE
    * How many POP e-mail address can you have? 20

    Woohoo I beat you all on the email addys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Re: About Your ISP

    just had a check & it looks like fifteen 30MB mailboxes for VM.

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    Re: About Your ISP

    Nice one People Keep them coming!

    Getting some good reviews from you all which is always helping me and any one else hopfuly on Hexus who is thinking of switching there ISP.

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    Re: About Your ISP

    I had Be unlimited as one of the ISPs in mind when i was about to change but unfortunate for me its not available in my area

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    Re: About Your ISP

    Quote Originally Posted by Workaholic View Post
    Woohoo I beat you all on the email addys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I have a few domains and use my pop3 boxes on these so don't use my ISP boxes.

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    Re: About Your ISP

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve B View Post
    adsl chaps, can you post what you actually get, not what speed your plan is, if you see what i mean?

    ISP Name: = VirginMedia
    PPCM: = £38.00
    Download Speed = 20MB (although it still feels like 10)
    Upload Speed = 768KB
    On Peak CAP = N/A
    Off Peak Cap = N/A
    Static IP - Yes
    Most people i speak to with vmedia say that they get capped download speed at certain times of day, what is your experience of this, may explain whi it still feels like 10Mb. P.S. edited my post to show my current d/l rate

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    Re: About Your ISP

    ISP Name: = VirginMedia
    PPCM: = &#163;29.00
    Download Speed = 20MB (clicky! - yes I am using wireless-g too!)
    Upload Speed = 768KB although I upload stuff to my site at 80-100k/s
    On Peak CAP = N/A
    Off Peak Cap = N/A
    Static IP - Yes (I use dyndns through my WRT54GL)

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    Re: About Your ISP

    ISP Name: = BT Option 3
    PPCM: = &#163;18.99
    Download Speed = 8MB (although it still feels like 10)
    Upload Speed = 768KB
    On Peak CAP = N/A
    Off Peak Cap = N/A
    Static IP - no

    Cannot fault it though - it just never goes wrong ....

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