[BNM] Best ADSL contract?

[Alan Pike]

 from the horses mouth:

http://short.zen.co.uk/?id=4c1



On 5/3/06, Alan Newman <alan at sensibledevelopment.net> wrote:
>
> When you say "capped" - what do you mean? Is this "fair usage" (cough)
> (volume capping) or speed capping?
>
> - Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Pike [mailto:alanpike at gmail.com]
> Sent: 03 May 2006 10:50
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Best ADSL contract?
>
>
> I'm still with Zen, what they've done for home users is upped the speed,
> lowered the price and capped, existing customers can either keep their old
> tariff and stay uncapped, or go for the new tariff and be capped.  Your
> folks must've missed the email . . .
> wouldn't go near the carphone warehouse deal unti they've stopped being
> snowed under, it'll be a kafka'esque nightmare when it goes wrong, as it
> surely will.
> I recommend my clients who want a simple life to go to moving-edge
> (morning
> lads) , they aint the cheapest (but cheaper than zen), the fastest or the
> prettiest, and you dont get a free email address, but damn they're good.
>
>
> On 5/3/06, Nick Wilsdon <n.wilsdon at e3internet.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I set my folks up with Zen about 3yrs ago but it seems that at £25/month
> > for
> > 512kb/sec* isn't so good now.
> >
> > They must be running some adverts for the Car Phone Warehouse over there
> > because my parents think that sounds like a great deal?
> >
> > SO what's the recommendation for a low cost, fast, no fuss connection
> > (mostly email, no large file transits or multimedia...)
> >
> > *which is odd as we bought a 512kb/sec line back in the day but the same
> > package says it has an 8 MB download speed now - do Zen not upgrade old
> > users?? We tested 3 times in a row on
> > http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > Managing Director
> > e3internet
> > http://www.e3internet.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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