Thread: What price for Internet Access

What [monthly] price do you think unmetered internet access shoudl cost ...

Assuming a freephone dial-up (modem or isdn/highway), so no ongoing call charges, what do people consider an acceptable amount to pay for always available internet access ....

What about cut off times?

I personally think £15 is a fair price for unmetered dialup access with a 2 hour cutoff.

Cheers

( I've not voted as £15 isn't there )

i'll try and add it as a price point ...

I think £15 but it depends on contention and cut-off times.

Slightly off topic, why does vB say 4 votes for £14.99, 4 for £19.99, yet when viewing http://www.forum2.co.uk/forums/poll....ults&pollid=23 it shows 8 members voted for 14.99, 1 for 19.99?

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Just to put this into some sort of perspective.

I can't get adsl where I live, so as a gamer, the next best thing I can get is 128k home highway. I pay Pipex £55 a month for un-contended 128k.

It still hangs up after 2 hours, which is the most annoying thing in the world.

Still 4th May, ADSL for me, Yipppeeee.

Originally Posted by andyb28

Just to put this into some sort of perspective.

I can't get adsl where I live, so as a gamer, the next best thing I can get is 128k home highway. I pay Pipex £55 a month for un-contended 128k.

It still hangs up after 2 hours, which is the most annoying thing in the world.

Still 4th May, ADSL for me, Yipppeeee.

Too late cos ADSL is coming soon... but did you ever consider BT Midband? I used to be forced into using it myself (aluminium phone line!!!!), but I can't remember the full details. Something like £10 per month on top of my Home Highway rental, I think.

However, 150 hours per month, but no disconnects IIRC.

Anyway, purely academic.

Bet you're looking forward to Jedi Broadband (May the 4th be with you!)

Jake

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Originally Posted by Provida

Too late cos ADSL is coming soon... but did you ever consider BT Midband? I used to be forced into using it myself (aluminium phone line!!!!), but I can't remember the full details. Something like £10 per month on top of my Home Highway rental, I think.

However, 150 hours per month, but no disconnects IIRC.

Anyway, purely academic.

Bet you're looking forward to Jedi Broadband (May the 4th be with you!)

Jake

I am indeed very excited about it in a geeky way.

Always assumed mid band was the same as 128k, never looked into it and would be gutted now if it's actually faster than 128k

Originally Posted by andyb28

Always assumed mid band was the same as 128k, never looked into it and would be gutted now if it's actually faster than 128k

I think Midband was just BT's own name for their 128Kbps service that you could bolt onto Home Highway. IP address was dynamic, but they didn't block any ports, so at least you could run your own SMTP server to send mail. Midband didn't provide a relay, which was pretty crap I only ever had problems sending to AOL accounts, but who wants to send to one of those anyway!

Drifted way OT here... sorry!

Jake

This poll is a bit old.. would it be an idea to close it?

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Oh, I never noticed the date, it was Gservs fault, it looked like an active thread, lol

Jesus, resurrecting a 2 year old thread - thats got to be a new record.

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