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Do Freeserve/Wanadoo cap all ADSL offerings?

From The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/26/freeserve_wanadoo_broadband/
Wanadoo UK is also offering "heavy" users a 512k service for £27.99 a month with 15GB a month limit. And its 1MB product costs £34.99 a month with 30GB a month cap.

Freeserve ended months of speculation recently by confirming that it had decided to adopt the name of its French parent, Wanadoo. ®

This is an excerpt from an article on The Register about FS/Wanadoo's new £17.99 capped (2gb) 512k service.

The lines at the bottom suggest that Wanadoo already cap their standard 512k and 1mbps services - is this the case? What are the penalties of going over these caps?

I don't generally recommend FS for a number of reasons, but if these caps are true, it seems to me they are very bad value for money (given their relatively expensive monthly fee) so there is no chance of me doing so in the future.

There are plenty of cheaper ADSL ISPs with no cap and the option for short-term contracts.
 
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Not directly Freeserve related but here are a few comments about what some ISPs think about usage -

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Well I`m about to leave Freeserve dial-up in a couple of days time and then I`ll be online with Zen (who seem least bothered by usage). :)
 
akbray said:
This is an excerpt from an article on The Register about FS/Wanadoo's new £17.99 capped (2gb) 512k service.

The lines at the bottom suggest that Wanadoo already cap their standard 512k and 1mbps services - is this the case? What are the penalties of going over these caps?

I don't generally recommend FS for a number of reasons, but if these caps are true, it seems to me they are very bad value for money (given their relatively expensive monthly fee) so there is no chance of me doing so in the future.

There are plenty of cheaper ADSL ISPs with no cap and the option for short-term contracts.

There is no cap at the moment AFAIK....

However, this is the way most sustainable ISPs will go I believe.

Zen are a small company, so we shall see (not to say they are bad) ..
 
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Norfett, why would a company offer zero contention on their network if they were going to start capping -

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Bob2002 said:
Norfett, why would a company offer zero contention on their network if they were going to start capping -

They also claim they are the fastest in the UK...

Hmm, somehow think Telewest Blueyonder would disagree...

however, they are still relatively small as an ISP - last I heard had only around 8000 home customers.
 
Well up until the 3mb bb comes out it could be argued that zen was faster than Blueyonder - it did SDSL upto 2mb.

As for the claim - its really about been top in last months adslguide speed tests.

I also think there home customer base must be well over 8000 as when I was with them 3 years back they had about 1.5k home users.

Its not actually that young either - its been arround since '95 - longer than most ISPs in this country.
 
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Robert Naylor said:
Well up until the 3mb bb comes out it could be argued that zen was faster than Blueyonder - it did SDSL upto 2mb.

As for the claim - its really about been top in last months adslguide speed tests.

I also think there home customer base must be well over 8000 as when I was with them 3 years back they had about 1.5k home users.

Its not actually that young either - its been arround since '95 - longer than most ISPs in this country.

True, but the 8k is a figure I got from one of their own staff - that business is more their thing. although that figure is from about a year ago now :)

Yes, but Blueyonder's claim is its the fastest residential service - which it is - SDSL is far too expensive for home users AFAIK...
 
''ZenADSL Broadband is the fastest in the UK.''

if you read better you would see Zen Saying adsl not sdsl or cable like blueyonder, so they can shout there mouth of about being the fastest adsl provider at the moment and good for them
 
In what way will they be restricted?

Oh well....I'm not recommending Wanadoo then. Not that I was anyway.
 
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