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belldarr

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Re: BT Broadband
« Reply #15 on: 29 January 2013, 19:28:49 »
Be careful of the 10gb per month limit - they don't tell you your over it and charge a fortune.  We are about to switch to sky from BT as we have been getting broadband bills of £300 per qtr! we only use the net for gaming and browsing and I was shocked to see we were using around 45Gb per month.

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Re: BT Broadband
« Reply #16 on: 29 January 2013, 19:30:13 »
Quote from: belldarr on 29 January 2013, 19:28:49
Be careful of the 10gb per month limit - they don't tell you your over it and charge a fortune.  We are about to switch to sky from BT as we have been getting broadband bills of £300 per qtr! we only use the net for gaming and browsing and I was shocked to see we were using around 45Gb per month.

Darren
Jeez, even with all the hosting here, I don't use that amount.

Got to be some heavy downloads in that?
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Re: BT Broadband
« Reply #17 on: 29 January 2013, 20:08:04 »
Quote from: belldarr on 29 January 2013, 19:28:49
Be careful of the 10gb per month limit - they don't tell you your over it and charge a fortune.  We are about to switch to sky from BT as we have been getting broadband bills of £300 per qtr! we only use the net for gaming and browsing and I was shocked to see we were using around 45Gb per month.

Darren
Exactly! Weve recently moved and whereas before we were with Virgin (who I found very good) where we are now its either sky or BT as there's no cable. Weve halved the price nearly that we were paying for the virgin package with their vision package and download time is fine but our lad, who has aspergers, spends an awful lot of time on his laptop and the 10gb per month limit is nowhere near enough it turns out. Fair enough, when it went over the first month they waived the extra cost but at a charge of £5 /mth for every extra 10gb used each month this cost will ramp up considerably so we'll see what BT can offer when the better half speaks to them tommorrow
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Re: BT Broadband
« Reply #18 on: 29 January 2013, 22:16:41 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 29 January 2013, 19:07:18
Virtually all ISPs use traffic shaping.

Some of the larger ISPs in the UK have a court order against them to block certain sites who's only purpose is to promote illegal file sharing - which cannot be discussed here, as would fall foul of our guidelines.

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Re: BT Broadband
« Reply #19 on: 29 January 2013, 22:18:47 »
Quote from: belldarr on 29 January 2013, 19:28:49
. . we only use the net for gaming

Only ?

Gaming = big bandwidth

I don't do online gaming, I have a real life   ;)

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belldarr

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Re: BT Broadband
« Reply #20 on: 30 January 2013, 20:31:33 »
Quote from: Rog on 29 January 2013, 22:18:47
Quote from: belldarr on 29 January 2013, 19:28:49
. . we only use the net for gaming

Only ?

Gaming = big bandwidth

I don't do online gaming, I have a real life  ;)

I should explain that I have 3 children between 8 and 15 who all have Wii, Xbox and PS3 as wel as Kindles, Ipods, Ipads and of course Iphones so its isn't me gaming online - I am the mug who is out working to pay for all the above :)

Darren
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Re: BT Broadband
« Reply #21 on: 30 January 2013, 20:42:36 »
Quote from: belldarr on 30 January 2013, 20:31:33
Quote from: Rog on 29 January 2013, 22:18:47
Quote from: belldarr on 29 January 2013, 19:28:49
. . we only use the net for gaming

Only ?

Gaming = big bandwidth

I don't do online gaming, I have a real life  ;)

I should explain that I have 3 children between 8 and 15 who all have Wii, Xbox and PS3 as wel as Kindles, Ipods, Ipads and of course Iphones so its isn't me gaming online - I am the mug who is out working to pay for all the above :)

Darren

That pretty much explains it. I assume that you take it out of their pocket money ? Yeah right    :D   :D
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Re: BT Broadband
« Reply #22 on: 31 January 2013, 00:31:51 »
Quote from: belldarr on 30 January 2013, 20:31:33
Quote from: Rog on 29 January 2013, 22:18:47
Quote from: belldarr on 29 January 2013, 19:28:49
. . we only use the net for gaming

Only ?

Gaming = big bandwidth

I don't do online gaming, I have a real life  ;)

I should explain that I have 3 children between 8 and 15 who all have Wii, Xbox and PS3 as wel as Kindles, Ipods, Ipads and of course Iphones so its isn't me gaming online - I am the mug who is out working to pay for all the above :)
Darren

Been there done that with 3 step children, still there with Miss Vamps.....do we ever stop paying out?........ ::) ::) ::)
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