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I've had nothing but problems recently with my ISP (Orange Bag of Shite Broadband).
I'm currently paying for what is laughingly known as 'unlimited downloads'.
I'm considering going over to another service provider that only allows 30GB per month, but for the same price.

What I want to know is...is 30GB per month enough?

I'd say it is, my harddrive is only 80GB.

For me not nearly enough but since I take it you don't download films I'd say it is...

No I don't download films, but I do download quite a bit of music, plus all the other shit a person can get through surfing, e-mailing etc. etc...
What I'm looking for is someone who is limited to 30GB to list what they go through in a month to give me a good idea...or someone who knows what they're talking about.
That's not aimed at you guys, I'm after an overall opinion so all feedback will help.

There's no way you download that much music man, my entire library isn't that big. :|

I know...I altered the post to include all the other crap that gets done in that time period. :rolleyes:

For example...4 hours of surfing per day uses about 1GB...

Are you serious?! Wow...

Apparently...yes. :/

Well, that means 30 gigs won't be enough...;)
30 gigs per month for how much? What problems have you been having?

What problems have I been having? What problems have I been having!!!!!!!!!

It took me 30 minutes just to get on MB tonight.
So far I can only access this and the BBC!!!
And that's probably only because of cookies.
I know for a fact that so called unlimited downloads means fuck all because everyone is forced to use shared bandwidth, which means if things get busy....everything gets clogged up.
Orange are notorious for it...shower of twats!

I got it wrong saying 4 hours surfing per day = 1GB

Here's a more accurate breakdown;
Surfing... 4 hours a day
Email with Attachments...15 a week
Email... 100 a week
Downloading songs and short video... 10 a week
Listen to Online Radio... 2 hours a week

= 1GB PER MONTH

Wow...so much for the developed west. I have a flat rate account at 2mbs (20kb upload) for around 15 pounds a month. Smooth sailin' too...:|

Edit: So you were way way off? Take the fucking 30gigs then...:\

RT, the average film, dvd quality is around 700-900 mb's. So unless your downloading over 30 films per month, or 1 film a day. Or 60 porno's a month. You really should be fine.

Assuming you download a 100 mb cd. You need 10 of those for 1 gigabyte. So you would have to download up to the hundreds of music per month...

As for the bandwith, you might wanna fiddle with the settings on the router.

But yeah, it shouldn't take 30 minutes to go on mb with dial-up, so i really don't know your problem, unless you share internet with everyone in your entire apartment?

Looking good. :)

You have no idea. Read this...Orange Problems - Index - Orange Broadband, Orange Email, Orange Mobile Phones - OrangeProblems.co.uk (formerly WanadooProblems.co.uk)

I had this problem a while back and they seemed to sort stuff out, but all this week has been a gargantuan ballache.
:(

Thanks for the advice matious...much appreciated.

Double post again and I'll have to ban you!

Incidentally, 100 emails a week? What on earth are you up to?

we have 6 computers at my house all running off one internet.

Thats not counting me and my nephew playing online :D

smooth as butter.
you could try this
YouTube - Internet Explorer and Firefox 10x faster!

Just takin' care of business man. ;)

How many GB's a month do you use matious...or are you unlimited?

I'll check that link out too. :thumb:

I've never heard of this limit to GB here in the states. As far as i know its unlimited.

Then again i have mommy and daddy who take care of it all :)

I use Virgin media which is unlimited unless you download over a certain amount then youre connection speed lowers but the download amount is 3gb.....a day! Needless to say I have never had my speed lessened. I am on a 4 meg connection at the moment and it NEVER drops. This is going up to 10 megs for free in the next month or so. Happy days.

Which is bollocks.
When they say 10meg, they really mean about 8 and only if your area connection can support it.

Of course the area can support it. All the urb's are upgraded to take into account the bandwidth. Cable is the best ISP by far. I have managed to download an album in 90 seconds before now so I would say it's quite reliable and I can let a little drop if i am getting a 150% speed increase for nothing.

For some reason I thought you were on dial up.
The best deal I've seen so far for dial up is PlusNet.
They're the one with the 30GB per month deal.
The attractive thing about it is they can optimise how you use your time on the PC.
In other words (due to shared bandwidth) they'll monitor how you use use the web and prioritise what you use the most.
That way, the ones you're sharing the bandwidth with all get a fair go...unlike Orange who just let the whole thing grind to a standstill.

Home Broadband *<* PlusNet *|* Home Broadband Internet Packages UK

The only thing with cable is obviously having the phone too, but I have been with cable for nearly 8 years and was one of the first persons I know to start with broadband way back. On dial up the futher you live from the exchange then your speed drops. I enquired on the offchance and the most I could get on dial up is 4 meg so not for me. Not so with cable as it's fibre optic cable. They have plans for a 50 meg connection within the next 12 months-yowser.

Good site:
Samknows Broadband - Comprehensive Broadband Information

50 meg ?????

Jesus , my ISP is making a big deal about upgrading everybody to 2 meg just last week :(

Now this is serious speed. The WHOLE Encyclopaedia Britannica (32,640 pages of it) sent in less than seven seconds!
World's fastest internet will send Britannica to Shoreditch in 7 sec - Times Online

Didn't you say you have some shitty upload speed? I thought people on cable had great upload speeds...:|

Yeah unfortunately upload speed across the board is very low in the UK. Probably to deter from privacy. I can upload @ 748 k/s.

Wow. Thats surprisingly low compared to your down speed.

Yeah it is but I rarely upload anyhow so if I do I can put up with the slow speed but compared to down speed it is not the greatest really.

That's pretty good actually...I think that's currently the maximum in Croatia. Although it's still odd that a cable connection doesn't have a symmetrical upload speed. I would have thought that was the main advantage of an (optic?) cable, virtually unlimited capabilities for transmitting data...

I dream of being able to upload at that speed

288k/s :(

It definitely can be a lot higher but like I said, I am pretty sure that it is a small step to deter from piracy. I seem to remember reading that The U.K is one of the world's worst for piracy but don't quote me on that.

That's...outrageous...