ZEN

Good deal chaps.
Dear Customer,



Effective 1st June, we are doubling our monthly download allowances for Zen
Lite, Zen Active, Zen Pro and Zen Office. This means the usage allowances
will be 10Gb, 50Gb, 100Gb and 200Gb respectively. This will be an automatic
increase so you do not need to do anything to start enjoying this increased
allowance and there is no change in price.

 

IDNet did this a couple of months ago. Guess Zen didn't want to be
left behind.

 

Download allowances? How quaint.

 

It's a strong word, but I hate you.

 

Do Be/O2 not offer a service in your area?

 

Haha do you think O2 offer unlimited data?
NOT

 

I'm guessing you have really pikey speeds too?

At the end of my current contract, I'm thinking of going up to 120 meg
down/10 meg up (from my current 50d/5u).

 

Will you lot shut up! (wails someone from the end of a line that
barely reaches 580kbps on a good day).

Yes I know all about moving and pikey areas but I like the views!

Kevin

 

On their unbundled service, yes. Or at least if they do have a limit,
it's very high, because they've never griped at my usage, nor that of
anyone I know who uses them. Do you have a different experience?

 

D/loaded >60gig over a weekend not so long ago

Limit, what limit ?

 

This may be of interest.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/26/o2_disconnects/


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"The new policy affects customers whose connections are not unbundled
from BT at the local exchange and branded as "O2 Home Access""

 

Obviously anyone sitting near an LLU exchange is to be scheduled for
extermination.

 

Point of order: why would you want a 120mb domestic internet connection. A
genuine 1mb of uncontended bandwidth would suffice for anything I do.

 

[snip]

aww - I thought this was going to be a Blake's 7 thread.

 

Forgive me for not hacking your connection to find out exactly where you
live and what deal you have.

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We could do that, if you like.

I just (5 weeks ago) finished watching the whole lot.

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1 megabit - what is this 2002? You're obviously not trying to shift
data around in realtime, or working over a vpn all that often.

I think 10 megabits should be a sensible target - the same speed
10base2 supported in the 90's. I get 12 down, 1 up, and it's
perfectly usable.

 

No need, I made it easy for you in my first post with the "unbundled"
bit...

 

Well, given you seem to be happy about having a download allowance
increased, I presume that you download stuff. Sometimes it's nice to be
able to download that stuff quickly.

It's also nice to be able to fire up a VPN and be able to use it as
intended - ie, seamlessly, as though one was connected to that etwork
as a local client. Achieving this requires a decent speed connection.
Especially if you want to move lots of data.

If one is a user of video conferencing, it's nice to be able to use it
as it was intended, ie, that it feels like you're actually talking real
time and. not. stuttering. all. over. the. place. or. in. r$eal^y p0or
qu4l1ty.

If you want to do all of the above, at the same time, having a decent
internet connection is also, really quite useful.

Add to that bragging rights and the "just because you can" factor, and
I put it to you, why *wouldn't* you want a stupidly fast connection
speed? (cost aside).