Rob, Rob Beard wrote:
> I'm with Vivaciti (an Enta reseller) and I'm paying £30 a month inc > VAT for 8mbit (this is an office connection so it has higher priority > over home connections). I get usage limits of 45GB peak time (8am to > 8pm Monday to Friday) and 300GB off peak (after 8pm to 8am and all > weekend). Although there are limits they seem to be fairly flexible, > if I go over the limit I only have to pay the difference between the > package I'm on and the next package up, plus £5 + VAT admin charge. > I'd rather have that than have my connection blocked or limited. It's > also a 30 day contract. I'd suggest anyone interested in trying Enta, > goto www.ukfsn.org as they're an Enta reseller with the same prices > and they fund Free Software. I know its not the cheapest connection > but I've been stung with *cheap* providers and long contracts before. This looks interesting. Do you know if they throttle any protocols? Pipex, for example, throttle BitTorrent to 20KB/s which makes it useless! I also assume the allowances are per month. Is there an interface that tells you how much of your allowance you have used? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/