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Unlimited, Any advantages for me?
26-02-2009 7:35 PM
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I sometimes download well in excess of 150Gb off peak and have not yet ben contacted.
If I was to change how do I opt to keep my existing static IP? This would be vital.
How much if any grace period would I get to switch back to my old package with the existing rolling contract?
I am thinking of changing because my current peak time allowance is not enough.
Re: Unlimited, Any advantages for me?
26-02-2009 9:35 PM
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We don't have a set limit on off-peak usage on either Premier or the BBYW products. We'd only contact you if your usage was impacting other customers.
Moving to Unlimited would automatically keep your current static IP.
Should you find the Unlimited product unsuitable we could move you back inside the first month.
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26-02-2009 10:19 PM
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26-02-2009 10:21 PM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
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26-02-2009 10:26 PM
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27-02-2009 7:56 AM
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27-02-2009 11:49 AM
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27-02-2009 12:16 PM
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27-02-2009 3:07 PM
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Please let me know how you get on with this product. Personally I don't like the traffic shaping that's applied and I will be very interested in your download experiences. Keep us all posted please.
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27-02-2009 3:15 PM
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27-02-2009 3:55 PM
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As long as the surfing, gaming and streaming are fine in on-peak hours I'd be happy to switch. I can live with a 1Mb download speed on a 200mb file for something like a patch, anything larger I would currently wait until off-peak anyway.
If it was any other company I probably wouldn't commit myself to a 12 month contract, but as I've been with PN since Nov 2003 and the service and support has generally been very good, I'm going for a 12 month contract.
I currently use only about 8-10GB of my on -peak allowance and about 30gb off-peak so I'm not sure if Unlimited would be worth it for me, but I will be using http://tvcatchup.com/ a lot more soon, as it will have some channels I don't have. and as it uses about 340MB an hour I don't know if BBYW 2 will be enough.
If I took a 12 month contract on BBYW 2 and found that the on-peak wasn't enough could I then change to an Unlimited 12 month contract?
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27-02-2009 5:49 PM
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27-02-2009 6:48 PM
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On unlimited peak time mostly is streaming ect (loads of it) i use tvcathup.com in my bedroom as i cant get a decent freeview signal. couldnt of done that on bbyw3.(cant wait for the desktop player of catchup.com)
I also dont have to think about gettin off my xbox at about 1am-2am to make sure my 2500kbps profile line has time to down load all the off peak files as now i can run unimportant downloads till about 2pm when rate limits start gettin serious.
and uploads are not capped at all. which is useful if you need to keep a ratio on private torrents. i had trouble keeping my rights on the private torrent site to download on bbyw3 but unlimited i have uploaded 3 times more than what i have downloaded . i have got max prem on my line(double upload) and bby3 use to have up caps which use to anoy me
An old BBYW3 user gives the thumbs up to unlimited
lets hope PN's network dosent crumble with unlimited use
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27-02-2009 8:44 PM
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@ Asbo - It's because of TV catchup and other other streams that I'm thinking of switching, without these I could easily manage on BBYW2.
When the desktop player is at release 4, TVCatchup will be like a freeview PVR online, with pause/rewind live TV, recording etc so I'll be using it quite a bit more.
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03-03-2009 1:06 AM
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