"broadband" hah

[beermat]

mindygoths company decided she needs broadband, so are getting BT Business satellite 500/1 for her.
Which, upon reading the BT openwound website ["fair share"] policy, doesn't mean 500Kbits/sec with a contention ratio of 1 (ie just her), it means just one PC. No lan, lan naughty. And the bloody bt openwound account will have a throughput limit of 750Mb per week after which one gets throttled, and further occurances of exceeding the data count limit means users "will be contacted by the Help Desk to discuss ways to change their usage patterns.".

WTF?

Yes, she'll be able to get big attachments (oh err missus) quickly, as long as she doesn't do it too often in the week...

I think I need to get my own satellite provider. One without such silly throttling limits. (500Kbps=apx 36Gb per week, so with a data throughput quote of 750Mb, she can only use 2% of the potential bandwidth!)

Ah well. Back to tins of baked beans and string. No naughty downloading videos or music for me.

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[beermat]

I have to pay 90 quid a month for BT ISDN line (business highway) & Demon ISP. for 64Kbps. certainly not cheap. only takes 28hrs to get down a CD (so getting things from eg MSDN for development is a bit of a joke)

What the bloody satellite (currently our only broadband option due to living-in-the-sticksness) service *should* provide is tiered accounts, pay per megabyte or similar tarrif ; if one uses the throughput (width (500Kbps) or depth (how much one downloads)) then pay for it.
To be limited to using only 2% of the thing is annoying.
It suggests their satellite system can't cope with anyone actually usuing it for any serious data transfers...

[poggs.livejournal.com]

OMG, I thought 'Satellite' was some trademark thing, not actually satellite delivery. Hmm - yes, tiered could be a good idea, or you could pay for anything more than 1Gb/period you download. Might make the thing entirely self-financing... up to a point.