02 broadband feedback wanted

Tazmanian_Devil

02 sound quite good! I am thinking of switching over from AOL.
2 questions though:
1. Do 02 monitor downloads
2. How much is the migration fee if there is one.
Thanks, Tazmanian_Devil

gcn504

Tazmanian_Devil wrote: »

02 sound quite good! I am thinking of switching over from AOL.
2 questions though:
1. Do 02 monitor downloads
2. How much is the migration fee if there is one.
Thanks, Tazmanian_Devil

1: The o2 broadband packages are for unlimited downloads and I certainly haven't noticed any throttling.

Not sure if that answers your questions but I regularly download and have not had a problem

2: The connection fee is currently waived

Tazmanian_Devil

Thanks for the quick response!
And yeah your answers were helpful.

Seagull

I'm with Zen internet and I have to say that the service is awsome...but it comes at a price ! My 2 sons both have their own computers and this months 50 gig usage limit is looming close (stands at 32 gigs and it's only the 14th). :eek: I'm thinking of swithching to an ISP that offers unlimited downloads but I'm hesitant of taking on a fixed contract, are there any heavy users on o2 that can comment ?

gcn504

Seagull wrote: »

I'm with Zen internet and I have to say that the service is awsome...but it comes at a price ! My 2 sons both have their own computers and this months 50 gig usage limit is looming close (stands at 32 gigs and it's only the 14th). :eek: I'm thinking of swithching to an ISP that offers unlimited downloads but I'm hesitant of taking on a fixed contract, are there any heavy users on o2 that can comment ?

I'm a pretty heavy user but cant put a figure on it:

1: I do a lot of ONLINE gaming
2: A fair amount of bit torrent downloading.

I remember with BT Broadband I was forever going over the limit which at the time was quite low (20Gb) but I'm confident that since going to O2 Broadband because of the speed of download I definitely do more file downloading and the knock on effect of the speed is I do more Online Gaming (better experience). I definitely not experienced any throttling and not (yet) received any warnings of excessive usage.

O2 Broadband is a 12 month fixed contract and has a 30 day cooling off period and can be got with unlimited downloads from as little as £7.50

moonrakerz

Seagull wrote: »

I'm with Zen internet and I have to say that the service is awsome...but it comes at a price !

After suffering with Tiscali & PlusNet I moved to Zen - couldn't fault them, but not cheap !

After a couple of years and a house move much closer to the exchange, I decided to try o2, wife has an o2 mobile contract, so 16mb for £10 sounded a no-brainer.
Zen gave me a MAC within 2hrs of asking, even though I was leaving them.

According to "samknows" I am about 650m from the exchange and was getting 6.5 mbs down and 370kbs up (ADSL) from Zen. The first couple of days on o2 I was getting about 13mbs down and 1.1mbs up - quite impressed.

After a couple of weeks I have "settled" at about 11.5mbs down and about 1mbs up (ADSL2+) - however I have noticed that o2 does seem a lot more susceptible to large variations in speed than Zen was. On quite a few occasions my download had dropped to 5/6/7mbs and on one occasion it went to 1.79mbs !

I am going to give it a couple more weeks, if it stays the same I might try o2's customer service and see what they have to say on the subject.

Seagull

Thanks very much for that info moonrakerz, I should have asked about o2's pings too as I'm a gamer and I've just read somewhere that another gamer isn't very happy as his pings are around the 80 mark, I get around 40 on UK servers, any other gamers on o2, how do you find them ?

gcn504

I find that power cycling my modem helps with any speed drop.

c29

fedupconsumer wrote: »

Hiya all

Im thinking of switching ISP's to O2 broadband what is the service like and the reliability?

thanks in advance.:money:

I have transferred from BT to O2 and have had no problems and the bonus is that for as little as £7.50 for O2 Customers you get unlimited downloads.


C29

Pssst

i was in the )2 shop the other day. The guy tried to sell me BB. It says in the small print that the £7.50 pm offer is only valid if you top-up your mobtel by a certain amount a month or something. Do they stick to this rigouroulsy?