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Given Up With Virgin - Cheap Unlimited Uncapped Broadband?

effortless
effortless Posts: 52 Forumite
edited 27 April 2009 at 5:07PM in Broadband & internet access
Hey guys,

I have been a Virgin Customer for coming up to 2 years. I pay £17.99 a month for 8MB Unlimited.

Unfortunately, even though I have closely monitored my bandwidth, I have been capped again to 10kb/s down speed for this week.

I rang up to cancel and my mac code should be here in 5 days. Where can I go now?

I did some research and:

  • I can not get Cable Broadband - Outside the area
  • I can not get the cheap O2 Broadband
  • I can not get the line rental bundles
  • I can not get the cheaper Tiscali internet (they are charging £17.99 due to being outside the network)
I guess this is the price I pay for living away from a big town. What would you guys recommend?

I'm looking for something with a decent fair usage policy as I work a lot with downloading and uploading videos (for legitimate reasons)

Thanks for any help.

P.S from samknows.com I can get:

BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max

Comments

  • Jakg
    Jakg Posts: 2,267 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    BT Option 3 - officially limited to 40GB but I take the !!!! on that and they've done nothing.

    The next one up is unlimited iirc.

    Still FUP'd though (i.e. torrents / FTP magically slow down at peak times).
    Nothing I say represents any past, present or future employer.
  • sporedude
    sporedude Posts: 1,563 Forumite
    I always take the !!!! from Virgins FUP, Only use torrents at night though.
  • effortless
    effortless Posts: 52 Forumite
    Sound good,

    I've been suggested O2 Broadband, at around the same price as I was paying (I am a PAYG customer).

    Apparently there is no limits with them and people have downloaded 200GB in a month. Sounds tempting.
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