Cheapest Broadband in UK?

[blobrana]

Hum,
why has no-one mentioned Wanadoo, which starts at £17.99 a Month?
See!

BTW the word on the street is that Tiscali is in financial trouble and consolidating their operations in the UK

[blobrana]

Hum,
i wonder why Tiscali are selling?
They plan to sell its operations in four European countries as part of an effort to repay an outstanding bond...
Bad news here.

Yeah, the lowest price (17.99) only does 2Gb per month...which is fine for gaming and occasional use - 30Gb is what a heavy user should go for...

[blobrana]

Hum,
yeah, that`s the occasional use i ment.
Though i`ve a gut feeling that (say) playing quake only sends a small amount of  bytes of data. ( i imagine that 1.5 Mb are used up every hour with normal surfing as well).
 i think that the latency has fooled you into thinking that a lot more data has been sent/recieved with a broadband connection.

Anyone know the typical packet size of quake (1500byte/sec?)?
(which may add up to 5 mb per hour-->er, thats works out at 13 hours a day for fragging, with 2 Gb cap...)

Go for it granny...

[blobrana]

Hum,
i suppose that it depends on whether you are hosting and how many people are being hosted.

 i guess that these new fangled modern PC games do recommend a bandwidth of around 64Kbits/sec per player (if you are the server), which equates to around 8Kb/sec max, (but in reality  3-6Kb/sec sounds right ), thats  still about  100-200 hours per month on a 2 Gb cap...

Which isn`t obviously what granny wants...

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