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[Sotos]

Crivens in the UK do you get unlimited downloads with those high speeds at cheap prices or they put some limits?

[Kent]

BT is useless and the best internet I had was provided my Uni. We all have huge problems with internet lately. Left Tiscali a month ago and still having problems with reliable BT! And I spend so muck money on the phone calling them and waiting somebody to answer that phone and end up with Indian guy who did not know what to do so i had to rung again and again.

Cyprus is a paradise even with expensive Internet.

the trick is not to use BT, or one of the other big ones that have been taken over by Orange virgin etc.

Personally if I was in the UK now I'd be Looking at Zen, idnet or the Like

try http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ and run the comparisons

I was with Nildram for about 8 years before moving to Cyprus but the've been taken over by the bigboys now and there support shifted at least in part to india, not like when I 1st joined where you could PM the Tech director and expect a reply.

Cyprus might be Paridise but its Boardband stinks

[Crivens]

in the UK do you get unlimited downloads

Mine did. Was £25GBP for 10mbps back in july 2006. There were cheaper deals where you were limited to only a gb a day or so (think they slowed you down to 1mbps if you went over or somesuch). Apparently pretty much nowhere offers completely unlimited downloads. There is always tiny text to state that the "unlimited" they use on adverts is upto a certain amount where they start looking into it. Think the one I was with was something like 30gb a day on average over a month. And if you did this for a few months then they would discuss having a word with you. It's to cover their arse in case you start killing the system with enormous downloads. I think at the time only the newest ISPs (less than a year old) would pretty much give you completely unlimited (to drag in customers) but I never saw anything that didn't totally change their ways after a few months or so.

I'll lay a bet that Cyta will release the faster speeds for the 1st of jan (assume 2008). Even they can't cock it up so badly as to slip more than that length of time on a planned release (1st of sep 2007 was the original date).

Cheers

[LENA]

BT is useless and the best internet I had was provided my Uni. We all have huge problems with internet lately. Left Tiscali a month ago and still having problems with reliable BT! And I spend so muck money on the phone calling them and waiting somebody to answer that phone and end up with Indian guy who did not know what to do so i had to rung again and again.

Cyprus is a paradise even with expensive Internet.

the trick is not to use BT, or one of the other big ones that have been taken over by Orange virgin etc.

Personally if I was in the UK now I'd be Looking at Zen, idnet or the Like

try http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ and run the comparisons

I was with Nildram for about 8 years before moving to Cyprus but the've been taken over by the bigboys now and there support shifted at least in part to india, not like when I 1st joined where you could PM the Tech director and expect a reply.

Cyprus might be Paridise but its Boardband stinks

too late now!

I will have it in my mind for next time! Thanks

[Lebanese]

An ISP in UK is offer 24 megs down and 2.5 up for 25 pound or so per month! but I have been told the cost of living and weather make it not worth the effort to try to move there.

The 5 Mbps is good enough for me , but is it limited and more important is it reliable? or lot of no connection and "server cant be found...."?

I need it for my business, and the connection in Lebanon these days is not helping at all! :s I am still delivering the products / services to my clients but I know I can do much better with a reliable high speed internet.

So, is it worth to open a small home/office there to use this connection! or it is not really reliable?!

Thank you again
regards

[Hazza]

My opinion is to get a twin WAN router, get 2 connections done with Otenet at 2mbps down/512kbps up. Bind them together to give you a fast connection. If one drops, you still have a 2meg connection to keep you going. Otenet is very reliable btw.

[Sotos]

The 5 Mbps is good enough for me , but is it limited and more important is it reliable? or lot of no connection and "server cant be found...."?

I need it for my business, and the connection in Lebanon these days is not helping at all! :s I am still delivering the products / services to my clients but I know I can do much better with a reliable high speed internet.

You want to use that connection for a server that others will access? You will be better off with using a hosting company for that!!

[mpanayi]

Anyway guys the conclusion here is Cyprus fraudband is lame to say the least, the tech support are just minion robots who put you on hold and scurry off to ask the answer which is always "restart your modem".
And as for the field people......grunts in boots. Cytanet is one of the worst companies in my experiance with third world technology at sky high prices.
Bring in some healthy competition and let those prices fall!

[Get Real!]

Eventually we will all have Internet access so fast that all websites will appear before your eyes instantaneously just like the screens of a software program installed locally but so bloody what? Big deal!

[craig]

I heard something about THUNDERWORX cable , anyone know anything about this?