IDNET Max broadband

[nathan]

Spoke to simon today as regards to BT's Max products that should be available at 5300 exchanges by the end of the months. He said idnet "will be taking orders". does anyone know if we will be getting free upgrades?

 

[FarFarAway]

I don't know but I doubt it. £15 for 8mb with a 30gb *kind of* cap? Nahhh!

 

[mimp]

heh yeah. you want the moon on a stick you do

 

[FarFarAway]

Well I just e-mailed them and they're not taking pre-orders yet.

Fingers crossed on news soon though

 

[mr_fishbulb]

I doubt we'd get it for £15 as the full price for MAX as it is advertised as £30.

But I have a proposition:

If we paid £18 per month for MAX but paid a whole year up-front then the total cost is £216.

Compared to a 'normal' person who paid a year up front - £330 (11x£30 as they would get a month free).

That's a saving of £114 to us.

At the moment we pay £15 per month (an a monthly basis) = £180 a year.

A 'normal' person pays £25 per month (on a monthly basis) = £300 a year.

That's a saving to us of £120 (more than the MAX on the price above, so is costing IDNet more).

So can we have MAX for £18 per month if we pay for 12 months in advance? It will be £6 cheaper for IDNet.

 

[nathan]

heh yeah. you want the moon on a stick you do

it shouldnt cost them anything to upgrade, all the hardware is already in place (bt's end, not sure about idnets end) and if they were to keep the cap the same.

 

[FarFarAway]

But in theory we could be taking up loads of the bandwidth of their pipe - so mefinks it'll be more

I'll get it at cost if i HAVE to

 

[Phnom_Penh]

Any news on this?

 

[FarFarAway]

I contacted IDNET and got this:

> Not a problem, please contact us after 31/03/06 when BT are due to be

> rolling out the service and we will regrade your connection.

>

> Please be aware that this is a Rate Adaptive service and as such BT's

> systems will constantly change your service speed to the best service

> your line can handle, this can be anything from 250kbps up to 8MB

>

> If you would like to discuss this further please dont hesitate to

> contact me.

And then:

The only pricing we have for the MAX services at present are on the

website. We are reviewing our prices in line with the 31st march roll

out but cannot speculate at this time if any changes/ new prices will be

implemented.

As soon as any changes are introduces you will be informed.

 

[nathan]

sounds good to me, wonder if there's going to be a bt network melt down on the 31st.

 

[FarFarAway]

LOL bound to be

 

[chudley]

Mr Fishbulb ! you wanna come and buy a new car with me, I would love to see the car salesmans face when youuse some of that Logic on him.

 

[outrunner]

Going by the online predictors, I should get between 3 - 3.9mb, a lot better than the 1mb I get now

 

[Phnom_Penh]

try using this one - http://212.23.23.177/calc.htm

 

[nathan]

A crude estimate of what your line is capable of is 8192kbps (kilo bits per second).

looks good for me

 

[outrunner]

try using this one - [url']http://212.23.23.177/calc.htm[/url]

Thats what I used

My line stats aren't too good, Attn 58db and 19db

 

[FarFarAway]

Being an ADSL n00b where can I get my attenuation stats etc?

 

[Phnom_Penh]

Being an ADSL n00b where can I get my attenuation stats etc?

If you've got a usb modem, they'll be in the modems config utillity, if you've got a router, they'll be in the online menu. What modem/router do you have?

 

[FarFarAway]

Belkin Wireless ADSL modem/router

 

[nathan]

it should be on the same page as the connection status on the web admin for your router.