8Mbit Broadband to Become Available in the UK

UK Online is offering 8Mbit broadband service to the UK. The upstream is 400K, and there's a monthly download cap of 500GB, but at 40 pounds per month, plus 50 installation and a free wireless router in the package, that has to be among the best deals on offer from anyone.

Dear UK

[Letter]

Dear UK,

40 pounds? Now that's a heavy modem.

Letter

500 GB?

[thedustbustr]

Thats only two external harddrives worth of pr0n! Any self-respecting geek could easily reach that cap in a month.

Re:Dear UK

[civman2]

Not just 40 pounds. 40 pounds a month. I keep my cable modem on my desk, and I wonder how long it would take before it weighed so much that it fell straight through!

There is a catch!

[Anonymous Coward]

a free wireless router

And how am I supposed to plug in the network cable? I knew there was a catch!

Asian-style bandwidth...

[Anonymous Coward]

When I hear about how cheap and plentiful 100mbit is in parts of Asia, I sit back and cry.

When I have 30GB caps here, and have the standard cable setup for USD$50/mn makes me pissed. Hell for a mere USD$500/mn at work, we have a full T1 (1.5/1.5) what a deal! ... not.

Oh well, keep posting sad stories /.

I'll keep coming back.

UC connection

[Anonymous Coward]

Here on the grand old University of California network, I get about a megabit up, up to 3.5 down...

They have a 2gb/day per mac address bandwidth cap... but that's trivial to avoid... it takes four command line operations:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether (new mac address)
ifconfig eth0 up
dhclient

Of course, this connection is complimentary with my ridiculously overpriced education, so bargain/value is hard to compute...

Re:500 GB?

[game kid]

Any self-respecting geek could easily reach that cap in a month.
You mean self-pleasuring?

In an entirely unrelated story...

[trawg]

... UK downloads of major BitTorrent clients have increased by a factor of eleventy billion.

Eh?

[t_allardyce]

Sorry what was that!? UK customers are getting something thats not a rip-off? whats next, tube fairs going down!?

Re:Not really a great deal...

[gnuman99]

Move to Japan instead. Closer and *much* higher net speeds.

NOTE: It is ok if you do not speak Japaneese. That would be a problem only for people that require human contact - any geek does not.

Re:Silly IP question.

[ErikZ]

"Why does one person need 5 static IP's to their house? I mean... Isn't NAT good enough? How many servers does one household need?!"

Well duh. Obviously 5.

Re:8Mbit Broadband and still no....

[Anonymous Coward]

Atleast we can afford toothpaste, shame about the dollar going down, damn shame that.

Thank you, Thank you.

Re:P0rn, NOT!

[lewp]

To use Gentoo? At least!