Any idea if this is something Plusnet would offer? Obviously Sky won't, I could try Eclipse again but they are expensive and f**ked me around before so I vowed not to use them again.

Doubt it to be honest, as they are BT.

Nige - not sure what you're asking? We don't use Digital Region (apparently they never approached us!). We still charge line rental @ £13.99 but unlimited 80/20 fibre is £19.99 in market 3 areas so it's likely cheaper than DR or any BTW based supplier.

im with virgin - no phone connection, just VOIP that I have even got working with Sky & Sky Multiroom after some faffing about.
cant see how they can legally force you to have a telephone number if your connection doesnt need a number. Im paying about £200 a month for my media  connectivities by the time I add them all up

Quote from: Maldonado on January 25, 2013, 12:35:51 PM
Nige - not sure what you're asking? We don't use Digital Region (apparently they never approached us!). We still charge line rental @ £13.99 but unlimited 80/20 fibre is £19.99 in market 3 areas so it's likely cheaper than DR or any BTW based supplier.

Yeah, but you guys have properly ballsed up the traffic management.
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/traffic_management.shtml?source=keymatch

Quote from: Maldonado on January 25, 2013, 12:35:51 PM
Nige - not sure what you're asking? We don't use Digital Region (apparently they never approached us!). We still charge line rental @ £13.99 but unlimited 80/20 fibre is £19.99 in market 3 areas so it's likely cheaper than DR or any BTW based supplier.

Basically I'm after a deal like Soopah has

QuoteI'm not with BT that's why. Fttc providers not on BT can offer metal path lines.
I'm on digital region which is south Yorkshire only.
I pay about a fiver for the line, and 25 for 40/10 but my broad band pisses on virgins and BT.

'Cos I see no point paying £150 a year line rental when I never use the phone. I don't mind paying a non-calls/cheaper line rate but every package I've seen so far you have to have £10-15 line rental on top which is a joke.

@soopahfly
Nope, I'm quite happy that I can pull the few mbps I need for streaming whilst saturating my line with a torrent and still be able to browse happily. There are no hard rate limits set to different types of traffic on Unlimited (this would be breaching Ofcom regs)

@Nige
No can do. Gotta pay line rental if you want any form of DSL down your line - except possibly, Digital Region, not sure about them. However, don't be surprised if the entire DR network goes tits-up at some point in the next couple of years... Reading up about it looks like it's being sold off anyway. In any case, I think DR works out more expensive than Plusnet?

To both of you - I'm no fanboy, but I understand what we sell and use it (excessively) on the 'civilian' product...

That's just from Sab.  Doesn't take into account any of my other stuff.
No traffic management, no blocked websites.
Usenet/P2P isn't QOS'd into oblivion, as the network was built with enough capacity.

Quote from: soopahfly on January 25, 2013, 19:22:59 PM
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That's just from Sab.  Doesn't take into account any of my other stuff.
No traffic management, no blocked websites.
Usenet/P2P isn't QOS'd into oblivion, as the network was built with enough capacity.

Sour grapes? we have 120gbps capacity and peak at around 70gbps usage. Did I mention that my 460gb is on my ADSL line? The only blocked sites are IWF = kiddy porn and qos /can't/ push traffic into oblivion, unless you CHOOSE to push your torrents out by streaming!

Sorry Nath, you're not going to win this one.

Let me put my money where my mouth is - Nige - sign up, if you're not happy I'll write the lot off, no contract. Can't say fairer than that, can I?

Not really, I just don't want BT anywhere near my telecoms.

A little late for that, perhaps? Who do you think sends out engineers for DR? ... Openreach

It's about as close as the get tbh

Nige - last chance for risk free fibre to settle this argument...

I can't sign up until my contract ends in April anyway - I do very much appreciate the offer though!