Can't speak for Zen - but the rise in allowance from 25GB to 50GB on Active was mainly down to the cost savings of moving from IPStream to WBC. So unless there are other wholesale reductions in price probably not much margin for cutting price or adding more allowance.

Unless you take the gamble of increasing allowance and most customers not using it.

As you can see from my sig I've used quite a few ISPs and Zen blow them all away in terms of technical quality of the service and the support behind it.

I'd not use anyone else for my Internet connection now and I don't recommend anyone else either.

I would like to see them take on an LLU provider so that it gives customers an option in areas where BT fall short.

Edited by techguy (Wed 15-Feb-12 14:17:52)

I realise this doesn't help, but I've never had any issue with Netflix (or anything else) on Sky's Broadband service. I'm still amazed by how good it is considering it costs next to nothing.

HD Streams need a solid 4-5 mbps I *think* on Netflix.

As Sky have now removed the requirement to have Sky TV I don't think it'll stay that way for long TBH.

The P2P crowd swarm to unlimited ISPs that are cheap, the networks get congested and the companies turn to traffic management as if they keep adding capacity they will go out of business and the P2P users then complain that they can't download torrents at line speed because they have little understanding of how networks operate.

BT also meter the traffic flowing over an ADSL circuit in the downstream direction (from the ISP to the end user) and charge the ISP for this, Sky and the like own the equipment in the exchange so don't chage the user for it although they do meter it to detect contraventions of a network abuse policy, I think they may well start charing in the not too distant future.

Edited by techguy (Sun 26-Feb-12 15:48:01)

In reply to a post by techguy:

As Sky have now removed the requirement to have Sky TV I don't think it'll stay that way for long TBH.

The P2P crowd swarm to unlimited ISPs that are cheap, the networks get congested and the companies turn to traffic management as if they keep adding capacity they will go out of business and the P2P users then complain that they can't download torrents at line speed because they have little understanding of how networks operate.

People have said that of BE since they launched so that's clearly nonsense. The BE service is still pretty good, still does not have traffic shaping, bandwidth limits or anything else and is still competitively priced.

Sky have removed the requirement to use Sky BB for Anytime+ services, which will also keep sky broadband network usage down since other providers will be shifting those packets. Either way I doubt very much we'll be seeing a problem at Sky anytime soon - they have much bigger revenue streams than "ISP only" setups.

You have been able to have Sky Broadband without Sky TV for a long time, so I'm not sure where you got that idea - they've just started promoting it more recently - ultimately they want BB into TV customers and a large percentage will (or have).

BT also meter the traffic flowing over an ADSL circuit in the downstream direction (from the ISP to the end user) and charge the ISP for this, Sky and the like own the equipment in the exchange so don't chage the user for it although they do meter it to detect contraventions of a network abuse policy, I think they may well start charing in the not too distant future.