but I dont work for myself

in which case you were in breach of the O2 t&cs unless it was a business account

You must not use the Services for:

commercial purposes, unless:
you are working from home as a sole trader in business on your own account; or,
you are a Business Customer and you use the Services only in the ordinary course of your business;

In reply to a post by yarwell:

but I dont work for myself

in which case you were in breach of the O2 t&cs unless it was a business account

You must not use the Services for:

commercial purposes, unless:
you are working from home as a sole trader in business on your own account; or,
you are a Business Customer and you use the Services only in the ordinary course of your business;

I suppose technically you are right, however I'm sure that pretty much everyone would technically be in breach of T&C's for BB (or almost anything else) if they read the small print.

I would say it's a grey area, it's not for commercial purposes, I'm not running a business from it. Yes, being able to work from home allows me to get paid, but it's not like I have a business bank account, etc.

Hmmm, strictly speaking, using ebay to sell something would breach T&C's worse than me working from home I suppose.

Bt's traffic management system starts to kick in around 3pm any p2p downloads you are doing at that point will die to around 20-30kbs the usage is monitored 24/7

the good thing and i know this as just had one is they do email you to warn you that you are reaching the 100 gig area i got mine saying i had used 80 this month so have had to step off the peddle for the remainder of the month. remeber tho that if you do take residential broadband you have absolutley no SLA whatsoever and as you work from home this could be very very important also you are not entilted to claim any compensation for loss of service/work/business etc as a residential custoemr purley entitled to a rental rebate i.e no service for a wekk so heres a weeks bb rentla charges back. Not read the business T&C recently but generally as a business user you do qualify for some kind of SLA

Top quality - IDNet Business. If you also looks at the Home/SOHO stuff make sure you are on the ADSL Max page, not the ADSL2+. No throttling or traffic management.

vivaciti Family and Office - resold Entanet - Office 90 looks suitable? Traffic management and geographic risk - some areas good, others busy.

The above with 832kbps upload if you pick the right package. All monthly contracts so no real danger.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 03-May-10 18:24:51)