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Broadband USO - how about satellite ?
13 Jan 2009 | 11.44 Europe/London
BeyonDSL has tweaked its 2-way satellite offerring using Astra2Connect - bringing the price of a basic 256/64k service down to £19.99 per month equivalent if paid annually, otherwise £24.99 per month.
As usual with satellite the high cost of bandwidth leads to restrictions, the above service includes 800 MB of "priority bandwidth" per month and if usage exceeds 2 GB the downlink is restricted to 64 kbits/s.
Recent talk of a 2M broadband USO could in theory be met by BeyonDSL's 2M / 128k service with 2 GB of priority service and a 64k speed limit once 5 GB/month is exceeded. £79.99 per month if paid annually, £5 more for monthly payment. 12 month contract. 1M download speed is £40/month cheaper.
Setup costs are not small at £350 for self install or an extra £100 for an installer to visit. Additional options to provide TV from Freesat are also available.
Obviously the monthly data transfer is a bit limited, and the service is fairly asymmetric with a modest upload speed, but this is a practical option for an ADSL Notspot.
As usual with satellite the high cost of bandwidth leads to restrictions, the above service includes 800 MB of "priority bandwidth" per month and if usage exceeds 2 GB the downlink is restricted to 64 kbits/s.
Recent talk of a 2M broadband USO could in theory be met by BeyonDSL's 2M / 128k service with 2 GB of priority service and a 64k speed limit once 5 GB/month is exceeded. £79.99 per month if paid annually, £5 more for monthly payment. 12 month contract. 1M download speed is £40/month cheaper.
Setup costs are not small at £350 for self install or an extra £100 for an installer to visit. Additional options to provide TV from Freesat are also available.
Obviously the monthly data transfer is a bit limited, and the service is fairly asymmetric with a modest upload speed, but this is a practical option for an ADSL Notspot.