Proof that Stuff magazine really is for people with more money than sense

[lovingboth]

How much for StuffBroadband?!? It gets worse when you see the setup and hardware costs on a subsequent page.

I couldn't find the Terms&Conditions - when someone's being ripped off to this extent, you just know there are usage limits too - so looked at the home page of the company that mugs actually deal with and gives Stuff's publishers a cut.

Gosh, they were just Tiscali resellers who, for some strange reason, have just had to give up and now all the customers will now deal with Tiscali direct.

Tiscali will sell you a 1M connection for £24.99 a month (with a 30G a month trigger for possibly being thrown off), less than half of the price of the exclusive Stuff package.

(They'll also sell you it for £15.99 with a 2G cap, but you'd have to be silly to go for that...)

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Stuff's like Which? in that respect - its opinions on other people's stuff are often worth having, but no savvy consumer would actually buy anything from them apart from the mag.

They'll also sell you it for £15.99 with a 2G cap, but you'd have to be silly to go for that.

I'd say not completely bonkers in some circumstances - my home usage has never gone over 1G a month (highest yet was 700Mb in a month I was at home a lot). Why pay an extra £100+/y for an allowance you don't use?

[lovingboth]

Because you could pay less with someone else, eg the people who charge you 0.2p a Mb over about 2G but cap the total bill to something reasonable, so if you do install BitTorrent have a busy month, you're not stung in the way Tiscali would do you.

Out of the Tiscali four, for low usage, I'd go for the 256k product at the same price as the 1M/2G cap one. Yep, slower, but anyone attracted by the silly one is not going to be downloading many large files.

My "always on" experience started with a 112k link - the main difference between that and the 2M one I have now is that p2p downloads are faster. Instead of waiting overnight for a film, it can now be faster than realtime, but as I still have to wait to find time to actually watch it...

[uran.livejournal.com]

Australia pays too much for reasonable internet connections. Reading your post, I want to cry. Damned isolated chunk of dirt!

[lovingboth]

I'd advise you not to look at prices in South Korea! It's better here than it was, but I still feel somewhat ripped off.