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

[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...