Featured Broadband Provider

Each month UK Broadband World has a closer look at a Broadband provider. This month, we take a look at Eclipse Internet.

Eclipse Internet Broadband

Eclipse Internet has been going since 1995 when dial-up was king! Today they provide a very competitive range of broadband connections competing head on with the big boys of broadband. They also do a great job with customer support recently reflected in a survey by 20,000 PC Pro readers giving Eclipse Internet a 'Highly Commended' status in December last year.

They provide a huge range of Broadband packages for both Home and Business. Business broadband packages all offer an 8Mb connection with an excellent range of options on top of that. The Home Broadband packages give you a choice of 2Gb - 40Gb monthly downloads and the Eclipse Evolution packages give you a range of unlimited download packages.

For now we'll take a closer look at the Eclipse Evolution Broadband Packages as featured on our site.

Eclipse Evolution Broadband Packages

The Evolution range of packages offer excellent value for money starting at £9.99. All Evolution packages offer Unlimited downloads and an 8mb connection. The following describes what you get as standard in each Eclipse Evolution package:

• Fixed monthly payments, surf as much as you want
• Unlimited downloads - eat as much music and video as you want!
• Superfast 8Mbps with all Evolution packages
• UK-based support teams to help you out
• set-up and hardware
• Switch to Eclipse and get a wireless router and the first month Free

Eclipse offer an innovative difference between each package - a scaling fair usage policy. All packages allow Unlimited downloads during off-peak hours but introduce a monthly limit during peak hours 6pm-midnight. Option 1 has a monthly peak download limit of 20Gb increasing to 50Gb for Option 4.

An average user is unlikely to download anywhere near that amount of data, but even if you want to you have the option of doing so during off peak hours. We think this policy makes a lot of sense and allows Eclipse Internet to offer an excellent range of value broadband packages. Something you just won't find with other providers!

	Broadband Option 1 is now £9.99 for the first 3 months, thereafter it's £14.99 per month.
Speed	Up to 8Mb
Monthly Usage	Unlimited monthly usage
Security	All Eclipse broadband packages come with a VIRUSshield that includes: virus scanning for your email Protection from over 80,000 viruses Automatically updated every 4 hours Protects inbound and outbound emails SPAMshield includes: Easy to use spam control Significantly reduce spam or ‘junk’ emails Adjustable 'discard' threshold for spam
Equipment	Free USB Modem
Website Space	25Mb of webspace to build your own website
Email Accounts	10 separate email addresses
Game Console Support	Need to purchase an additional Ethernet Modem to connect for online gaming with an Xbox or Playstation.
Apple Mac Compatible	n/a
Help & Support	UK-based support teams on a local rate 0845 number online customer support.
Fair Usage Policy	Option 1 has a Fair Usage Policy: 20 Gb during Peak hours. Unlimited during Off-peak hours.

	Broadband Option 2 is now £12.99 for the first 3 months, thereafter it's £18.99 per month.
Speed	Up to 8Mb
Monthly Usage	Unlimited monthly usage
Security	All Eclipse broadband packages come with a VIRUSshield that includes: virus scanning for your email Protection from over 80,000 viruses Automatically updated every 4 hours Protects inbound and outbound emails SPAMshield includes: Easy to use spam control Significantly reduce spam or ‘junk’ emails Adjustable 'discard' threshold for spam
Equipment	Free USB Modem
Website Space	25Mb of webspace to build your own website
Email Accounts	10 separate email addresses
Game Console Support	Need to purchase an additional Ethernet Modem to connect for online gaming with an Xbox or Playstation.
Apple Mac Compatible	n/a
Help & Support	UK-based support teams on a local rate 0845 number online customer support.
Fair Usage Policy	Option 2 has a Fair Usage Policy: 30 Gb during Peak hours. Unlimited during Off-peak hours.

	Broadband Option 3 is now £17.99 for the first 3 months, thereafter it's £24.99 per month.
Speed	Up to 8Mb
Monthly Usage	Unlimited monthly usage
Security	All Eclipse broadband packages come with a VIRUSshield that includes: virus scanning for your email Protection from over 80,000 viruses Automatically updated every 4 hours Protects inbound and outbound emails SPAMshield includes: Easy to use spam control Significantly reduce spam or ‘junk’ emails Adjustable 'discard' threshold for spam
Equipment	Free USB Modem
Website Space	40Mb of webspace to build your own website
Email Accounts	10 separate email addresses
Game Console Support	Need to purchase an additional Ethernet Modem to connect for online gaming with an Xbox or Playstation.
Apple Mac Compatible	n/a
Help & Support	UK-based support teams on a local rate 0845 number online customer support.
Fair Usage Policy	Option 3 has a Fair Usage Policy: 40 Gb during Peak hours. Unlimited during Off-peak hours.

	Broadband Option 4 is now £21.99 for the first 3 months, thereafter it's £29.99 per month.
Speed	Up to 8Mb
Monthly Usage	Unlimited monthly usage
Security	All Eclipse broadband packages come with a VIRUSshield that includes: virus scanning for your email Protection from over 80,000 viruses Automatically updated every 4 hours Protects inbound and outbound emails SPAMshield includes: Easy to use spam control Significantly reduce spam or ‘junk’ emails Adjustable 'discard' threshold for spam
Equipment	Free USB Modem
Website Space	50Mb of webspace to build your own website
Email Accounts	20 separate email addresses
Game Console Support	Need to purchase an additional Ethernet Modem to connect for online gaming with an Xbox or Playstation.
Apple Mac Compatible	n/a
Help & Support	UK-based support teams on a local rate 0845 number online customer support.
Fair Usage Policy	Option 4 has a Fair Usage Policy: 50 Gb during Peak hours. Unlimited during Off-peak hours.