I'm guessing that we'll be dry for half the month each month (or am I wrong)

A film can easily be 2GB, it could be much more depending on the quality. A TV episode half a GB. Don't bother with capped.

20 meg fibre I get virtually that on ADSL is it so bad in your area you can't just have a decent ADSL unlimited package?

You'll blow through 40Gb easy on video streaming alone. Unlimited is worth it

It will only be as fast as your router is capable of handling. Otherwise, you get what you pay for.

Every ISP here give you a router that is capable of dealing with the speeds they provide.

Go with talk talk, cheap truly unlimited fiber broadband for twenty seven pounds a month

No no no. Talk talk are s**t!! I had to threaten them with court action just to get my connection on. Engineer fitted everything and it took a day and half to get the internet on, despite it being a managed install.
after my phone calls about hidden charges they changed the website and the tv advert so its all displayed. Not to mention I have a 12month discount because of their balls up, and free channels on youview for 6 months.
there customer service team is rude and dont give a toss. Speaking to them is like talking to a r*tarded ape on acid.

I have had Sky for a while and they are great. Their customer experience is great in my opinion as well. When I thought my connection could be faster after the first automatic tests I rang them up and said it should be faster and they just set the speed to maximum and re ran tests, no problem.

talktalk have improved but they still rank poorly when compared to other providers. Virgin media has had the best report and currently offers the fastest fibre in the uk and plusnet are also highly recommended, and Sky.

BT, EE, orange and talktalk are best avoided. (orange still operate their broadband separately to EE) regardless of fibre or standard adsl broadband. That said you have to take into account that everyone has different experiances with their ISP, meaning you will always here someone complain about every provider, but its the overall figures that really matter.

I would choose virgin media where fibre optic is concerned, if I could but unfortunately they do not cover my area. Iam currently with sky but I just have a standard broadband connection which works fine for me because Iam not a heavy downloader. My web activities just consist of browsing and occasional video streaming so I have no great need for fibre.

Virgin Media removed their traffic shaping policy for download speed not long ago, now there is no limits and your download speed is never slowed down. Upload will still slow down by up to 60pc if you go over a certain amount. I've been with VM for years now. Currently have this and a phone line for less than 30 quid per month..

thats good value. I know sky also make the same claim for their adsl with regards to not slowing you down, maybe its the same for their fibre too.

Internet speed doesnt make much difference if you are only using it to surf the net. 500mbps or 10mbps give you the same speed whatever your conputer is capable of. Its more about giving smooth connection for your net traffic. My brother got a 1GBps connection and loading Yahoo still takes about 5 seconds. Just that his connection can run hundreds of seedboxes at any one time.

Seemed obvious to me in his OP he was wanting to do more than surf the net I have about 18meg ADSL because that is the fastest speed I can possibly get in my area and I would gladly take more when they finally get round to activating the fibre they claim to have been installing past few months. I would even consider paying for FTTP in the near future. But I digress.

A 40gb cap would be crippling if you start to seriously pull down video