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OK, you may know more than me about the deal (that is not difficult as I only know what has been published) , but surely any extra money coming into NTL could be good (spent on Network upgrades etc)? I doubt that AOL access would be a major selling point for NTL DTV though, as I cannot see people going for NTL purely because they offer AOL (AOL is also available through ADSL, and most people already have a BT line), unless ADSL is not available in an area.

But, as I said, more money for NTL is good provided they spend it on expanding/upgrading the network.

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What is to say that NTL are not getting a monthly payment in addition to the one off payment they took? not beyond the realms of possiblity imo.

But not being on the inside, I could'nt say it's the case.
Just paints pictures of brown envelopes to me :D

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Errrm I daily download massive files from friends Ftp's online of games to test out and large dvd-camcorder files of 2gb :erm:

No letter....ahh well

Thats a good thing right or do i have a hit man outside my door :shocked:

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Just remember to keep the curtains closed!

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ditto.
1 GB a day isn't good.
I am not a "heavy user" but these caps are stupid.
Make it something likr 5GB a day or something if they want to stop "heavy users" and not general users.

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If you were to get such a letter, then you would be, and it would at that point be in the best interests of the company and the majority of its broadband customers that you left the service.

Sorry, but that's the reality of the situation. The cap isn't decided upon arbitarily, it's designed to reflect both the capacity of the network and the profitability of a customer using it.

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ntl will be issuing software later this year that will help cable customers measure their bandwidth. Then they will start to enforce their usage policy.

More infromation can be found here
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5GB per day???

C'mon, how good do you really think ntl's network is?

I struggled to exceed 3GB in a month, playing online games, VPN'ing to my office network, streaming radio and small downloads. If somebody needs more than 1GB per day for a residential service, I'd be very suspicious.

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5GB a day? How much do you need?

I never touch 500MB per day! :erm:

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LOL, I'm saying nowt :rolleyes:

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I can end up with the odd heavy day but Ignitioin has assured me I am not a heavy user so I am not worried yet there is times like the other day we had to download a linux distro again as some arrived corrupted so instead of 4 downloads it was 6 all around 600mb. :O

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haha i'm not saying that i use 5GB a day! it was just an example

the suposed cap... say if I go over it will my net cut? Or can i continue to use it.

I suppose if we can still use it, and then they warn only the people who keep going over then its ok

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You will not be cut (off). You will have the choice of having your speed reduced, or buying extra allowance (or if applicable, upgrade your service). :D

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Would there be any chance of NTL offering an extra Tier for the power users, that have to download 24/7. But i would still like to know what people are downloading to necessitate the need for over 1gig a day.

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Upgrade to what?

Origianly the rumours had 2 mb as 30gig a month and 3mb as 40gig a month but it's been released with the one cap fits all mentality again. If on 2mb you upgrade to 3mb and presto you are downloading more.

Infect NTL have nowhere for you to upgrade to at present, The 1 gig a day is a problem as it can be broken yet if it was listed as 30gig a month you would know after a heavy session to slow down for the rest of the month.

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erm, like I said, if applicable (i.e from the 1M to the 2M).