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In my case it was because many people had difficulty in spelling my old username. It can also confuse spambots that trawl forums looking for email addresses and also pick up usernames to which they add the @abigdomain.com or .co.uk as many forum users have a username that is the same as the first part of their email addy.

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Hmm if this is the case I will be cancelling straight away, but as always its all speculation and hopefully they will be as lax enforcing this as they are with the 1gig cap now.

Ive been with NTL for 2 Years now and theyve been excellent, but if this happens I will be offski!

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You're not gonna believe this but:
About 2 hours afte posting that my BB connection dropped - middle light flashing.
A call to faults detemined that the box was a fault, so I asked if I could get a Samsung in view of the upcoming speed changes - no problem, engineer booked for this afternoon.
This morning the connection started working again! I dutifully called faults to cancel the engineer but they said that they wanted to do a box swap and so I might as well let him come. I didn't argue.

I certainly have had no problems with the Pace 1000 (apart from this last episode, which I'm not convinced was the box anyway), I just hope the Samsung will be as reliable.

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This has not been mentioned on any official channel as yet.

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"PlusNet is the first ISP to announce how BT's speed trials will affect its business model. Previously, the price of its Premier product ranged from £21.99 a month for a 512Kbps connection to £39.99 per month for a 2Mbps line. But from April, PlusNet will shift to usage-based charging, where £21.99 will buy 30GB of peak-time data per month plus another 230GB per month during the night. Customers can pay more to get a larger monthly download limit."

An ISP with sense, you will find most users are not against caps as a whole they just against biased caps, plusnet realised night time capacity isnt an issue and allow users to take advantage. Why cant NTL?

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Because if they did that, all the stupid pirate CD burners would stay up all night doing it instead.

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Bless, another stupid person stating that all people who download lots are cd pirates... :-|

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Where does the post say that? It says that all those who ARE CD pirates would stop up all night to do it. (and no need to be offensive).

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Then please educate us...

What the heck do you all download then?

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Everquest 2 beta 4 gig (often updated weekly)

World of warcraft beta 2.5 gig using bittorrent officially. (updated monthly usually requiring a total client download)

Plus those who purchase games through steam or fileplanet.com

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Then I guess you are stuffed then, unless you can beta test via CD/DVD like everyone else...

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hang on this is the speed thread , not the cap thread :disturbd: ;)

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Yes can some members please take note that this is the new speeds thread and not the capping thread. Thanks. :)

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they were not using disks, they were online games and the companies decided to distribute them how they did, sending weekly updates all around the world by post is hardly an option. It's the ISP job to provide bandwidth and it is perfectly within their means. The fact that international companies like sony are distributing public beta's online is proof that the average ISP can handle it.

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Then one ask the question is NTL the average ISP???

or

Are we avearge users?