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the same reason why people buy a car capable for doing 180mph when the limit is 70mph surely?!?!

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Yep, same ere. Let me know when they want it and i'll pay it!

Great news!

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I'm impressed - I think it's a nice kick up ADSL's backside - it should drive down the wholesale costs of ADSL and/or increase the bandwidth BT offers via ADSL.

I suspect it wont be long before bandwidth is irrelevant as download rates increase to the max needed by the average punter - until we start getting applications which need all this bandwidth such as downloadable film rentals.

the £25 charge is just a silly distraction from the main headline which is that broadband has just taken another major step forward.

as for the 30gb/40gb limits - isnt that similar to the current 1gb guideline?
probably enough for most people for the current internet usage.

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Brilliant news this. Utterly fantastic. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

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:rolleyes:
No they aren't they just have a different opinion to you, thats the beauty of living in this country people are allowed to disagree!!

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Doesn't it mean that as a 750k user I have to pay £25 unless I want to be restricted to 5gb a month ? I'm not really a power user and don't mind having a slowish speed. I just don't want to be constantly looking at my download limit and if its 5gb a month I'm gonna be doing that.

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Maybe I'm missing something - but where does the 5Gb cap come from ? :confused:

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Did I miss something - where are these limits officially stated ?

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Yep, as far as the internal announcement is concerned, that's the limits being quoted :shrug:

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I'm just reading it off the news page here

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Methinks that the £25 charge has more to do with introducing the cap.

Give everyone a free speed upgrade but introduce a cap and peeps will moan like hell.

Let them pay to opt in to a deal that includes a cap and they won't - (as much).

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fair enough...

Are these in line with the current "caps" ?

Certainly 30-40Gb per month does not seem to be particularly low.

without getting into the whole "cap/no cap" discussion, I play CS:Source, and work over VPN quite a lot from home, and the speed difference from 1-1.5M was noticeable, so from 1.5-3M would be even more so.

I don't spend a large amount of time downloading (probably a couple of Linux ISOs a fortnight) and have never hit the cap - to me this is a no brainer...

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I wonder if this speed increase will also apply to AOL users without a cap ?

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They are in line with the current guidelines which are 1gb a day, except for people who 1mb (which is why I have the vague notion if I stay on a tariff below 1mb I'll be subject to the same usage restriction) which is 5gb a month. Thats pretty low when you think about if you are downloading hl2 source and the games.

I think what atlis said may be on the money though. If people are actually paying and changing their broadband plans with a cap set in place, its alot more enforceable than when NTL just decided unilaterally to impose 'guidelines'

I hope these caps are guidelines but they do seem rather prominent.

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Not from any announcement ntl make. That would have to come from AOL, no-one else.