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Originally Posted by ProfPete
When will people like you understand that you are paying for a CONTENDED service, with data rates of UP TO 1mbps? You are NOT entitled to download that amount of data on a contended service at all, and frankly you are being selfish.
If you want to download at 1mbps all the time, you should be paying £700 per month, not £35, because THAT IS WHAT IT COSTS. You are using far more than your fair share (incidentally, 1gig/day is TWICE your fair share).
There is nothing wrong with the network. Contention is applied on the local loop because that is the physical design of the system. The backhaul network is flying, and does not suffer from contention at all.
Unfortunately, people like you who are stealing from ntl are preventing them from investing in the network, and forward moving. They have no interest in providing 2mbps, because people like you will just download 600gb/month, costing them a further £700 or more per customer, for a measly £20 or so extra.
Until you accept that you have a contended service, those of us who want higher bandwidth services despearately just aren't going to see them. Please wake up to reality. |
That is a vailed point, that it is costing NTL a lot of money, but if they cannot handle then why offer the service?
On the other hand if this is causing people problems, then they should turn down users who wish to use the service for mainly for downloading. But as NTL is a business its all about money and they won't do that.
Also them who do want faster connections, but are *having to wait* because of users who download a lot, i think is utter nonsence. If someone wanted a 2mg connection then they would have it for the speed of downloading, or other things that require fast speeds/a high amount of bandwidth.
Also in this day and age, an issue like this can only get bigger. As files sizes increase .