I've just had a look at the cost of a leased line, and wow, it is suprising!!
I don't think I use 1G a day, although I do have XBL, and don't take into account that, and am happy with my service, although I think I would get a little annoyed if it was slow.
I think the principle of the cap is a good idea, although I agree that you shouldn't get the same for 150 and 1024.
I think the only way it could ever perhaps become fair if some 'pay as you go' type thing came in - Now I know this would irk people, myself included, but why should my connection be compromised because of other people? You're right, I could download or upload more, "to get my moneys worth", but if I did that the same as the heavy users, then their connection would be affected, and the'd probably get more upset about it than me!
In fact that might be the way to go - everyone ul/dl 100% when you're not 'using the connection' ie browsing or wanting to download something, just to annoy the heavy users. Now I don't actually think that, but I'm just being Devil's Advocate. I have no problem with anyone downloading anything
providing it doesn't affect me. If it does, then of course I'm gonna get annoyed - I use it 'fairly'.
Anyway I think that's my rant over - the first I've made on this issue, but once again, just bear in mind that if the heavy downloaders all switch to adsl, then that's gonna get a lot worse on adsl and better on NTL! oh look - you'll all be moving back
oh and the costs of those leased lines (with pipex, monthly...)
64K 58.25
128K 112.50
256K 216.67
512K 416.67
768K 625.00
1024K 820.83
1526K 1208.33
2048K 1625.00
So surely pipex aren't really gonna offer 'unlimited 512K' for £30 a month or whatever, if the service can't cope with it, which it wouldn't if everyone used it all the while.
And incidently how many of the 1M or 'heavy users' customers would switch over to one of these services?