[Klaus]

Totally agree Keyser. NTL should have put a lot more thought into this. 100Gb per month would be much more suitable. However, there are still people like me who want download more. So design a package for heavy users, not just force us to leave.

Some interesting and valid quotes regarding contention. Some of which I had not heard before. I am a heavy user and I know it. I also understand the model adopted by all the home user ISP's is not sustainable cost wise. Certainly not when users like myself exist.

After the caps were first announced last year, I expected other ISP's to follow suit. I was planning to move to a business ADSL line, as I understand I use my connection more than an average home user. However, I was doing this off my own back. NTL nor any other ISP afaik, talk about your usage of the line. If there really is an issue in maxing it out all month, you should be told this when you buy the product.

In the end NTL didn't enforce their caps, so I stayed where I was. Now they are enforcing them, I will leave. To my suprise very few other ISP's have introduced caps, perhaps the problem isn't as big as NTL make out? I still think the flat monthly fee model isn't sustainable. So ISP's will have to do something in the future.

For now I will go to another home user ADSL connection, having confirmed they have no plans of caps. However, I'm willing to pay business prices, but only when I'm forced to by the ISP's.

For those who are asking what us massive downloaders get, I'll tell you. I pay an extra subscription to two Usenet service providers. They have great bandwidth and can easily max out my connection. Once you are on a good Usenet server, you can easily download 10Gb a day. A complete guess, but I would say at least 100x that amount is added on an almost daily basis. And what you ask? Well DVD's and console games mainly. If it's there to get, why not get it?

Klaus