[Chrysalis]

I see justanothernoob's point about why isp's wont provide higher speed products, but the answer isnt a 8mbit product with 5gig traffic limit, that is just ridiculous. The answer is as what somone else suggested, manipulation of when people download.

Example 1.

2mbit product, capped to 2mbit download between 1am and 8am weekdays, capped to 500kbit between 8am and 1am weekdays, capped to 2mbit between 1am and 6pm weekends capped to 512kbit between 6pm and 1am at weekends, you could also take this further by manipulating the upload speed as well. This would make people do their downloading in the 2mbit time periods more, the stubborn ones who still do large downloads during 512k periods will suffer from reduced speeds. This should be possible as I believe ntl use QoS.

Example 2.

Keep cap how it is same speed all day, but when user reaches their traffic limit, they get capped to 64kbit isdn speed for the remiander of the month, this means no extra charges and they can still use the net, but are essentially crippled freeing up the bandwidth.

In both examples there should be a super user package available which is charged accordingly to allow the users the options of more felexibility, the extra income from this would be used to provide the infrastructure capable of doing this.

If caps are used such as Example 2 they should be reasonable 5gig on 8mbit is just stupid, I would say something like 20gig - 150kbit, 50gig - 600kbit, 100gig - 1mbit, 150gig - 2mbit and so on.