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Originally Posted by Womble
Yeah sorry I stand corrected, didn't read from start of the tread...doh  |
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Originally Posted by Womble
But I still thing that 1gig a day is more than plenty for the average home user. It would be interesting to see, if everyone complaining about the cap stated what there downloads consisted of, and are they from legal sources. As for gaming etc, you could play for 24hrs and get nowhere near 1gig transfer, yes some of the mods are large but you only download them every now and then
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I'll answer this.
1gig a day may be ok for the average home user but I amn't an average home user. Computers (and the Internet) are a large part of my life and I use it for work as well as personal gain. How many average home users actually pay for the 1meg connection? Surely its designed for above average users?
As for what I download, I subscribe to many pay music and video sites and enjoy downloading new songs/films to try. These sites are legal and all above board. There are many things I will download, try and delete so am not storing all this data that is being downloaded.
I could probably download about 150 music tracks for 1gig. If I download a film, most are about 800/900 meg so im pretty much at the gig cap already.
Add this to online radio and the other downloads I get (eg Unreal Tourney demo yesterday @ over 200meg then its esay to see that going over 1gig a day i easy.
I keep repeating I dont excessively go over and download nearly ALL my stuff over night so I dont impact other users but I dont think NTL care.
And, if they are currently only targeting users in my area, what gives them the right? Either target us all and not decide to pick on South Manchester because you cant be bothered investing in the network here. I dont think I've ever seen on the status page of upgardes around here.
Anyway, I would love NTL to speak with us instead of throwing down these demands that we stop accessing the services we pay for.
