Ahh the gold old capping argument rears it head again and see the same people agruing with the same stuff as when it was first brought out
I disagree that a "Normal" user should just check mail, browse the net and maybe d/l a few things so not slow down the serives for others - if all they wanted to do was that- hell they could achive the same thing on dial up - why pay £34.99 a month for 1mbit if thats the case?
Ive always said that the problem is not with D/L but def more with Uploading - less of the upload then the download otherwise they would have 600/256.
If they had rolled out fibre to houses somehow (not sure if this is possible like) to start with - although costing lots then surley in the long term could have passed BT ADSL ages ago - now it seems been left behind by it for some reason.
As for "abuse" - only people to loose out in my eyes is NTl at this point in time - why? Well if your lucky enough to have both ADSL and Cable - then soon as NTL say "bad Boy" then cancel - move to adsl who have no cap - there is enough adsl providors out there to move as soon as they change there service to CAPPED - upon checking not many do Capping (as in so much data per month) and the ones that do sell it as "lite" anyhow with the option to pay couple pound more for 'Uncapped' anyhow...