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Originally Posted by andygrif
Mick, I know this has probably been done to death, but if you have 50% more bandwidth, are you seriously going to download 50% more (i.e more than 1gb a day)?
I think the net result (no pun intended) is that you'll maybe browse more websites (becuase they will load faster, but you will probably spend the same amount of time browsing) but you're unlikely to download more software, videos, music etc - I may be wrong, but this seems logical to me.
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Exactly. During the trials I monitored my usage and found although it makes it slightly nicer for downloads in that they come down quicker sometimes (
if you can get a download that will run at full speed), and sometimes graphics intensive web sites seem to load a little quicker, when I looked at the graphs my average usage for 99% of the time was little more than a couple of hundred kbps on downstream. The vast majority of the 1Mbps capacity was being unused, so the extra 50% (for "free"... my arse!), makes naff all difference to me.
I'd rather not be paying £3 extra for the "free"
500kbps extra and they keep 1Mbps at £35.
What justification does NTL have for hiking the 1Mbps fee anyway, when Telewest have it lower and many ADSL ISPs are competing to reduce or maintain prices not increasing them?