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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004
Youre the one who mentioned metered water, not me.
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I did?
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...&postcount=544
I can't find the post that I clicked quote on, but I can assure you that you mentioned water first.
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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004
Forget about what is technically possible etc for a moment.
If someone says to me that something is unlimited it means just that, unlimited, you can have what you want, what you can take.
NTL have problems with upstreaming, it is no use blaming a few customers who are taking what they were told they could have, what they are paying for.
It is upto NTL to either admit that they made an error when they said it was unlimited, and give customers the choice to cancel their accounts with a full refund of subs paid, or increase capacity with the money they are getting from their customers instead of the money going to dead wood at NTL and board level.
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But it does come down to what is technically possible and what a reasonable person would do.
To stick with YOUR water analagy. If everyone else on your street turned all their taps on so you were left with a trickle coming out of your taps that toook 5 mins to fill a glass you would be on the phone to the water co to fix it. If they turned around and said tough, you and your neighbours are all using all your streets water bandwidth and as we offer unlimited water then you will have to wait 5 mins for your glass to fill.
Anyway, now 750k is coming along the 600k users may find they are hitting the guidance more often. Me, i seem to get into these guidance limit debates, but don't consider my usage patterns would cause concern, even though when performing maintainance on web sites I can be piping a good few Mb up to them. As such it does not cause me to think irrationally, lose sleep or put any monitoring software on my PC.
In the same way, with summer holidays around the corner, those with 3 PCs, a router a 1.5Mb line and kids surfing, chatting, plaing on line games will probably be getting near or over the cap, but that should not worry them, it's the nature of the connection that it will be used more some days than others and it is highly unlikely that NTL will be coming after them.