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Originally Posted by SMHarman
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.
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. |
Just from a personal point of view - I have the 1M - and I use it for gaming, Email and the occasional upload of files to my own website. I occasionaly download linux distros (when I need to upgrade/test a new version) and often listen to the radio through it when I am working. I also use it for work when I get the oppertunity to work from home, with a vpn connection.
I never have an issue with the cap, but then I never download a full linux distro three or four days on the trot.
I am happy with 1M, but was a bit miffed (well, ok, a LOT miffed
) when NTL decided to put the price up, but decided that I could afford to keep the service at its current level, as the benefit of that speed, and the upload speed when working at home of uploading web pages, was worth more to me than the cost in terms of my time by downgrading.
Now I get told I am to be "automatically uplifted" to 1.5M for no extra cost, so I feel vindicated.
Will I make the best use of the 1.5M - probably not, will I be chuffed when a large and complex page downloads in seconds, or I download a file from the office quicker than my boss does on his 512K ADSL ? damn right, after all, that's what I'm paying for.
Had they said : we are re-aligning the broadband tiers - here are your new options :
300K - 17.99 pcm
750K - 24.99 pcm
1500K - 37.99 pcm
I feel it would have looked better to most, and people would not be having quite such an issue with it. However - this is NTL, and they never do things the easy way.
For my money (of which NTL will be getting a bit more now) it is still a good deal - but had they not uplifted the 1M by 50% I would have been considering going down to the 750K when it was available.