Sorry to be a killjoy but
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Five or 6Mbps is within our range," said Raube. "When there's desire for faster speeds we'll offer it."
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Where is the news here? 5 / 6Mbps is within range of ADSL and cable right now. Being able to do it and wanting to are very different things. Also there's the small matter that Telewest's uBRs wouldn't appreciate the abuse - in Canada where 3 - 5Mbps is regular right up to 10Mbps for advanced users there are fair use policies and download of 80GB/month is considered a lot of data - the 250+GB/month that some members here pull on
1Mbps would not be tolerated. The guidelines are for one ISP 15GB/month on 5Mbit and 30GB/month on 10Mbit, that's total traffic up
and downstream.
Can you imagine someone complaining that they've just been cut off for downloading 1000GB in a month on their 5Mbit? It would probably happen with things as they are at the moment - with a pay as you go or harder capping system this becomes more feasible, but while people will not tolerate absolute limits it's not really an option. For myself the idea of sharing a uBR with someone on 5Mbit/640kbit for example who is downloading constantly at 4Mbps and upping at 512k doesn't really appeal.
Same old dispute same old arguments, when the demand is there (remember uptake of 1,1.5 + 3Mbps services is a fraction of that of the lower tiers - Telewest have less than 5,000 customers (IIRC) of a base of half a million on 3Mbit) and either fair use or contention are more acceptable then mebbe we can have this chat again.