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Originally Posted by Stop It
My god, reading this thread does open your eyes to some hugely dodgy bandwidth usage, and plain ignorance to the fact that if everyone overused ANY ISP's network, they would be brought to a halt.
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I agree and disagree - not everyone goes on at 6pm till 8pm and downloads lots of stuff - what happens if say one person did this through the night - the few that are on wont be effected at all (unless like everyone stays up at night).
Although the above is fine on the network - as in it does not effect a lot of customers - you are still breaking the rules. What happens if everybody is on at peak times? this will have a effect as well.
The idea i gather from here is this - if a person who pays there bill expects to get full speed no matter what - is too slow (lets say half speed) then they ring up and complain but that person has the right cos he is not a big downloader. Surely the same argument of Contented service can apply to that line as well?? You get 1mbit etc but if the service is busy - then sorry - but your paying for this type of service and thus you get whatever speed your getting...
Oh and reference the CAP Limit - go browse on ADSL Services out there - thet have various packages out there - lower end of the scale is cheaper and has limits but the more you pay - the more you get - so picking say a 1mbit line will get you not only CAP free service but also Static IP, PHP web space etc.
People are annoyed as the CAP is across the board - soon people will be paying £37.99 for 1mbit which at some point will go upto 1.5mbit - yet the cap is still the same as the person who pays the lowest amount.
Ive said it before in another post - i am free to leave the service - the cap does not bother me in the slightest becuase i tried to leave NTL but they offered me Half price for 3 months. Once that 3 months is up - then i will be on the phone again trying to cancel - i personally would rather pay £32 a month for 1mbit/256 with email that works, no cap whatsoever, PHP/MySQL webspace as standard with Static IP. NTL Have NEVER sent me a letter and I use my connection as i feel the need but then other hand i dont run P2P softare and dont Upload a great deal - it has always been the upload that was the problem (lack of) but NTL somehow got it wrong again and focused on the Downloads... Oh well