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Originally Posted by Pem
What about them ? Just think about how much over 1GB a day is.
It is a huge amount of data - in fact, it is about equal to the whole of Cable Forums bandwidth usage (for all users).
Normal users do not use this much bandwidth - blimey - many businesses don't use this much.
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1 gig might have been ok for a limit 2 years ago, but is sadly inadequate if you do any kind of online gaming or video/mp3 browsing these days, if you belong to Fileplanet or Gamespot or Napster or OD2 etc etc, then you can very easily (and legally) cross 1 gig in a matter of hours, the latest game demo's are enormous compared to a couple of years ago, and there are new game demos almost every day - Thief 3 is over 400 meg for example, Fileplanet is offering Eve-Online & StarWars Galaxies for download - both are over 1 gig in size and so on... the videos alone from E3 are often 650 meg in size.
NTL's cap is just not feasable, it should be at least 3-5 gig, just to keep it useable, they need to re-evaluate the status of things around them, other sites/ISP's have moved with the times, NTL's 1 gig cap is outdated.
Ian