[th'engineer]

Originally Posted by IanUK

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need to re-evaluate the status of things around them, other sites/ISP's have moved with the times, NTL's 1 gig cap is outdated.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

quite agree time for a change of guidelines