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Originally Posted by ianathuth
At the start of internet usage in the home there was no reason to cap or limit usage as there were far less users than the eqipment was designed to handle. As more and more users came on line their usage started to affect the service of others to such an extent that restrictions had to start being applied. People complain quite regularly about poor service levels but seem to forget that they don't have 1:1 contention and at peak times they could expect a possible lowering of speed.
Comparing entertainment packages of 20 years ago against today is the same as comparing apples with oranges. You could not get anything like an equivalent package 20 years ago.
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There still is depending on how you read it absolutely no need to restrict the service, you yourself in a post above and NTL themselves have admitted as such. Or are you saying all the current backbones etc is actually the very same hardware that the few on dial up was using at the start.
Comparing apples and oranges is totally wrong
Today all we have extra over 20 years ago is the internet which is just another medium acting as a data carrier, for many it comes through the phone line
okay we have more channels but too boot we have at least as many times more repeats than we have extra channels so no real difference there. A phone is just that a phone.