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Originally Posted by Paul M
As things stand, ntl cannot really impose caps because they have no ability to mass monitor usage in such a way that you, the user, can be kept informed as well. But I doubt this situation will last.
They are spending millions on upgrading the networks for these new speeds, and other services, and my bet is that this new equipment will be able to monitor you usage much better, and keep you informed of it.
Maybe not straight away, but I think it will come - and when it does, I suspect you will see a big change in attitude - and they will start to take action against you if you exceed your limit, either by cutting you off, or reducing your speed, or maybe charging you for the extra usage.
btw - I haven't seen this mentioned, but I am led to believe that the caps for these new speeds are 'total traffic', i.e. upload and download.
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As anyone who has been on any of the NTL trails can confirm they do actually have the ability to monitor our usage and stop our connection if we exceed it, all it needs is new modem configs (which we will obviously need anyway) and some basic changes at their end.
And as you said the bandwitch monitors did include both down and up stream traffic as part of your allowence so i'm certainly guessing as you said that will be the case with this (and is probally the case with the current guidelines)