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Originally Posted by Earwig
This in my mind would be a pretty bad idea 
I am hoping it does not include the upload aswell. 
Guess we will just have to wait and see. 
Tnx for the answers m8  |
ADSL ISPs such as PlusNet cap both down and upstream. The two are combined into a single usage figure.
However PlusNet do a PAYG scheme if you go over the cap, so it's not the end of the world, plus they do uncapped. I have to say though that even with a heavy amount of downloading and running a web server (a fair bit of upstream traffic), I've barely got past 18Gb in a month with PlusNet, so 40Gb with NTL would be plenty.
Those who are using monitoring tools on the PC and have a LAN may find what those tools are telling you could be far higher than your usage as far as the ISP is concerned. The software tools often don't account for your own network overheads and traffic to other PCs on your network. Using NetStat Live, it was telling me I was using something like 50gig, and yet PlusNet say I'm only using 18Gb.
The better tools are things like mrtg/prtg with it set to query the modem so you only see the traffic through the modem.