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Originally Posted by Ignition
Give these guys 3Mbit, which I'd remind you is about 1/10th of an entire EuroDOCSIS downstream normally good for hundreds of users, they'll be pulling over 800GB.
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There's a little difference between 40gb and 800gb though. It's not a budget tier being offered, this is almost £40 a month. Give a realistic cap, people aren't paying for 3mbit to check their email and maybe download a couple of mp3s every month.
Anyone that's used genuine high speed internet will tell you that once you've gone above 1mbit you see no difference in downloading webpages. NTL is offering a gimmick pure and simple. Back to this much used car analogy, not only are we being limited in the speed we can drive, we are now being limited on how far we can drive our car each month. Fine some people only need a car to drive 5 miles into work, some people drive long distances. Offer capped services, but give people the option to download a sensible amount. Are you saying people are going to pay an extra £13 a month for the priveledge of an extra 10gb? On a high speed, high end 3gb connection, costing almost £40 a month, quite frankly 40gb takes the ****.
Fair numbers would be....
Low Tier: whatever, it doesn't matter it's for people that need little bandwidth, 5gb is fine.
Mid Tier: 50gb. This is FAIR. It is a reasonable amount.
High Tier: Remember these people pay A LOT compared to other countries (most of which need to use the bandwidth of the UK to get to USA) give them 100gb. It's why they're paying so much for net access. Most of the users in this category can get 2mbit DSL with unlimited bandwidth for £40 (location permitting)
All I'm saying is most people can accept the need for caps, but make them realistic for the money people are paying.