[slowcoach]

Judging from some of the messages here you would think NTL was planning to reduce speeds rather than increase them, if I was NTL reading this thread I would be thinking †œwhat an ungrateful lot of *** we have as customersâ₠¬Â�, it would make me think twice before I offered any further speed increases.



Given the choice I would have to choose reasonable capping as opposed to crap service due to congestion. If I had a few people on my loop hogging the bandwidth all the time I would be the first to complain, we all have to learn to respect other people and act accordingly otherwise the result will be anarchy which will benefit no-one.

When it was PAYG for everyone we were our own bandwidth police, only being able to afford going online evenings and weekends for relatively short periods of time. With a fixed monthly fee there has to be some policy to deter everyone from hogging the bandwidth, anyone who canââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t appreciate that is living in cloud cuckoo land.

In an ideal world we would each have a 1:1 contention ratio and each driver would have the road all to themselves but until then we have to learn to live within current resources.



When my speed doubles I am not going to be downloading twice as much data as I do now, I am not going to change my on-line pattern much at all, in just the same way that I didnâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t start downloading everything in site when I moved from 512KB ADSL last month just because I could now do it 3 times faster.



For the first time in my life I will have the fastest connection available in the UK (ignoring Bulldog in Central London) and for that I have to applaud NTL, and at a price I could only have dreamed of in the past.



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