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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
The low usage customers are catered for.
The 24/7 leechers are dealt with.
But what about the people who want 50-100 gig a month? and is 40 gig really appropriate for a 3mbit tier.
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Actually, having done the calculations, 40gig is quite restrictive for a 3-meg package. Infact, if the contention is 20:1, then this is slightly less than your fair share. I'm told, however, that they work on 25:1, so its probably a bit more. 45gig would be fair for 20:1, counting a 31-day month, so they ought to round that up to 50.
Though for the price, I'm not complaining
Prices will come down, bandwidth allowances might go up, speed might rise again in a few years time (once they work out what to do with a million ambit modems that are incapable of more than 3meg!!
), and some competition might happen......................... when BT work out how to make their network capable of backhauling any more data than it does now...
I do, however, support a bit of flexibility, in the form of capacity-based charging. My hosting provider charge me 0.5p per megabyte over 10gig/month. That works out at 50p/gig after the initial 10. £5-£10 per extra 10gig a month? It could work
