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scrotnig · 12-11-2004, 19:20

The mistake all the heavy gamers and music downloaders ALWAYS make, is that they assume that EVERYONE uses as much bandwidth as they do, and consequently slag of all sorts of perfectly good ISPs for not being gaming and p2p centric.

The bottom line is that these users are a tiny, tiny minority, and the vast majority of users are not even remotely bothered about 30gb a month caps or upload speeds. I'd wager the most uploading most people do is a small amount of ftp access for a personal website, if that.

ISPs will always cater for the majority of their customer base. It's as simple as that. I am tired of reading how crap ntl is because it won't facilitate a few online gamers who want to use the service 24 hours a day while burning pirate CDs to sell at the car boot sale. If that's an unfair generalisation, then it's no more unfair than saying ntl is crap for not allowing 500gb per month transfer and 1mb upload speed.

ntl's speed increases coming next year make the product HIGHLY competitive, and far more so than the ADSL equivalents at this point in time. Quite frankly, if people think it's a poor deal, then go out and find an ISP that provides a better one. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

12-11-2004, 19:20	#11
scrotnig cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 2,499	Re: Telewest upload The mistake all the heavy gamers and music downloaders ALWAYS make, is that they assume that EVERYONE uses as much bandwidth as they do, and consequently slag of all sorts of perfectly good ISPs for not being gaming and p2p centric. The bottom line is that these users are a tiny, tiny minority, and the vast majority of users are not even remotely bothered about 30gb a month caps or upload speeds. I'd wager the most uploading most people do is a small amount of ftp access for a personal website, if that. ISPs will always cater for the majority of their customer base. It's as simple as that. I am tired of reading how crap ntl is because it won't facilitate a few online gamers who want to use the service 24 hours a day while burning pirate CDs to sell at the car boot sale. If that's an unfair generalisation, then it's no more unfair than saying ntl is crap for not allowing 500gb per month transfer and 1mb upload speed. ntl's speed increases coming next year make the product HIGHLY competitive, and far more so than the ADSL equivalents at this point in time. Quite frankly, if people think it's a poor deal, then go out and find an ISP that provides a better one. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.