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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004
Until the day that the technology is available whereby if you achieve 10mb connection for example then you are charged for that, a kind of sliding scale for example on average.
If it is £30 for 10mb per month, this equates to £3 per mb?
You are charged for the average speed you achieve over that month, why can this not be possible?
Going back to my argument, if I dont get a full pound why should I pay for a full pound?
But hang on, far much easier just to say, you get upto 10mb, even if you dont achieve that speed tough ****sky ( as the russians say ) 
Your point about the telephone service is right, there is not a lot that can go wrong regardless who the provider, it is the cost that it boils down to, and sadly the cs when things with NTL do go wrong. |
I suppose that the ISP could charge on metered data throughput but who in their right mind wants metering?
When you buy a pound of apples it is something that can be measured and never varies. When you subscribe to a broadband internet connection you are paying for something more akin to buying an airline ticket. That ticket enables you to fly from A to B but gives no guarantee of how long that journey may take. Congestion at the airport, technical problems with the aircraft and the speed and direction of the wind can all affect the journey time.
Your 10Mb internet connection will only work at that speed if the sites that you are connecting to are capable of transferring to you at that speed. There must also be enough capacity in the interconnecting infrastructure for that speed to be maintained. You are then dependent on what the other customers on your UBR card are doing. Being a contended service at a budget price there is every chance that other customers usage can affect your service particularly at peak times. Traffic shaping by the ISP can also result in you not getting the full speed.