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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground
If they can't sustain the speed for the price, don't offer it  Simples. It's the same argument I will continue to have with any ISP that throttles because the user is downloading too much. BT haven't had a problem since their infrastructure was built to cope. |
No ISP can sustain that level of usage if too many customers do it. The services are cheap because they are oversubscribed.
BT do actually have problems, incidentally, and their infrastructure wasn't built to cope. Earlier this year they had 15% of their network running outside of planned levels
I have had 3 sets of capacity issues with my FTTC since last year, one at a BT metro node, one on an SVLAN running from this exchange, and one due to congestion at BT's 21CN core sites.
If every ISP had to sell only what they could guarantee we'd all be paying what we are now for 500k - 1Mb.
I know what you're saying but it's a completely unrealistic argument.