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Re: NTL - New 1MB / 5GB Cap - should I subscribe @ 300k with NO CAP ?
It depends - The question of 1Mbit / 5Gb per month (where the cap is clearly to avoid every current 750k user piling in to a cheap 1Mbit), 300k at £2 cheaper (and will it have the 5Gb cap, the 1Gb/day soft cap, or a lower limit than the 1 Mbit?), being forced up to the next tier (but I'd probably bail out to a currently unlimited 512K ADSL, as there is a BT line available).
By my current metering, I'd probably be ok with 5 Gb/month, but leaving little room to use broadband like broadband - to put it another way, anything I can't do with 300k now, would burn too much of the 5Gb quota too quickly, but anything I AM doing with 300k now, I could do faster.
Though I have misgivings about any cap that's within my "need to watch it" possibility, they've probably set it about right, though I'd jump at half the speed and at least twice the quota or no quota, a threshold which would then be "out of sight".
The other question, the quota includes, of course:
1. Download and upload
2. Email and newsgroups (including spam)
3. Probably the junk as well, pings, and other crap hitting your firewall with YOUR IP address on it.
The other stuff that some PC based monitor programs count are:
1. Broadcast traffic, eg. DHCP traffic to others in the same segment (your firewall sees this)
2. ARP traffic - there is a LOT, and this registers as a constant background of about 0.8Kb/s on some monitors - I believe this has been referred to as a defect in the way ARP is handled from the UBR, as if ARP results were cached, it should NOT need a constant barrage of ARP
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