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Re: NTL cap limit
At the moment, the 1Gb/day is a guideline - break it 3 times in a fortnight and they MAY be having words, but it seems unlikely unless you are putting an unacceptable strain on the network - that is what people usually mean by the "soft cap".
The NEW tariffs for 2005 - 1, 2 and 3 Megabit, come with 5Gb, 30 Gb and 40Gb monthly caps, and tighter enforcement ("hard cap") is expected - though what form it's likely to take is not yet known.
What was the "lite" tier at 300k, moves to 1Mbit, and since that is a throughput that cost £34.99 not so long ago, at £17.99 it gets a 5Gb cap to make it a "lite" service.
Anyway, uploads, they don't like, there is much less upload capacity than download, and from past reports, uploading more than 300Mb/day is considered unreasonable.
The current services are also 300k down / 64k up (128 up on STB)
750 down / 128 up
1.5Mbit down / 256k up
If you have 512k down/256k up ADSL on a no-cap provider at a decent price, then do not give NTL a second thought.
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