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Ignition · 05-01-2005, 19:15

Find me an ISP in the US with uncapped 4/1 please?

Looking through the only ISP I can see in the US offering 1Mbps upload full stop is Optimum Online, and uploading too much results in a rather rapidly applied upload cap to 256kbit.

Congrats to Tom for completely missing the point though, the whole point of capping these services is to keep the prices decent, an extra ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£5 or ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£10 a month will not justify the expense to an ISP of an uncapped 2Mbps download, and certainly not a 1Mbps upload.

I really think that all this will do is trim off a section of high use users, and it will attract a far higher number of users who use closer to the UK average, which at the moment is 6GB a month....

ntl could certainly do a 1Mbps upload, the only real issue is that the same people demanding it are usually those who don't want to pay for it.

DUMeter report of what I've been doing on my completely uncapped 2Mbit service, including a fair bit of newsgroup usage (I have a paid for usenet service and search engine, I'm obviously just not greedy enough and don't download enough pointless crap that I don't actually want).

05-01-2005, 19:15	#53
Ignition Permanently Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: South-East London Age: 47 Services: Depends who's being serviced :p Posts: 2,588	Re: NTL cap limit Find me an ISP in the US with uncapped 4/1 please? Looking through the only ISP I can see in the US offering 1Mbps upload full stop is Optimum Online, and uploading too much results in a rather rapidly applied upload cap to 256kbit. Congrats to Tom for completely missing the point though, the whole point of capping these services is to keep the prices decent, an extra ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£5 or ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£10 a month will not justify the expense to an ISP of an uncapped 2Mbps download, and certainly not a 1Mbps upload. I really think that all this will do is trim off a section of high use users, and it will attract a far higher number of users who use closer to the UK average, which at the moment is 6GB a month.... ntl could certainly do a 1Mbps upload, the only real issue is that the same people demanding it are usually those who don't want to pay for it. DUMeter report of what I've been doing on my completely uncapped 2Mbit service, including a fair bit of newsgroup usage (I have a paid for usenet service and search engine, I'm obviously just not greedy enough and don't download enough pointless crap that I don't actually want).