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Originally Posted by dellwear
Ntl won't be doing an upload anything like 1Mbit, I don't think they can.
UKonlines upload isn't half that, although it certanly is a better deal than NTL can put together, there's a list of their LLU exchanges here. |
Yeah, I'm aware that they won't go anywhere near that, but it's nice to dream
I can't see it even going above 256Kbps in the near future, which ****es me off rather a lot I have to say.
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Originally Posted by Ignition
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 £5 or £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.
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Alright, keep your hair on! I wasn't voicing any
expectation that NTL would offer such a package, I was merely suggesting something that would please a lot of people. Looking back, my price was stupid, say £50/month instead.
I understand that they're trying to keep the prices decent. However, I think they could gain a fair amnount of customers by offering more packages than they already do - a 2Mbps/512Kbps package would attract quite a lot of customers, especially if was capped at something a bit more sensible like 100GB/50GB.
In fact, now I've read through my post again, I don't suppose caps bother me all that much, so long as they're set as sensible levels. Offering 2Mbps download speed while only allowing 30GB of data transfer a month seems like madness to me - that's only just over an hour of maxing out per day. Now, if I'm experimenting with Linux distros and I want to get the full package, I'm looking at four or five discs. That's as much as 3.5GB - more than a tenth of my total monthly allowance. In my opinion, a 50GB cap on the 2Mbps package would be much more sensible, with a 75GB one on 3Mbps. But I know that's not going to happen.