[ian@huth]

With all this talk of capping it's worth considering a few points.

NTL do not want to lose customers to the opposition so they will offer the highest speeds possible, both upload and download, that the infrastructure can cope with and which doesn't impact on customers performance.

Having said that, NTL would be glad to get rid of some customers and we all know why and what they do.

NTL want to ensure its customers get a good quality of service and will use capping to try to ensure that they do.

NTL infrastructure and development needs money spending on it which means they have to have a pricing structure which ensures this money is forthcoming.

The vast majority of NTL customers will get nowhere near the caps.

Doubling download speeds does not mean that customers must double the volume that they download. As an analagy, buying a new car that has a top speed double that of your current car doesn't mean that you have to travel twice as many miles.

Watching streaming video and listening to streaming audio may eat up bandwidth and make the caps easier to reach so why not try using those alternatives that give better quality and do not use any bandwidth. TV, radio, hifi, cd player, dvd player spring to mind but there are others besides.