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Originally Posted by ianathuth
There are many websites that contain links which if the user clicks on every one will take substantially more time on a 750k connection than on a 3 Mb connection. When a person visits a website they do tend to click on the links within it. I visit a website every now and then which is basically nothing but a list of links to very large PDF files and you can certainly see the difference that hish speed connections make.
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Doesn't your own argument defeat that? Surely the "average" user, whoever that is, isn't going to be downloading many large PDF files. No, NTL are doing this is they can put a big number on their adverts and claim to be faster/cheaper than everyone else.
That's generally fine for the "standard" 2Mb package, but the point is that there isn't going to be a package for high bandwidth users. The 3Mb is still capped. I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to order it, since the difference it would make to anyone who stays within the cap limit will be nill.
The problem for NTL is that something like this is enough to push people away, since BT and Sky offer better stuff anyway. I think it will scare a lot of people off too, since they will know that if they get ADSL they can switch provider fairly easily if their ISP suddenly becomes rubbish.