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Originally Posted by mojo
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.
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Why wouldn't the average user do just that?
Any user, no matter how experienced or how little they use the internet can go to a site that may have been thrown up by a Google search, find the content interesting and download all the PDFs on the site. A new user may be browsing the net for the first time and come across a site containing thumbnails of pictures and decide to download the very large BMPs from there. Inexperience doesn't mean that you just browse sites with little content on them.