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Originally Posted by ianathuth
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.
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An inexperienced user wouldn't want 3mb, especially not for 37.99 a month. People who will justify that amount of money a month, will be people who want the speed for a reason. People who download a lot of big files, and wish to do it quicker. A few gamers might also do it, thinking (wrongly) it will give them better pings. Etc. I honestly think anyone who doesn't see through ntl's reasons for doing this, are fooling only themselves.
This is meant to be an advertising ploy. 'We have the fastest "national" speeds' - 'even our lowest teir customers are on 1mb' - 'Our cable tv service is very unreliable, our email servers work when they feel like it, our newsgroup servers are missing in action, and our transparent proxies will see to it that some of your favourite websites just can't be found'... oh hang on, they never use the truth in adverts, my bad.
