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Originally Posted by mojo
Leased lines are expensive for many reasons. You get a business level service, with guaruntees about reliability and bandwidth. You expect the email servers to be working, for example. Also, leased lines tend to be higher speed than comsumer broadband. In effect they are subsidising the technology until it drops in price enough for consumers. Leased lines have better contention ratios too.
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I agree with all that but that is what some customers expect for their budget price.
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Originally Posted by mojo
Many ADSL providers seem to be able to supply an unlimited service and make a profit. NTL service is nowhere near a lased line, but to be honest I'd be happy to have a "bare bones" connection without email and news servers if it was unlimited. They are useless anyway, I have Gmail and ClaraNews. How's that for a trade?
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Who says they are making a profit? Not much of a trade is it, why not pay the going rate for the kind of service that you want.
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Originally Posted by mojo
One other problem with the cap that no-one has mentioned is DOS attacks. My IP hasn't changed for months. If someone wanted to DOS me, they could flood my downstream overnight. By doing that for a few hours a night (when I wouldn't notice) they could easily run me over the 30GB limit in a few days.
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Are you that important that you think you are in danger of a DOS attack. Many customers would pay extra for a fixed IP. Another point is do you know what traffic NTL will count towards the cap. It all won't count.