[Thorny]

i do think the 256k to 300k upload change is a bit pointless. It would of been nice to see it at 512k. I wonder how much it will actually cost to get that upload speed changed from 256 to 300 without anyone really noticing any sort of change at all. Personally I am considering dropping down to the 2mb tier as its alot cheaper and I basically get the same upload speed as I do now.
If NTL had increased the top upload tier to 512k then I would no doubt use that one instead. Its annoying having to wait a large amount of time to upload the video I have taken with my cam to my web space.

I will probably try the 3mb tier for a few months for novilty value but i REALLY want to see a power users tier. I had to download the world of warcraft beta the other day, as well as the matrix online beta. both of them together were over 6 gigs and I am a subscribed fileplanet user and download many betas a month. Not everyone is a warez kiddy, some of us really do enjoy the speed of broadband and use it for our personal entertainment legally.

With some new companies starting to advertise movies on broadband, I am starting to wonder hwo it will be compatable with speed caps, especially if they are promoted by NTL. "try the new movies via broadband service(P.S you can only watch 10 a month because you will reach your cap)"

Bottom line is, if NTL start to hastle me about my useage then I will simply switch to one of the many advertised no cap services. NTL knows this and thats why they dont strictly enforce the cap as of this moment. But they do know that the majority of customers will be "worried" about this cap and use far less than theya re allowed.


There are always ways to get past port blocking. bittorrent can just be used on any unblocked port you want. so NTL will have to block every port to block bittorrent, which they wont do and is not feasable to do. and as bittorrent seems like the next big p2p thing, such as exeem then port blocking is not going to do much.