[Hippo]

Just a word from this very middle aged newbie, who has just gone on to the lowest 300k service from NTL. from a regular the dial up service.

I down loaded one of the many measuring tools mentioned and ran it for 48 hours.

Conclusion for me?

If you are on the 300k service don`t touch the speed increase with it`s cap while you still have the option to remain where you are!!

A very ordinary for me use gave me a figure of 0.831GB over the two days, at a faster sevice for sure than dialup but overall not much different in total to normal dial up use, it just happend faster.

We are not talking exoctic stuff here, just E mail, sending photo`s to relitives, normal windows and other sofwear updates, a little streaming radio, downloading a couple of music tunes, installed computer stuff doing routine updates and regular forum visits combined with the odd post.

Just the same pattern of use I used with dial up!!

With a 3 GB cap I would die in about 7 days!!

Hippo