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Originally Posted by ianathuth
It's not damn easy to go over 30Gb a month. Don't blame the kids for excessive and illegal use, control them. Do you let them have free reign with your telephone, they may be racking up massive bills calling their friends mobiles
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I have no children here to control, but I do know families where the parents work and can't sit over their children 24/7 to watch how much they download, even if they knew how to monitor their usage.
When using a PC it's not particularly obvious that someone is downloading gigs worth of movies in the background when they're playing a game or whatever, remember, we live in a society where the youngest members of a family are often far more tech savvy than their bill paying parents. Do a survey of NTL customers and find out how many know what task manager is or how many megabytes are in a gigabyte.
I guess NTL want superfit parents running back and forward checking on their childrens usage by using bandwidth monitoring software with the parents pointing out what they can and can't download, calculator in hand. You really don't have a clue and need to move into the real world.
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Originally Posted by ianathuth
Viruses and trojans are rarely if ever going to result in massive regular bandwidth consumption. Most things in life have to be monitored, gas, electricity, water, petrol, telephone, credit card usage, cash spent, etc. etc. so why not internet usage.
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Because NTL amongst other companies grew big and fat from people using their internet in an unrestricted environment.First the carrot, now the stick. For the most part you don't find people watching the clock when using the net, we grew out of that when broadband became an affordable possiblilty and left 56k behind, now NTL want the stopwatch to start ticking again. Maybe CUT should restart their campaigning.
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Originally Posted by ianathuth
The internet is not free and users have to pay the cost of using it. If you want unlimited internet access on the cheap then QOS will suffer. If you want a decent service then you will eventually have to pay a much higher price or face usage restrictions.
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I don't want an unlimited service, but I do want NTL to survive as a company. If it's making money now with all those nasty leeching pirates selling DVD's and XBox games why change things, hell scrap the speed upgrades and leave the soft caps as they are.Then put the monitoring in place and boot the 200gig per month downloaders. Problem is, NTL want headline grabbing speeds to attract people to cable away from DSL(remember to read the small print guys!) but don't want to finance the necessary network upgrades.