[martikus]

Hi im new and i'd like to throw my two pence in. I have the 1.5mb connection with NTL and i look forward to the new speeds. 40gb per month will be great. But i hope that they continue to handle the capping in the same way they are now. It is quite easy to go above that limit as at the moment it's set at an unofficial 30gb per month.It is possible to do this legitamatly. And before you say anything no i don't use kazaa!!!! I subscribe to I-tunes, i am also an avid gamer and most game demo's are around the 600mb level. Also i love downloading mods for my games. I recently downloaded a mod for an old game called baldursgate 2 and that clocked in at 1.2gb!! I also love playing mmorpg's and i love trialing Alpha and Beta tests of theese games. they can be anything from 1-3gb each to download and that doesn't even include patching them!!! Now i Know what you'll all say, whynot buy magazines for the demos, well why should i when i have net access and get them for free. I have monitered my average usage and that has come out at about 9gb per month so well within the cap but on rare occations i do go over as with last month i downloaded the world of warcraft beta 2.3gb, Everquest trial 1.3gb, 5other beta's which clocked in at 12gb between them. varius linux packages to try it out for the first time. Game demo's, etc. in total my usage was 31gb. Now i don't want to be penalised for going over my limit this one month when it was the first time in 6 monthes. Surely NTL should target the continual abusers and kick them from the network, rather than enforce ocational overuse!!!!