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Mauldor · 21-02-2005, 19:10

Dial up, why could people not stay online 24/7 ??? Cos there was only so many racks of modems so they forced a 2 hour cut off so people had a fighting chance to connect when they called. Fast Forward to Now, All ISP's want to impose a Cap, to restrict your useage - reason (there is a few) not enough bandwidth to manage the number of people connected to one point. Sounds familiar - so can we say then the Model of Cable Modem / ADSL has been outgrown yes??

The workd of Data is growing, Game demos which used to be small now come in at a Full CD Almost, MMORPG clients are DVD Sizes (WoW etc). Everytime someone mentioned they download a lot, Immedialty people jump on the "you are a Pirate" Bus - I have No idea whatsoever how much I download a day never mind a month, any Utils are rendered useless as Im on a LAN - so that gets clocked up too.

Maybe in XX years time we will look back at Broadband the same way we look at Dial up now. When a Leased Line got installed for a company I worked at they never dug up the road from Bradford to London, yet they felt the need to charge if i remeber ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£45,000 a ayear (was some time back).

Im sure someone mentioned its fibre most of the way on NTL, the last bit been copper, is it not technically possible to somehow replace that copper bit with something else? Did they not wire (close to NTL I will admit) a 155mbit line as a test?

The Plusnet model I can understand (capping) as the cost to BT is factored in on the cost - NTL on the other hand do not pay BT for such things - why is NTL / Telewest not the leading edge rather than keeping up with the rest?

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Mauldor Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scunthorpe Age: 59 Services: 50mbit, Base TV, Base Phone Posts: 437	*Re: ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please (Part 2)** Dial up, why could people not stay online 24/7 ??? Cos there was only so many racks of modems so they forced a 2 hour cut off so people had a fighting chance to connect when they called. Fast Forward to Now, All ISP's want to impose a Cap, to restrict your useage - reason (there is a few) not enough bandwidth to manage the number of people connected to one point. Sounds familiar - so can we say then the Model of Cable Modem / ADSL has been outgrown yes?? The workd of Data is growing, Game demos which used to be small now come in at a Full CD Almost, MMORPG clients are DVD Sizes (WoW etc). Everytime someone mentioned they download a lot, Immedialty people jump on the "you are a Pirate" Bus - I have No idea whatsoever how much I download a day never mind a month, any Utils are rendered useless as Im on a LAN - so that gets clocked up too. Maybe in XX years time we will look back at Broadband the same way we look at Dial up now. When a Leased Line got installed for a company I worked at they never dug up the road from Bradford to London, yet they felt the need to charge if i remeber ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£45,000 a ayear (was some time back). Im sure someone mentioned its fibre most of the way on NTL, the last bit been copper, is it not technically possible to somehow replace that copper bit with something else? Did they not wire (close to NTL I will admit) a 155mbit line as a test? The Plusnet model I can understand (capping) as the cost to BT is factored in on the cost - NTL on the other hand do not pay BT for such things - why is NTL / Telewest not the leading edge rather than keeping up with the rest?