All I ever see when I read these threads are people moaning about the caps and those that seem to defend them.
I to be honest am a Heavy user and can on some days download in excess of 10GB so a 1GB a day cap will obviousley hit someone like me very hard.
Of course I do not download this amount every single day but on more than a few occasions in a month I break the 10GB a day barrier. The point here is that although I don't do it all the time it is nice to be able to if I want to.
How impossible is it for NTL to cater for the Heavy user aswell as the "Average" user??
I also read alot of posts saying that "Oh every I.S.P is going to go hard capping soon"
This is a total load of rubbish. there will always be I.S.P's out there who cater for the heavy user and eventually they wil be the ones who get the customers. All it takes is for people to actually find out what is available on the internet and how to use the internet properly.
Some people may be surprised to hear that the internet comprises of a whole lot more than millions of forums and web pages...
What is going to happen when game delivery such as steam becomes common. I know most games from valve will be delivered via this service in the future. NTL users will simply not be able to use it. Half Life 2 comes in at over 4GB, with NTL that would take 4 days or more to download.....Why should we dip out?
What will happen when video rental via download becomes mainstream? Again NTL users will not be able to take part. There are a couple of these sites already popping up in the states and they are proving pretty popular.
It just seems that the whole future of broadband is about to take off but there is no suitable package available to NTL users to be able to appreciate them. The PC will very soon become the main peice of Home Entertainment kit and will be responsible for movies, music etc.. All streamed from the net.
In fact in my lates Custom PC magazine Hitachi has developed a TV with Braodband connection and a 160GB hard disc to accomadate this forth coming revolution. At the moment it is only available in japan but hopefully we will see things like this soon to. For reasons like this I believe that NOT all I.S.P's are going to go hard capped and MANY will cater for the heavy user becuase the "HEAVY" user will simply be part of a not to distant future. Sadly that future user may not be with NTL??
Just to make this post a little longer I just want to go back to the 100MBIT service that was talked about a while ago. Was the DIRECTOR of NTL not talking about video streaming and movie downloads etc... And that there was need for a 100MB line in the "Not to distant Future".........And then they go and cap their current flagship product at 1GB per day?? Hardly "Future" thinking now is it?
Other I.S.P's seem to offer such a higher cap compared with NTL and I fail to see why they cannot match them? Pkusnet currently limit their flagship product to 75GB per month. 1-8AM does NOT count towards this giving a potential of 275GB per month download...NTL?? 30GB p/m (or 1GB a day)
Ukonline?? 500GB per month...NTL?? 30GB per month (1GB per day)
I find it quite fascinating that the difference between the caps is so huge. Over 200GB more on the smallest one. Forget BT etc.. as they are crap and are just after money.
Why can NTL not cater for people like myself who want the bandwidth? What will happen in the future when people actually USE the internet? Surely NTL will have to change their packages? Hopefully they will not leave it to late becuase Broadband is picking up very quicly and only those that look to what the future holds will still be standing.
