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scrotnig · 03-03-2005, 22:52

It's all about 'fair and reasonable use' these days. The service is designed and built around ordinary, residential use. Downloading 24/7 is excessive and not deemed to be 'normal' use.

It's the same contentious issue as the unmetered time caps, and for exactly the same reason. People will never agree on it because they will always claim that any restrictions are a bad thing. Fair point, but the companies will claim that if people hammer the connection 24/7, then they lose money by providing it and the price would need to increase so much to cover that, that it would price ordinary users out of it. Also a fair point.

So, in all reality, here in the real world, the best we can hope for is that caps will be enforced reasonably and realistically. ntl have so far done that, (apart from the somewhat sneaky way they were intoroduced, which I think they learned a lesson over), whether that continues, only time will tell.

03-03-2005, 22:52	#366
scrotnig Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 2,499	*Re: ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please (Part 2)** It's all about 'fair and reasonable use' these days. The service is designed and built around ordinary, residential use. Downloading 24/7 is excessive and not deemed to be 'normal' use. It's the same contentious issue as the unmetered time caps, and for exactly the same reason. People will never agree on it because they will always claim that any restrictions are a bad thing. Fair point, but the companies will claim that if people hammer the connection 24/7, then they lose money by providing it and the price would need to increase so much to cover that, that it would price ordinary users out of it. Also a fair point. So, in all reality, here in the real world, the best we can hope for is that caps will be enforced reasonably and realistically. ntl have so far done that, (apart from the somewhat sneaky way they were intoroduced, which I think they learned a lesson over), whether that continues, only time will tell.