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Originally Posted by Wiggz
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Why, why, why, can people not grasp the basic maths of this?
Your option 2 is correct. The company, like most broadband providers, don't want high usage customers, end of. To upgrade the network to accommodate these people, who are a tiny, tiny minority, would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, and for what return? A few thousand customers (if that!) spending £38 a month? I really don't think so!
The network is already perfectly stable in my area thank you very much...except when some numbskull starts downloading thousands of music tracks and/or movies to burn onto disc and sell in the pub. Why the frig should the cost of my service increase to pay for a network upgrade to allow such people to carry on with that activity?
And please, can nobody jump in and say they download thirty Linux distributions a week.....no sane residential user needs to do that. If you need to do that, then you need to pay a higher price for your service.
In an ideal world I am not in favour of caps, however, historically these numbskulls will abuse the service until it dies. There is no case for a highly profitable company accommodating these people at standard price, so there is certainly no case for ntl doing it, given the fact they have no money and are not making any.
What amazes me is that these high usage people keep threatening to take their business elsewhere, thinking the company will be crippled when they do. Can you people not understand, this is exactly what the company WANT you to do, so please, stop bleating and clear off!