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NSR · 04-03-2005, 13:29

Hi I'm New! I've been glancing over some of the posts on the forthcoming speed increases. There seems to be a lot of concern on capping, My personal view on this is that NTL's sytem is inadequate for 'ordinary users' (whoever they maybe)

as it stands at the moment and any speed increase is welcome and long overdue, as has been stated before.
I digress!

My Comment on Capping
I'm on 750 and access speeds to Webmail is laughable, so I redirect it to Microsoft

.
At the moment if you go over the 1Gb daily limit NTL 'backdoor' you on port80, if you use ZA it generates a warning that your computer is being hacked, but ZA has prevented it.(they also hide under the guise of Virgin.net when they do this)
This suggests to me that NTL are already trying to identify errant users, and have the already started to implement their capping strategy.

I have been 'backdoored' by NTL no less than 15 times over the weekend, that's when I do most of my downloading. (and I thought 'hacking' was illegal

)

Perhaps someone else can confrim this.

I hope this information is useful and of interest in the Speed Upgrade/Capping debate.
If this has been mentioned before I appologise for not studiously reading every post, as there are quite a lot of them!!!

regards to all
NSR

04-03-2005, 13:29	#412
NSR Inactive Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Dunbartonshire Services: Freeview, NTL 750 Broadband Posts: 4	*Re: ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please (Part 2) Hi I'm New! I've been glancing over some of the posts on the forthcoming speed increases. There seems to be a lot of concern on capping, My personal view on this is that NTL's sytem is inadequate for 'ordinary users' (whoever they maybe) as it stands at the moment and any speed increase is welcome and long overdue, as has been stated before. I digress! My Comment on Capping I'm on 750 and access speeds to Webmail is laughable, so I redirect it to Microsoft . At the moment if you go over the 1Gb daily limit NTL 'backdoor' you on port80, if you use ZA it generates a warning that your computer is being hacked, but ZA has prevented it.(they also hide under the guise of Virgin.net when they do this) This suggests to me that NTL are already trying to identify errant users, and have the already started to implement their capping strategy. I have been 'backdoored' by NTL no less than 15 times over the weekend, that's when I do most of my downloading. (and I thought 'hacking' was illegal ) Perhaps someone else can confrim this. I hope this information is useful and of interest in the Speed Upgrade/Capping debate. If this has been mentioned before I appologise for not studiously reading every post, as there are quite a lot of them!!! regards to all NSR**