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stuG · 08-03-2005, 22:30

Personally, I think NTL have it all wrong....

Why cap download ... capping upload is much more fun...

This will do 2 things maybe even more...

1. reduce the stress on the bandwidth (as some of you may know if you upload on ntl your download will decrease not by the amount but by a greater amount than that..

1a. it will present ntl with the envious task of being able to prove to the anti-warez lobbies (mpaa/riaa/god/etc) that they are doing something to limit users of these services. By highlighting the ppl that constantly upload this will enable them to look more interestingly at those customers using there service, and discuss if neccessary how to moderate there bandwidth (or make them aware they are a botnet drone for some virus maker somewhere)

1b. I know ignition has mentioned Optimum Online waaay back in the thread, they adopted this kind of policy. My friend at the time was living there and had OO, he thought it was great very fast when you needed it but if you upload past your level (3 hrs @ full upload) it capped, he know but once he phoned and they checked for kazaa running (and possibly others). Now if NTL adopted this wouldn't most peoples issues in here disappear.

2. The main result is to stop the power users from becoming power abusers, but are we talking really about download or upload, the type of heavy user ntl do not want is the kazaa kiddies. Well if you could do the upload cap policy instead of download then I think this will address most of the issue. After so much of uploading at say 20Kb's (256k upload for 3 hours) your capped/monitored whatever.

Perhaps this is something for folks to critisise, flame or champion..

08-03-2005, 22:30	#1050
stuG Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Cambridgeshire (St IVES) Posts: 64	*Re: [Merged] ALL* ntl Cap Discussion In Here Please.** Personally, I think NTL have it all wrong.... Why cap download ... capping upload is much more fun... This will do 2 things maybe even more... 1. reduce the stress on the bandwidth (as some of you may know if you upload on ntl your download will decrease not by the amount but by a greater amount than that.. 1a. it will present ntl with the envious task of being able to prove to the anti-warez lobbies (mpaa/riaa/god/etc) that they are doing something to limit users of these services. By highlighting the ppl that constantly upload this will enable them to look more interestingly at those customers using there service, and discuss if neccessary how to moderate there bandwidth (or make them aware they are a botnet drone for some virus maker somewhere) 1b. I know ignition has mentioned Optimum Online waaay back in the thread, they adopted this kind of policy. My friend at the time was living there and had OO, he thought it was great very fast when you needed it but if you upload past your level (3 hrs @ full upload) it capped, he know but once he phoned and they checked for kazaa running (and possibly others). Now if NTL adopted this wouldn't most peoples issues in here disappear. 2. The main result is to stop the power users from becoming power abusers, but are we talking really about download or upload, the type of heavy user ntl do not want is the kazaa kiddies. Well if you could do the upload cap policy instead of download then I think this will address most of the issue. After so much of uploading at say 20Kb's (256k upload for 3 hours) your capped/monitored whatever. Perhaps this is something for folks to critisise, flame or champion..