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Originally Posted by darkmage46
ive been looking at this thread for a while now and i have to say that while im against any form of cap thats probably because id hardly ever get to the limits, that however is the case on 300k with a 1 gig a day limit, to go up to a 1meg connection with a 3gig a month cap seems rather a step backwards in the overall usability of the connection. This is very averaging math but it looks like a 4 fold speed increase with a 100 fold cap decrease. I understand that the cap is there to maintain the service for all users but the pricing/cap structure seems a bit skewed. What i have difficulty in seeing is that someone using less speed is going to cost more and therefore need a lower cap, after all the actual speed cost how much? i would have thought it was what was done with it e.g. downloading/uploading that actually cost money. I would be very interested to see how much a maxed out 300k or even 1 meg connection cost ntl in data throughput, I know someone is going to argue that the cost to ntl is in upgrading ubr's to cope with maxed out connections but surley ntl should have thought of that before making new speeds available.
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They did.
As I've said before, the number of customers for whom caps is an issue are a tiny, tiny minority of the customer base as a whole. ntl are not going to spend a fortune upgrading the network just to please this tiny few given that they aren't profitable anyway.
Any commercial company needs to look after the overwhelming majority of its customers, not a tiny few. Prices would have to go through the roof to facilitate such an upgrade, and then nobody would pay it.
People who want to download "30 Linux distros every day" will have to find a different ISP, it's that simple.