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Originally Posted by Doofy
My online gaming doesnt use that much bandwidth i have been monitoring it since the capping was talked about. Now i used to be a serious power user and i do mean serious. I never really thought about the impact my usage was having on other users. I used to download a lot of dvd stuff from usenet so 20 gig in just over a day and a half was nothing to me. But as i have stated i have had a change of heart over this one and if my activities cause NTL to contact me then i will take action to alter my usage. I fail to see how people can legaaly download 10 gig+ a day and the last time i looked it did not state in the NTL AUP that they condone the downloading of illegal materials. I am not saying that is what everyone is doing but to pull off over 10 gig a day is defintely suspect i know i used to do it.
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You don't have to be doing anything illegal or even slightly suspect to break the 1GB barrier. A lot of games use wemcams and microphones, that coupled with the game data and your starting to use a fair bit of bandwidth. Now give it 12 months and that game bandwidth will be doubled or possibly even trippled. (or more)
It wasn't that long ago when 1GB was A LOT of data, I remember getting my first 20mb harddisc (not a typo) and thinking WOW I'm never going to fill all that space, I also remember getting Windows on 4 floppy discs, but times change very very quickly, and nowadays 1GB isn't that much at all.
60 minutes of download time.
12% of a DVD
A few game demo's
1/400th of new hard disc.
1 or 2 hours of live video.
20 mins of DVD quality video.
It won't be long until 1GB seems like a floppy disc worth of data, and even the lamest of internet users will be using WAY more than 1GB per day.
Personally I think It's very sad that a major ISP such as NTL are bringing in caps, especially when really cool technologies such as broadband TV are just starting to take off.
The internet was only born yesterday, lets not kill it before it even gets a chance to crawl.
Pete