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Originally Posted by patchwork
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
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I'm not disagreeing with you i also think the cap is a bit on the low side, but some people on this forum and i know a few personally in my area are pulling off 10 gig+ in a day every day. Now you canot seriously tell me that someone who is downloading that much traffic every day is totally 100% legit. It is those users that NTL should curtail first and if that means cutting them off then so be it IMO. If it is impacting on other users then something has to give. At the end of the day the cap is coming and no amount of complaining is gonna change that. If some one really needs to download over 10 gig a day then they should either not be on a residential line, or really need to get out a bit more.
