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Originally Posted by Doofy

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.

If a small percentage of users can degrade the service then NTL should spend money on updating its hardware. As each day passes every person that uses the net will use more and more bandwidth, and if they are getting slow downs now then its only going to get a hell of a lot worse as each day passes.

If they are stuggling now due to 5% of the users downloading 10GB then we are probably looking at a company on the slope to bankrupcy.

What if I want to watch a couple of the latest movies, while the kids are playing online games and the wife wants to catch up with episodes of eastenders?

2 Movies @ 1.5Gb each
3 Episodes of eastenders = 2GB
2 games, lets say they use 1GB between them

This totals 6GB, and that's just a few hours of light entertainment in the evening.

This will be a common scene in many households within the next year or two, ALL the film companies and all serious broadcasters are looking at and moving towards video-on-demand and tv-on-demand, even the latest version of divx is geared towards suppling video straight to your DVD player.

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5427731.html
http://www.homechoice.co.uk/our_tv.html
http://www.2wire.com/?p=11

Pete