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Originally Posted by Paul M
You would have exactly the same problem if you were on ADSL with the "standard" 50:1 contention ratio - if someone started downloading 300GB a month then it would affect the other 49 - if a few started it then the rest would be in trouble. That is the whole problem of a contended system - you share the bandwidth, if one or two start hogging it then the rest suffer.
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So by countering the download whores who pump 8gb+ a day, they offer the customers faster connections, so they can leech even faster. In my opinion, I'd be happy with a 1Mb connection being the maximum available if there was no download cap limit. How much bandwidth is available to each UBR then? I wonder how that compares with Telewest's UBR bandwidth setup...
It's strange really, because we got on NTL's 512k connection a few years ago as it was advertised for being better for people with more than one computer in their house. Having three computers in the house which all have access, this looked the best option. Couple of years later, they slap this download limit on us (after making a 1Mb service available which then went to 1.5Mb and now at 3Mb).
I was on the 1.5Mb connection (£37.99 pm) as I liked being able to get software/game updates quick and easy and I went through a phase of wanting to try different linux distros (this was shortly after all that with msblast etc came about :p). I've now "dropped" to a 2Mb service (£24.99 pm) because I don't see the extra speed worthwhile for what I use the internet for. It's still very quick getting my updates and the odd visit to the news-server.
NTL want to rephrase their caps in my opinion. Instead of 1Gb a day, it should be 50Gb a month maybe - I can often go over 1Gb a day over the period of a week (this I would imagine would earn me a cap letter?) but for the remainder of the month I may barely use the internet.
Like I said before... I signed up to an unlimited service. Had I wanted a cap, I would go to JJB and buy one or use "Wanadont" broadband. No, I have never downloaded over 200Gb a month... to be fair, I dont think I've ever done over 100Gb a month. To blame this on the people who use it a lot is a little unfair in my eyes. If NTL really want to teach these people a lesson, they should put all the persistant offenders onto the same UBR... let them fight for bandwidth between themselves - it'll be amazing to see the influx of calls to disconnections!
But like many other people have probably mentioned... we dont see Telewest incurring download limits on their connections, and their flagship package is 4Mb download with 384Kb upload - talk about a "download whore's" fantasy (well... apart from the huge pipes they appear to have in Japan and such places!)
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Originally Posted by piaswales
btw, what is linux?! lol sorry if that makes me sound daft!!  |
It's like an alternative to Windows... because its mainly "Open Source" (i.e. the code that the program is made of is easily obtained), its highly customisable to a user's requirements. Its a lot more common these days after the vulnerabilities that Windows have (or had - depending on when updates come out and what they fix) have been greatly publicised and making people more aware about security.
However, Linux wont give you instant security - its like your house in a way... leave the window open and someone
could try to get in. Computer security is similar - has lots of "windows" which open/close to allow traffic through them.
Errr... back to the 1Gb cap subject anyway
