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Originally Posted by 0 morgan 0
(sorry if i get the capitalisation wrong on the following measurements im sure you can understand it)
Look 1gb a day is 1024000 kbytes which is 1024mbytes which is 1gb
24hrs in a day x 60 minutes an hour x 60seconds a minute... = 86400 secs/day
1024000 divided by 86400 = 11.8kb/s
So to use our 1gb cap a day we might as well have a 150k connection and if we were to use this 150k 24/7 we'd still go over our 1gb a day limit.
LOL find this ironic? you still want to believe the crap NTL feed you. There broadband speed is a gimik to introduce new customers there cap is an insult to exsisting customers. The last letter i had from NTL was to tell me i was abusing the 56k service and that i should upgrade to the new broadband service that will be introduced soon...
Anyway as stated before if my network was congested the speed would be evenly spread... heres some more maths for you
If my street has a limit of 10mb for the whole street and there are 20 2mb users. If all 20 users were downloading at a max speed at one time we'd all suffer the same congestion limit of 0.5mb (512k) there would be no one downloading faster than anyone else. Yet again your arguement is flawed.
Thanks for your response anyway...
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I'm not sure what you mean by 'believe the crap' - whatever the rights & wrongs, in this instance NTL has given a clear indication of what will be enforced as acceptable use for the three tiers available.
- it may not be to your liking, but I can't see any evidence they are trying to mislead customers - the limits are clearly laid out.
Your description of the contention for any one area ignores the effect of the upstream path - a few heavy users can affect the performance of several others, the bandwith isn't shared as equally as your example suggests.
But we are all in the same boat, after years of being vague about what is 'acceptable use' NTL are putting pegs in the ground - as customers we have the choice of accepting the limits, or taking our business elsewhere. As I see it, the situation really is as simple as that.
