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Originally Posted by homealone
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.  |
Look for most people they see 1mb, 2mb and 3mb as fast connections, they dont realise that the caps actually enforce there connection down to what might as well be a 150k speed. NTL tell you its a good deal, i was already on NTL when they announced the upgraded speed... being a 512k and then 750k customer i didnt have a choice if i upgraded to 2mb. I knew that i would be using my connection to download huge files, NTL already knwe this i'd been a customer abusing there 750k system for over 2 years... NTL uprgraded me even though they knew i used more than 1gb a day even on the 750k (more like 2gb - 3gb a day) so by upgrading me to a faster speed do they really believe this would stop me using my bandwidth... heck no im going to continue doing so at a faster pace than before. If they cut me off then whos fault is it...? mine - of course its mine... but who the hell upgraded me in the first place KNOWING that i was already an abuser - NTL... now tell me which service was better value for OUR money (not NTLs) like i said if you wanna get ****ed thats fine but the fact is you got ****ed its your decision whether you take that or not... telling me im an abuser has got nothing to do with my argument. Look if i was a new user NTL would have everyright to do what they want, but NTL took the risk of upgrading me knowing the consequences...
Imagine a serial killer whos been killing for two years and gets put in jail... but the prision decide to free him and equip him with a larger weapon so he can kill more people WHO THE HELL IS TO BLAME> the killer or the prision???
i rest my case.