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Originally Posted by 0 morgan 0
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.
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Just because NTL are increasing the speeds doesn't mean that you have to download twice as much. Why not download the same as before?
I have chosen to go on the new 1Mb service because my normal usage pattern is achievable within the 3Gb per month cap with some to spare. If I want more than that when the caps are firmly in place I will either pay for the extra or upgrade to a higher tier for a month and then drop back down again.
You are looking at it the wrong way if you look at the volume that someone wants to download in a month and then works out what speed they have to be on to spread that download evenly over the month. The other day I reformatted one of my daughters PCs, reinstalled the operating system and then downloaded antivirus, firewall, windows updates, drivers and a few more things. I wanted them much faster than a dialup would get them and ideally would have preferred a 3Mb connection in order to save time that day.