[bbr81]

well if my download of 172gig is about 512kb line flat out for 24/7.

then my 172gig on a 3meg line is about 6 days flat out of 30 day month.

To me 6 days flat out, out of 30 possible days is exceptable. When you spread taht 6 day usage across the 30 days (maybe not even spread), a companies infrastructure should be able to cope with that.

If I were to download non stop 24/7 on my 3meg line i could manage over 950gig of data.

So i see ADSL offering 2meg unlimited download. so in one month that is 648gig. 1meg 24/7 is 324gig. 512kb=165gig 24/7.

If they offer unlimited they should adhere to it. But companies do state up 2meg rate (maybe peak slow you down - fine).

I still think if NTL want you to manage your download they should provide a means of logging into a user area and seeing your download for that month/week/day, show the user the statistics that NTL can see (or some user friendly page). I hope NTL have up to date live statitics of their broadband users usage?

BB