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Originally Posted by ian@huth
Having 10 Mb unrestricted would mean that as few as four users can have a serious impact on the service of all users on the same part of the network as themselves.
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I do get that but surely, the back-end infrastructure must be able to cope with demand. Example, you have say 100 users on a particular switch - upgrade them all to 10Mbps but forget to take into account that the switch is only capable of delivering 5Mbps (per user) to 100 users at any one time.
Fibre cabling is capable of delivering massive amounts of bandwidth so the bottleneck becomes the networking hardware which should be upgraded to meet the requirements of the users.
It would make more sense for NTL to offer everybody a slower product but allow everybody to consume as much bandwidth as they liked. The issue isn't the actual amount of data BUT the simple fact that, as an ISP, NTL are not capable of supplying each user with the maximum amount of bandwidth to everybody at any one time. That is fair enough but why dont they admit that rather than trying to release a product that they can brag about when it suits them but lambast customers for trying to use it.
An analogy I've seen on this forum many times is "its like telling customers subscribing to cable TV that they are aloowed to only watch x number of hours a day". Cable TV uses the same infrastructure and the same cabling yet people dont get a "usage allowance" on that.
One more point, before I go into meltdown, if NTL and Telewest are merging and Telewest DO NOT (AFAIK) put a usage allowance on any of their services, will that mean NTL will follow suit or will (former) Telewest services become subject to these measures. In fact, one FINAL point, for this post at least - if Telewest are able to offer unlimited download services, why aren't NTL?