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Kaychsea · 31-10-2005, 15:17

As everybody else does it I will stick my tuppence worth in again.

The high bandwidth users are working under the assumption that what they are doing is reasonable use and that anybody using broadband access is going to find the system unusable if they can't pull down 100s of gigs of data in whatever form they want.

NTL is working on the assumption that it's their network and will apportion access to it at the rates they want, for the access (speed and volume) that they think the market will stand. For the vast bulk of users I suspect that the current speeds and caps are about right. If not the vast migration of users to AOL et al might give them cause to reconsider.

So they will consider the heavy download brigade as specialist users requiring a specialist service. Which they will charge a special price for, no doubt.

So it's a bit like real life. If you want a better service you pay for it.

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Kaychsea Inactive Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Surrey Services: VM TV XL, VM BB M Posts: 131	*Re: ALL* ntl Cap Discussion (Part 3)** As everybody else does it I will stick my tuppence worth in again. The high bandwidth users are working under the assumption that what they are doing is reasonable use and that anybody using broadband access is going to find the system unusable if they can't pull down 100s of gigs of data in whatever form they want. NTL is working on the assumption that it's their network and will apportion access to it at the rates they want, for the access (speed and volume) that they think the market will stand. For the vast bulk of users I suspect that the current speeds and caps are about right. If not the vast migration of users to AOL et al might give them cause to reconsider. So they will consider the heavy download brigade as specialist users requiring a specialist service. Which they will charge a special price for, no doubt. So it's a bit like real life. If you want a better service you pay for it.