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Originally Posted by ian@huth
I would define peak as the time when most traffic exists which can be any time of night or day. Offering unlimited traffic in your off-peak hours of midnight to 4pm can severely impact on customers who need to use their connection at those times. Just think about the serious bandwidth hogs who would queue up downloads to utilize all those off-peak hours and who allow their upstream bandwidth to be used by people who are not NTL customers and don't contribute a penny to the costs of maintaining the NTL networks. The end result would probably be that your so called peak hours have lower traffic than your off-peak hours.
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Originally Posted by Ignition
Really who cares though the point of a cap should be to avoid severe service affect to existing customers while not breaking the bank.
Not really the customer's problem if ntl offer more than they can afford to handle, averting congestion while controlling costs should be the aim (which is why customers are assigned x kbps) the quieter times where bandwidth is underused are wastes of this bandwidth which costs the same pretty much whatever and really should be utilised as much as is practical.
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Sorry I snipped it but agree with what you said, I got annoyed earlier I was watching a bbc stream at my sister's house and it started skipping on 256kbit, they are on the 1mbit package. I tried it again at home and was the same but slightly less skipping, I tried juggling proxies but it made no difference. If they cant stop a 256kbit stream skipping their is some clear over saturation of bandwidth which is rather annoying considering the caps are supposed to manage this problem.
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Originally Posted by DieDieMyDarling
2 - Most if not all of the people that i personally know, who use a lot (40+GB a month) of bandwidth, do so overnight, including myself. All the people that have already been leeching have been doing so overnight, and as Ignition says, the peak hours still use up double the bandwidth of the off peak hours.
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Same I download overnight, it is pretty depressing if I attempt it during the evening. During the evening I will only do basic web browsing and email's.