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Originally Posted by Richy99
probably not enough users on the high speed adsl services for it to get saturated
capped or uncapped is not relevant as number of users is what causes it not whether they are capped, there is no difference to 100 capped 10meg users accessing the same point as 1000 1meg users it still has the same amount of traffic
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There is no difference if (a) the capping is enforced and they spread out their downloading. (b) all the 1meg users rape their connection 24/7
What you just said is flawed in many ways eg. you can have a cap in place but if everyone uses their bandwidth at the same time you still need to provision capacity to handle the load, and of course if their is a higher burst speed then the provisioning needs to be at a higher level to handle it. Personally I find the saturated linx port issue not to be the blame of the leechers but rather then isp not upgrading to keep up with customer growth, if a isp has pipes that are filling up they have 3 options, they can either upgrade, implement limits on their users (caps) or just leave it. NTL have done a cross of caps and just leaving it since they are not really enforcing it properly and telewest have just left it. But fact is if you have a growing customer base you have to increase your capacity to go with it, blaming it solely on heavy users is an easy way out, and hoping the traffic flow will drop with a customer base thats growing is not going to happen.