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Chrysalis · 03-02-2006, 21:30

capping doesnt garantuee improvements tho, eg. a isp could cap and simply buy less bandwidth because they cap and leave saturation in place, in that case the capping just provides extra profits. A good isp would provide enough bandwidth to avoid problems and use any caps to ensure it stays that way, ntl's capping so far has just served to annoy people since because they didnt enforce it they have people raping their cable just the same as telewest and have saturation although according to ignition its on a lesser scale.

I think capping does need to be in place but it should be peak time only or greatly reduced at peak time and when exceeded reduce speeds to a small but useable level say 256/64 kbit, the key making upload really low.

03-02-2006, 21:30	#27
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,050	Re: BlueYonder Capping capping doesnt garantuee improvements tho, eg. a isp could cap and simply buy less bandwidth because they cap and leave saturation in place, in that case the capping just provides extra profits. A good isp would provide enough bandwidth to avoid problems and use any caps to ensure it stays that way, ntl's capping so far has just served to annoy people since because they didnt enforce it they have people raping their cable just the same as telewest and have saturation although according to ignition its on a lesser scale. I think capping does need to be in place but it should be peak time only or greatly reduced at peak time and when exceeded reduce speeds to a small but useable level say 256/64 kbit, the key making upload really low.