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Re: Heavy User Sin Bins Confirmed?
Yeah i was reading about that on the register, i have mixed feelings about it.
But i am biased right now, Lincoln is having some speed issues at the moment and i cant help but think its because of the excessive advertisment in this area, the slow downs only start occuring during peak times which is leading me to believe that the network is overstretched and overworked.
While a part of me is thinking yeah it would be good to limit those users who are excessive in thier broadband usage, another part of me is saying NTL stated to every single customer that they can have a broadband speed suited to thier needs, which is not the case.
Now we hear of this where NTL are planning or are already active in limitiing certain users regardless of what package they are subscribed too, not to mention the pinicle of NTLs sucess is based on the 'unlimited' usage of all thier customers.
It will be interesting to see what happens through trading standards when people realise that thier advertised and unlimited service becomes limited.
I suppose the best and most resonable solution would be for NTL to increase thier network capacity by spending some of thier profits on network infrastrusture to up thier capacity, not try and think of ways to change the rules so they can have more customers and yet provide the same collective bandwidth.
Yet with Xbillion debts i can see why they would choose this over actually spending money.
With this in mind it does raise a question: Whats to stop NTL abusing this by actively increasing the 'excessive use' policy to include moderatly active users (eg gamers)? In fact whats to stop them doing this to all customers? its not like we check our connection speeds daily and a drop of 100k, even on a 1mb line, isnt a noticable difference.
Just my thoughts.
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