*ALL* ntl Cap Discussion (Part 3)

[PC_Arcade]

Originally Posted by rogermevans

does any one in this company know what any one else is doing lol

It would seem not. I cancelled NTL BB last month and I had the same letter waiting for me when I got home.

The letter was dated the 10th DESPITE the fact that I had my modem disconnected on the 5th.

[Bob]

Interesting article on the homepage: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...roadband-users

[mcmanic]

when you get downgraded can someone try the automatic signup on NTL homepage for 3meg or will it be blocked, if not then can see everyone just resigning up for 3meg

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by mcmanic

when you get downgraded can someone try the automatic signup on NTL homepage for 3meg or will it be blocked, if not then can see everyone just resigning up for 3meg

At a guess I would say that your account will be frozen so that it cannot be changed in that way.

[Safeman]

Originally Posted by Bob

Interesting article on the homepage: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...roadband-users

thats mad m8 thats taking the pish 500GB a month someone nearly download no wonder there are doing this i support this all the way some people are just to greedy wot the hell was he downloading

[dibbler]

Will they give me a rebate on my broadband. I cancelled last month after the first letter. Got phoned by a new dept. and offered free 2meg broadband and tv and phone for 6 months. Ive taken the tv and broadband. Changed to BT so that when they do decide to cut my speed i have a couple of options.
1 Keep my 512k unlimited. Will just have to leave connection on all day as against some of the day.
2. Keep my NTL connection for the rest of the 6 months (then cancel), but subscribe to a new supplier and run 2 connections!! Still using my NTL connection 24/7.
If the service is going to be £17.99 I should be due even more money back as I was told 2meg free for 6 months.. not 512k

On my first TV bill there was a £300+ credit.. so looks like they at least got the bill right.

[mcmanic]

Originally Posted by Safeman

thats mad m8 thats taking the pish 500GB a month someone nearly download no wonder there are doing this i support this all the way some people are just to greedy wot the hell was he downloading

yeah but they forgot to mention the poor sod who only downloaded 56gigs in earlier post, so NTL have to let people know what they mean by "if you go over by a little bit it'll be fine", do they mean 1gig over, 5gig? its all to wishy washy, certainly it seems not 26gigs which really isn't alot and well within their new 75gig for 10meg when due out so why penalize him now!!

[rogerdraig]

if any one finds a sign up page for 512 sevice give me a bell

lol just re looking at my letter from them 1meg with 1gig limit or 300k 30gig limit hmm but if i had downloaded 500gig i would get 512 unlimited

i am at a loss though i am anti cap how do they expect any one to feel that they are trying to provide a good sevice when they dont offer those who stay inside the TOS the same deal first

[Chrysalis]

interesting but as others have pointed out, why have ntl thrown away revenue by charging 17.99.

[Rob2005]

...good point.

Having read this forum for a while, I always found the discussions about caps laugable in the sense that I couldn't believe some people could actually download so much. Then I discovered newsgroups....All the latest American telly at the touch of a button. After 1 month of it, I'm hooked and I can see why others are too. Once you've got used to DIY VOD, you can never go back. Its the future, very much now.

As I have now gone over the usage allowance myself, I'm on 3MB broaband, this thread is all the more important.

I had a look at my old Bell Cablemedia/Cable & Wireless telephone bills yesterday, to see how much I used to spend on internet over the old dial up system which of course went over the telephone line. My basic bill just for telephone charges for the internet were in excess of £150 per month for a 33/56k service. Now I'm paying under £40 for 3MB broadband, "soon" to be 10MB.

I am sure there are some people out there who would be willing to pay more for their internet. So why can't ntl offer us a unlimited, no cap service now and charge us for it?. We're all aware of the ntl "coming soon", my tv service still has the lurid pink software, the upgrade has been "coming soon" for months...

I bet I can't be the only one who used to get these hefty telephone bills and would be quite happy for ntl to relieve me of some more cash for a heavy usage service. I would be happy to pay £60 for a non-capped service, and wouldn't complain if the charges were higher, although probably wouldn't spend over £100 now. What do others think? What would you be prepared to pay if ntl did offer a high speed, non cap service right now?

[Robbie]

My data transfer totals over the past 3 months seem ridicuously low compared to some of the useage figures quoted in this thread! I am however only on 1MB speed, which is the 3GB per month cap. Since I started monitoring my useage using netmeter back in July my useage (downloads and uploads) has always exceeded the 3GB monthly limit:

AUG: 3.7GB
SEP: 3.4GB
so far this month I've used 1.1GB, which puts me on course for about 3GB.

Does anyone know if I'm likely to get a letter? I was under the impression that anyone exceeding the limit by even the smallest amount would be written to, but I've received nothing so far and other people I know who are also on 3GB limits have received nothing either, even though at least 2 of them regularly well exceed 3GB (one, I imagine, by a considerable amount).

Should I try to cut back my useage even more or am I OK?

[maverick]

I would not worry about getting a letter with your usage of just over 3gb.

NTL are only interested in users going way over the top.

[Robbie]

Thanks!

[jrhnewark]

That article was pretty interesting, as well as a little reassuring. I may hit 30 - 40GB on the 1Mbps service this month, so I'll probably have no 'action' taken against me.

Even if they did say "500kbps - unlimited", I wouldn't be too bothered. So long as the upstream doesn't go down any further - that'd just be impossible to do anything with.

[Chrysalis]

I suspect right now NTL for whatever reason are not willing to allow above 150gig (512kbit) so wont offer a higher speed unmetered package, I would expect inline with when 10mbit is rolled out the unmetered speeds will be raised, to somewhere between 1mbit and 3mbit. I am not sure if unmetered 5mbit will be rolled out now that is very ambitious, someone unchecked on a 5mbit unmetered package can potentially grab 1.6TB data in a month.