1GB Cap Letter!!!!

[erol]

In the post above I have credited Ianauth with quotes that should be attributed to scastle. For the sake of clarity the first 3 quotes in my post above are from Ianauth and the last 3 are from Scastle.

Applogies for this mistake.

[DVS]

Originally Posted by erol

Basically almost any app run 24/7 can consume similar bandwidth.

Newsgroups (and this is where the _real_ copyright leeching is done by those that do it best)

I personally wouldn't know what you mean with the above statement. There's plenty of legitimate NG's out there. Don't know of any off the top of my head but I'm assured they are there

[asdf]

I wouldn't say that most apps open 24/7 will consume the amount of bandwidth as p2p apps.

Video, only if constantly transmitting, which I can't imagine many people doing... VPN, again only if you're doing something on the Virtual Net.

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by ThePinkRat

Members of the jury, I refer you to Exhibit A -- respresented here in the affixed jpeg image. This is an advertising leaflet delivered to my client on February 18 of this year.

In particular, may I refer you to the third bullet point under the subhead "Why Broadband?"

Mr NTL, does it or does it not state, "...so you can use it as much as you like..."?

Thank you. I rest my case.

Thank you Mr Rat.....

Bang - Bang....

Court is ajurned... NTL you are hereby found guilty of being crap... I sentence you to listen to 600 hours of Barry Manalow records !

[Neil]

Originally Posted by stuartbe

Thank you Mr Rat.....

Bang - Bang....

Court is ajurned... NTL you are hereby found guilty of being crap... I sentence you to listen to 600 hours of Barry Manalow records !

What about 600 hours of their own hold music!? :pp

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by Neil

What about 600 hours of their own hold music!? :pp

I thought that they no longer used the death penalty in this country

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Keyser

How ironic the letter doesn't actually tell you either:

1) HOW to monitor your downloads; and
2) HOW MUCH bandwidth you have used in order to get the letter

If I got one of those letters I would want answers to both the above questions from ntl.

I agree!
I would want a detailed report of my bandwidth for the previous months I had been using it!!

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Stuartbe

Perhaps the website is suposed to be like that - to save on bandwidth perhaps

Ha ha ha

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Klaus

I would say I download around 8Gb
Klaus

Sorry to be a moaner, but I download a Maximum of 3Gigs per day, I feel that 8gigs is Excessive!!

Just my opinion tho

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Neil

What about 600 hours of their own hold music!? :pp

They could just call Customer Services for that..

[leeswin]

Originally Posted by Kits

One important must is NTL have to invest in online montoring graphs for customers to access by loggin in using their user details and password. This has to be working 24/7 so customers can always access them.

I agree with you on this whole heartly, however it appears the penny counters have enough trouble investing in the email servers sometimes! How could they manage this? do you want to give em a heart attack

also I assume the md of the company has broadband - wounder if he or any of the other directors are held to the cap????

[Mauldor]

Ahh the gold old capping argument rears it head again and see the same people agruing with the same stuff as when it was first brought out

I disagree that a "Normal" user should just check mail, browse the net and maybe d/l a few things so not slow down the serives for others - if all they wanted to do was that- hell they could achive the same thing on dial up - why pay £34.99 a month for 1mbit if thats the case?

Ive always said that the problem is not with D/L but def more with Uploading - less of the upload then the download otherwise they would have 600/256.

If they had rolled out fibre to houses somehow (not sure if this is possible like) to start with - although costing lots then surley in the long term could have passed BT ADSL ages ago - now it seems been left behind by it for some reason.

As for "abuse" - only people to loose out in my eyes is NTl at this point in time - why? Well if your lucky enough to have both ADSL and Cable - then soon as NTL say "bad Boy" then cancel - move to adsl who have no cap - there is enough adsl providors out there to move as soon as they change there service to CAPPED - upon checking not many do Capping (as in so much data per month) and the ones that do sell it as "lite" anyhow with the option to pay couple pound more for 'Uncapped' anyhow...

[IanUK]

Those of you that got the cap letter, did you modify your downloading or are you still downloading more than 1 gig a day, if so, has anyone been further contacted ?


Just curious..especially with the price increase coming for 1 meg customers..

Cheers

Ian

[Vegeta]

How strict are ntl: in enforcing the cap and sending out letters?

Originally Posted by Vegeta

How strict are ntl: in enforcing the cap and sending out letters?

Not very.