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Originally Posted by rdhw
If you have interposed a router between your PC and the cable modem, then you will no longer be able to monitor the Ambit 200, unless you add a secondary IP address in the 192.168.100.xxx subnet to the WAN port of the router. Very few routers targeted at the domestic market can do this.
On the other hand, if you have interposed a router between the family's PCs and the cable modem, you don't need to monitor the cable modem any more: you can monitor the router itself instead (and get separate figures for each member of the family!). You just need a router which supports monitoring by SNMP, or which there are many to choose from.
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So I have to BIN my perfectly reliable domestic router that has it seems stopped any hack attempts against my household since its purchase and 2 years ago abuse@ntl recommended a firewall or better a nat router to protect me as i had been hacked and reported by someone as scanning a port. but as it probably is not SNMP compatable its to go, because you said so, a router which I have gained almost complete trust in.
1: The cap is ridiculous when the isp is promoting ics of allsorts including wireless.
2: The same RIDICULOUS cap applies accross all levels of service
3: Main problem is oversubscribed ubrs and upstreams where NTL turned around from a multi million defecit to a huge multi million profit in the last twelve months.
4: International friends of mine are pinging major uk sites hosted by ntl and all too often getting appaling results, and this is because the minority of uk ntl domestic user are hammering the service ?
5: IF ntl wish to enforce a nazi regime cap with vigour spend your profit on server side monitoring that we the customers have access to
then you can compare us to the nazi government regime of government owned isp's in AU, who I hasten to add are raising and removing the caps from many packages. You wont do this because you know your customer base will drop below 1 million qucker than it got there
A usage limit is fair when that usage limit is set fairly, and inline with current internet content and teared with the different levels of service.
150k users dont need a 1GB cap that will almost max them
600k users on a multi box household can easily push a couple of gig daily, tho it would probably average out less.
1Meg users should of course have the highest allowance
there are many 150k users who will just simply not upgrade their connection
thats loss to ntl.
and further you can subscribe to a extra service of rich multimedia content which ntl act as agents for and promote that will easily put you in the class of ""NTL ABUSER CUZ I USE THE SERVICE IM PAYING FOR"".
this is of course real business sense isnt it
SPEND SOME OF THAT PROFIT ON MORE UBRS A PROPER MONITORING SERVICE FAIR CAPS and you may just be the first isp to get 2 million subscribers.
Money leads to money when re-invested properly, greed just leeds to poverty
Or keep up with the current plan send a customer an abusive letter enforcing something thats not monitorable, your customers will leave in droves as the word spreads. There are many adsl packages offering cap free 2mbit services and more @ 1mbit
On top of this with all the holes in windows etc its real easy to be hacked and turned into a server unless you have respectable computer literacy that is a further risk.