Originally posted by stoi@18 February 2003 - 18:51
OK. I dont see what all the great fuss is about here i was on the NTL 600k line till a week ago but as i have my own ftp server the upload speed was crap 128k or 15KBs so i decided to get the 1MB line which has the 256k or 30KBs upload, so its quicker to shre what files i have with others.
OK the thing is with this cap, they only send you a letter if you go over the limit 4 days out of a consecutive 14 days, then you get a letter, so what its only a letter asking you nicely not to hog all the bandwidth for other users, they arnet going to ban ppl from using there cable lines as they are in to much debt already to do that.
and what i think is that B"bloody"T have a monopoly of broadband in the uk, you can get a 2mb line in city centres with BT but the most you can get with other companies in a 1MB line. so NTL is trying to get some figure together to show the government that the need for higher connections is out there 2MB 3MB 10MB anyone, so they need to send ppl letters to show proof to the government that a lot of ppl are using the net excesively and the government caves in and allows them higher connections.
I am very happy with NTL at the minute even with this so called cap, but yesterday i downloaded nearly 2gig and i never once seen a decrease in my speeds.
Ok thats just my thoughts but i believe that if enough ppl go over the limit regularly and get letters of disaproval then it wont be long before we see very high broadband limits for the average home user. (on ntl not BT)
stoi
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