On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:36:52 +0000 Syd Hancock syd@toufol.com wrote:
With all due respect, if you are using a residential account for this then you offer an excellent example of the sort of misuse and band-width/contention hogging that NTL are spotlighting.
Not at the figures he was quoting IMHO. The whole point of broadband rather than dialup is that it is higher bandwidth.
To be blunt, it is difficult to see why a personal home user would need more than 30 gigs a month unless they are downloading an awful lot of music and video files.
I think the 30Gb/month limit for a residential user is probably perfectly reasonable, though Paul does have a point when he says that this is not what the company originally promised.
I remember a even bigger fuss being made about people using BT Anytime more than BT had originally expected, some of the them to the detriment of other users, and the way BT handled it. Perhaps it is time that companies didn't promise unlimited use of a limited resource, but set sensible limits right from the start.