On Friday 14 Feb 2003 8:06 am, Ian Douglas wrote: [...] I've snipped out the body detailing the confused variety of 'limits' that have been pulished over the past few days.
They seem to be making it up as they go along now, desperately trying to recover from a PR disaster caused by their heavy-handedness.
Looking at this in practical terms it seems to me to be saying that if I want to download a new multi-CD Linux distro release (such as Mandrake) I *WILL* be classified as a "Persistent Offender" and be cut off if I download more than one CDs ISO per day (two ISOs per day would exceed my daily limit) now turning a distro upgrade into a very drawn out, week long, download job.
I'm going to continue playing devil's advocate here - a mandrake distro is three CDs. d/load 2, wait for a day then d/load the third. 4days maximum instead of three. Or, if you have the bandwidth, download 2 in the first day, wait a day, download the third - 3 days instead of two. Or wait half a day, begin the d/l which will be spread cross over two 24 hour segements ie.e haldf a Gig on dat 2, halg a gig in day 3.
Thankfully I only subscribe to their slowest service so one ISO per day is all I can manage anyway, however this must surely really hit hard those of you on the list who are shelling out loads of dosh for a higher speed service and are used to downloading a complete multi-ISO distro in a day.
At a cost of a few pence a day - what does a pound buy these days anyway - to ntl it is a bargain. If you're in a real hurry get them from linuxemporium by return of post - faster than d/loading but costs a few pounds more.
But - referring back to Steve Fosdick's point in an earlier message - it really is time that companies stopped making misleading claims about internet access just to fool the punters. Hopefully the NTL debacle will lead to some clarification in future.
Syd