You are paying for a 24/7 so you should be able to download constantly. they are greedy ******* wanting you to pay a monthly charge for something you can not use.

AOL, Bulldog, Blueyonder all offer unlimited access as do a lot of other isp's.

NTL already cut their newsgroup servers to cope with the volume in traffic, seems to me instead of upgrading the servers they'd rather reduce the end users access.

Anybody host online game servers, you'll be surprised at how quickly you will hit that limit with 8-12 users online

 

I suspect the days of all you can download ISP's are numbered. As more ISP's bring in capping, then the heavy users will flock to those who don't thus causing more stress on their network. Therefore causing those ISP's to look to cap, or to charge per Gb.

It had to happen sooner or later

 

What happens when everything is being sent in via one 'pipe'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4334421.stm

There is no way for that to be effective if there is a cap in place. I agree you may be right in the short term but as soon as this technology starts to take off and become mainstream companies looking to keep up and make a profit will have to upgrade their technology to ba able to provide the service required.

 

Greedy? Not sure who else offers a 2mb connection for £25 a month. If you want unlimited then you should pay for it, not sure why I should share my connection with people downloading from torrents 24/7.

 

Quick search on google indicates most broadband isp's offer 2meg for around £25 with AOL's being unlimited for £29

NTL don't offer unlimited so how can you pay for it ?

If you don't download much then why pay for 2meg, Why would you need a fast connection simlpy for surfing.

 

Because my time is precious, so I like a fast connection.

And I do download plenty, but as and when I see something of interest, I don't have a PC running 24/7 for torrents or P2P programs.

Not sure why NTL should invest in the capability to allow some users to slow things down for all.

AOL at £29, so it's more, go ahead and use AOL then.

(personally as I don't have a BT line, that would cost me even more)

 

phoned them today and I have the old STB so new Samsung required - 5th April - b****rds! However had another thought and rang them back -
Me: "Im on 750 K and paying 24.99 - my box will do 1MB - sort out 1 MB for me pls while I wait"
NTL: "Will have to charge you 17.99 monthly to up your speed sir instead of 24.99
Me: Errr - OK!!!!

Go back on silver when the engineer comes!! Sweet! now can download at 120bytes /sec!

 

Its worth upgrading just to get the silver box they are much better than the crappy pace boxes, you can always change your internet back afterwards