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Robert Hart wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 16:21 +0000, Graeme Fowler wrote:
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<pre wrap="">which over a day equates to approximately 99 kilobits/sec.
Not very much as a sustained rate, granted, but then [and I am not assuming
legal or moral precedent here] if people will insist on continually
downloading
things which are copyright "someone else", and that "someone else" has the
capacity, finances and time to wield an ugly legal stick in the
direction of UK
ISPs to stop these downloads taking place then it's in the operator's
interests
to discourage their users from doing so.
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cut it out. you can easily exceed 3Gb a month doing a daily apt-get
upgrade for debian unstable.
I'm sure even a non-geek users could easily exceed it with
video-messenging, online gaming, large e-mail attachments, BBC audio on
demand - all of which are entirely legal.
It's only 15 minutes a day flat out.
Then again it's not exactly much extra for the 1Gig a day limit.
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The 300k package thats now 1Meg is the starter package, if you want to
download more, pay more or change provider. If you went for the upgrade
with out reading the T&C, don't slate NTL for it. How long ago is
it that 3gig of downloadable data would of been unthinkable?<br>
There has to be some responsibility on the part of the users, I agree
strongly with Graeme
on this point. Try and use your service and see what happens, the 1gig
a day limit has been in place for quite some time now and has not had
an impact on my usage when ftp installing linux.<br>
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The forums seen to indicate that the cap will be a 'soft' cap ie not
enforced unless there is clear and consistent abuse of the limits - so
don't get to hot under the collar about it just now. It is the 5% of
consistent bandwidth hogs that this is aimed at. Also it seems to
monitor bandwidth usage, not just web site traffic.<br>
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BT have started 8Meg trials and will roll out across the UK during the
next 18months. With the competition increasing between xDSL and NTL /
Telewest, the caps will drop by the wayside as it becomes a feature in
the consumers choice.<br>
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Cheers, Brian<br>
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