[Gllug] On a Fasthost adv.

[Ryan Cartwright]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:37 +0000, Progga wrote:
>> Fasthost is mentioning UNLIMITED bandwidth here:
>>
>> http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/dedicatedservers/
>>
>> Is it really possible with decent speed ?
> 
> It's on a 10Mb connection. How many other servers are sharing that I
> wonder?
> 
> Nobody offers unlimited anything in reality. There is always a measure
> somewhere - either in the charging or the provisioning so as to ensure
> the service doesn't cause losses.

Indeed - hence a few public campaigns (the Gadget show and PC Plus
magazine spring to mind) I have seen recently to prevent the (mis)use of
the term in advertising.

-- 
Ryan Cartwright
http://www.cafamily.org.uk/oss
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