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UK ISP Imposes Download Limits
Richard_at_work writes "The BBC news site is reporting that NTL have announced it will be imposing 1GB download limits per day for its users. As you can guess, reactions have not been mild :) One thing to note, NTL has said that they will only be persuing persistent offenders, so i guess they understand you cant track your usage to the byte! Also with NTL, they appear to ban the usage of VPNs, citing that their service is for resedential use only. Does this mean I can't email work now?"
you're an idiot.
I'm with ntl:home also, paying £25pcm for their 600/128 service. I was AWARE when I signed up that I had a contention ratio of over 30:1, that I WASN'T allowed to run a commercial server or have a fixed IP and that was the reason why my 600/128 connection was £25pcm rather than the £500+ that we pay for our 2048/2048 fixed IP E1 at work. You want guaranteed 1 Mbit bandwidth? Sounds like that should be around £250pcm to me at today's rates. It's greedy, unrealistic twats like you that fuck up networks the world over - the sooner you're banned the better.
That was classic intercourse!
try wasting their bandwidth (you DO realise that they have to PAY for their bandwidth, right?) and see how long they tolerate your idiotic crap.
You want guaranteed, full time bandwidth? Get an E1 like anyone else.
That was classic intercourse!
All I know is if Earthlink had the same policy I wouldn't be able to work.
I call bullshit. You cannot possibly download more than 1GB of work-related material per day. I'm waiting to be convinced otherwise.
Also, stop using your non-business account to conduct business. Your company should pay for your business line.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
"Well, cool then. Drive 'em out of business. Drive up the costs for everybody else.
It's very neighborly of you to do so."
This is exactly the attitude they want people to have. They are turning the "normal" (read light) users of the system against the heavy users of the system by portraying them as bad, wrong, evil, bandwidth-stealing evil people who "ruin it for everyone else". This is QUITE SIMPLY A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS.
graspee
That's NOT insightful, it's bullshit. Broadband cable is a CONTENDED connection and ntl:home is sold as such. Therefore, you are only GUARANTEED one thirtieeth or whatever of your max bandwidth. if you don't understand that then you're either dense or being deliberately ignorant of the contract that you signed. This isn't bait-n-switch, it's a shared connection being abused by a minority of customers - as far as I can see they're ALREADY in breach opf their terms of service and should be kicked off immediately. They're fucking up the internet for EVERYONE ELSE. Worse than spammers and DOSsers and viruses. WORSE THAN.
That was classic intercourse!
*bbbzt*
Wrong answer, thanks for playing.
If you bothered to RTFA before whinging, you woudl realise just how wrong you are.
Clue - there is no 1GB/day hard limit.
Clue 2 - usage is averaged over a month - so unless you are planing to download those ISOs *EVERY SINGLE DAY*, then you will ahve zero problems - you download them one day, exceeding 1GB that day, no problem.
Download them EVERY day exceeing 30GB+ per month - well, you do have a problem, and not just from NTL's policy!
People should not be afraid of their governments - Governments should be afraid of their people.
but it IS available 24/7 you fucking prick.
Are you really so stupid as to not understand what "a contention ratio of 30:1" actually means?
How fucking clear could they make it? Do you leave your 'phone off the hook all day too? Or just your brain?
That was classic intercourse!