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?"

Comments

Letter to subscribers.

[mikeophile]

Encrypted VPN traffic is hard for us to read.

Plus we're only able to log 1GB/day or less of your traffic.

So don't use VPN's and don't use more than a gig/day of traffic.

Thank you.

NTL World Total Information Awareness Division

Re:No VPN service?

[Anonymous Coward]

Run EVERYTHING on port 80.

Want to block it now :D

Re:Pop-ups

[mark-t]

So, does this mean that people can sue companies that advertise using pop-ups for using their limited bandwidth without permission?

I like it!!!

Any lawyers around?

Re:this is nothing

[Xtifr]

Secondly, there is no way a person could legally download more than 1 gig in a day.

You obviously aren't running Debian unstable and getting daily updates of Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, and OpenOffice. :)

What the hell is the problem with 1GB?

[cranos]

When I was a lad we had to use 300 baud, and sleep in cardboard box on tip.

On a related note....

[xA40D]

My doctor has just told me I need at leas 8 hours of sleep a night. This is totally unfair. What use is existance if you can only use it for two-thirds of the time.

This is not what I paid for, and I will be writing to my MP. Just because Good is an omnipitent entity it does not give him the right to impose such limits on me. ;-j

Yeah...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well at least they haven't limited the uplNO CARRIER