BT to limit broadband transfer?

[Super Stu]

Yes, but said users don't have anything to worry about with the 15gig cap, only the torrent users. See? Use it, pay for it. Perhaps you'd be surprised to hear telco-advanced countries like Holland imploy similar systems already.

I'd place a large bet that other ISPs are closely watching to see if they can get away with it, like they did with limited hours dialup.

I don't particularly want to play devil's advocate here, but broadband is indeed sold on media rich content, but they didn't say how much, did they?

edit - afterthought: if people aren't caining downloads all day long, what was it that worried NTL enough to wheel out that 1gig daily cap threat? That didn't half piss off a lot of people, so one assumes it wasn't something they pondered lightly.

[Mr Ono]

I use Bittorrent to mainly drag TV shows off - not films or games.

For instance, Survivor Amazon was 5.1 gigs so one third of my "allowance" has already gone in a few days :/

[Matt Horne]

blueyonder all the way.. they don't seem to mind any amount of dl'ing

[DjSatansfury]

The large majority of ISP's dont. Its a question of if they'll follow suit to boost their profits, or keep things the same, and offer services to those unhappy Wanadoo/BT customers

[demon9k]

I don't particularly want to play devil's advocate here, but broadband is indeed sold on media rich content, but they didn't say how much, did they?

I think what they said to me was always on broadband internet, now is it always on if they cap me at 1Gb a day? I wouldn't say so.

Also I can download 1Gb of just game movies on IGN and gametrailers in no time. I just downloaded a 357mb trailer of halo 2 and that took hardly any time.

AOL give unlimited internet so how can they do it and no body else?

[Daniel]

Yes, but said users don't have anything to worry about with the 15gig cap, only the torrent users. See? Use it, pay for it...I'd place a large bet that other ISPs are closely watching to see if they can get away with it, like they did with limited hours dialup...I don't particularly want to play devil's advocate here, but broadband is indeed sold on media rich content, but they didn't say how much, did they?

I'm not automatically against a use it, pay for it policy - but broadband was never sold as such. It was marketed as the internet holy land where users could download rich content on a flat rate, even to the point of isps distancing themselves from the legality of their subscribers dodgy downloads. For them to now impose limits and suggest that heavy users are ruining it for the rest - well, i don't buy it. Not when isps are offering 1mb lines and no cap. I see it as a cynical ploy to charge more for less, and to hopefully re-educate the public in the profitable ways of pay-as-you-go surfing with a slow drip of chargeable features.

Remember this is the company that dragged its ass as much as humanly possible when oftel forced it to free up local exchanges.

[Roost]

My upgrade has been completed on time today

[wod]

bugger mines for 21/7/04. how is it , do you notice a difference in speed ?

[Roost]

Not really on general browsing as unless your downloading then it's pretty instant anyway on most pages, 112kbps downloads ain't half bad though.

[The Space Cowboy]

wtf you gotta wait to get the upgrade for?

When i upped my 600 to 1meg i went to ntl webby got asked if i wanted to go to 128k stay at 600 or go to 1meg, ticked it and pressed continue, modem reset and 10 secs later that was it done ;p

btw ive used 1.8gig in a 11 days ;p 30 gig a month? put pc off and go get laid or summit. ;p

Tho i do agree it is ****e you paying for 512/1024k a second every second not for it to sit idle doing **** all.

lol @ poor wee nips ;p

[VoyagerFX]

Roost - 112kbps downloads ain't half bad though.

Sorry to go off topic here but I have been wondering for those like me who are on the BT Yahoo (512) service - do you find the download speeds extremely slow?.

If the 1mb upgrade could offer 112kbps i would change. It could be a problem with my setup why they are slow or is it just because BT are the worst supplier around

[Bredrin]

Sorry to go off topic here but I have been wondering for those like me who are on the BT Yahoo (512) service - do you find the download speeds extremely slow?.

If the 1mb upgrade could offer 112kbps i would change. It could be a problem with my setup why they are slow or is it just because BT are the worst supplier around

I'm with BT, don't have a problem with download speeds at all. Always get great speeds using BitTorrent.

[wod]

i get great speeds now after replacing that frog modem thing aload of crap it was much better on router connection

[Roost]

On BT 512 i got around 55-65k a sec.

It maxed at 115k on 1mb today.

[GordonJ]

Still nothing past that first email, guess it's not looking good for me