i found the following quote from theregister.co.uk rather funny...
"Indeed, NTL insists that the limit has been imposed more as a guideline. It is not trying to penalise "ordinary" users. Instead, it wants to target persistent abusers of its broadband service, many of whom, its believed, are running businesses on what the cableco insists is a domestic service"
How can you abuse a 24/7 always on, unlimited connection to the internet by doing just that... using it 24/7 and unlimited - which is the complete basis of buying broadband in the first place!!
IMO, its not abuse on the connection, its purely making the most of your money. Too many companies world wide are offering faster connections to the internet for so much cheaper. I remember seeing somewhere that Japan have 12mb connections for the equivalent of £27 a month (with no download caps), so how come we have to make do with a 1mb connection for £35 a month with a cap of 1Gb a day??
But, even if current NTL customers (including myself) change ISP and go with ADSL, or move to a Telewest area (wouldnt that be nice? Blueyonder was excellent when I lived at my parents house in Liverpool)... whats to stop those ISPs from introducing a cap on their connections? Remember the 56k times? I remember WorldOnline introducing the 100 hours a month maximum limit on a former 24/7 unlimited service. Shortly after that, BT decided they would do the same (to the dismay of their customers), and then several others did the same... ejecting customers who exceeded their "reasonable usage" limit, which the ISPs failed to inform the customers of what exactly "reasonable usage" is!!
Perhaps we should all just move to Japan, enjoy 12mb and have done with it
(jeez... if only possible lol)