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The tech forums were buzzing last night. News emerged that NTL are going to upgrade all users to 10MB lines.

it is believed...

Bandwidth caps
set to increase, to a max' of 75gig a month (although on a 10mb line, you could d/l that in a day!).

when?
most users by spring 2006, and the rest by summer 2006

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however, other ISP's like 'be' will be rolling out 24MB for <£30 soon, with no 'strict' caps. Most of the tech heads are decidedly disgusted that NTL wants to increase speeds, yet place caps which make the new services effectively meaningless.

Its like saying you can have a new Porsche..it can go 200mph...but you can only use it for 2mins a day.

Calrissian: 2MB line

Ah, the cynic in me just thinks faster broadband just gives hackers faster access to my hard drive

I’m sick of port scanning from china and the need I feel to encrypt every file on my PC or just get important files on CD roms only

Anyway I am on a 1meg connection, I don’t do music or movie downloads, my online games run at 500k and I never get anywhere near my cap why do I need the additional speed

Plus every time NTL does anything with my connection it never works properly for the next six months

An interesting fact ,NTL have no bandwidth capping at present.
How do I know ?
I have 2M connection and in the last month I've been averaging 7GB a day while collect reality TV and old Dr Who Stories.
I've been waiting for the connection to stop but it never happens.
Now if you do the math it's something like 230GB !
I don't know if it makes any difference but as stated in a previous thread NTL didn't do the upgrade automatically from 750K to 2M but I did it manually from their offical upgrade site.
I only know the download figures as Newsleecher keeps count and currently states 237GB and that's just over a month as I've just paid the second monthes subscription to Newshosting.com for the Unlimited Newsgroup access.

10M sounds great .

You try and download 250GB when you get a 10mb capped service, and you'll find around £120 added to your monthly bill !
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There is a 'soft cap' at present, few people get warned since the network has a lot of spare capacity at present.

Cal: 2MB

I agree, a 75GB cap for a 10Mbit connection is extremely low, and it seems like NTL are trying to make a load of money of this. This is the trend with ISP's now, they bring out these fast connections, and then they stick a low cap on them. Why?? So we will have to pay for the extra load of GB to make up the limit that we should be getting. I'll give them this, they aren't daft, infact if anything, they are very greedy indeed. I'm on a 2Mbit connection, and my ISP took the cap from 30GB (which wasn't tooooooooo bad), right down to 30GB. Now this was ridiculous for a 2Mbit connection, but they soon pushed the cap straight back up to 30GB again, someone must have complained, good on them. The way i see it is this, we are paying for our broadband connection, and that's just the way it should stay. The connections shouldn't be capped at all, we should be able to download as much as we want throughout the month. I think AOL let you do this, i have seen this on their advertisement's. But getting back to the first part of this post, 75GB is like a 15GB or maybe a little more less cap for a 2Mbit connection. It's nearly half the bloody thing, seems like someone's getting a bit greedy to me. The ISP's that i know of with a cap are, Virgin, BT yahoo, Wanadoo, Tiscali (15GB). There's probably more out there, but these are the one's that i can think of right now. To me this isn't freedom, this is just trying to make that extra £6 out of you. I'm surprised at virgin doing this, i thought they might have left their's uncapped, but it seems like they have gotten greedy as well.