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I really really dont see the point of a 20mb connection with a 20GB limit. Its like having a Bugatti Vayron and be limited to 60Mph.
I have a 1mbps connection with literally unlimited bandwidth and i am happy.
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Posted: 2009-03-25 14:37:28
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I have a 10mb connection, but my 700mb cap kicks in at 7pm, and ends at midnight.
To be fair, though, it does stop others hogging all the bandwidth. We would be pretty screwed without.
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Posted: 2009-03-25 18:58:40
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Why you all think you would be screwed or things would be worse without these caps? Look at other countries, they have no caps and no problems, Sweden, Norway have 100mbit as the norm in homes and no problems at all. Back in Holland its the same, you're led to believe the internet will grind to halt when you get what you pay for, I pity that in a way. If they ISPs here can't keep their networks properly working then that is their fault, they should invest in it. Then again seeing most of the phone copper is above ground, there's still a long way to go here.
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Posted: 2009-03-25 23:30:54
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No, seriously, cable broadband speeds fluctuate like crazy.
I can be getting 10mb downstream, and suddenly find it dropping to 3mb a few seconds later.
As far as I am aware, entire areas are connected to servers via one bunch of optic fibres. If everyone is downloading at once, what's going to happen?
Everyone's connections will slow down. It works. And, if you hit the cap, all that happens is that your speed is throttled until midnight, after which everything returns to as it was.
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Posted: 2009-03-25 23:47:52
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But that is not your fault. I used to have cable back home in Holland. If there were speed fluctuations due to high demand, they would upgrade the local switch and add more capacity. Not cap their customers. If they do not invest and upgrade their networks properly people will (hopefully) jump shit when other alternatives come available. Several EU countries already rolling out high speed mobile networks (25mbit), wimax and others. Britain along with Belgium are lagging behind when it comes to ADSL/Cable networks. Its sad to see a city like London is still so outdated with a lot of things. Water pipes break every week causing huge delays in traffic, the tubes are still from the 70's, copper wires run above ground and are split in every street on the big poles. The last thing is definitely bad for ADSL2, the copper needs to be under ground so it gets less noise and gives better line quality. But I guess it is too late for that, because it would mean streets have to be dug up. In countries like Sweden, Norway and Holland we dug op all the streets years ago and laid fibre, copper and other cables. Most of those cables are so called "dark" (not in use yet) it was costly at the time but there is no need to open up the streets again in a long time. Here we need streets dug up and houses rewired. Sad but true.
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Posted: 2009-03-25 23:56:22
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Adding more capacity would mean more fibres, meaning our already dug, covered and recently smoothly resurfaced roads would need to be dug up again.
I'm prepared to live with a 700mb cap, than to have the main road here (which over the past few years has become a major route) dug up again, with traffic queuing for miles 50m away from my house.
Anyway, water pipes break because they're iron, and probably 100 years old.
New plastic piping is being laid.
The Tube was bored in during the industrial revolution and is getting 150 years old.
Anyway, back to point 1, if they did lay new fibre, they'd charge us £10 more a month and blame the recession. It's good as it is.
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Posted: 2009-03-26 18:37:35
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I'm than happy with Be* been on them for just under a year and i've yet to be capped, written to regarding my use (those of you that know me, know I use it a lot!)
Uptime: 5 days, 1:34:00
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [GB/GB]: 65.41 / 18.89
Then again being owned by O2 seems to help as they were crowned recently as the best ISP, I'm all for faster speeds (gutted I moved house as my old house had fibre installed today with 100mb at the front door) but restricting said speeds is silly, if you haven't got the hardware in place to support the speeds 24/7 you shouldn't be selling it...
Is a test I've just done, router says I'm getting 19mb down and 2mb up, but hey ho.
150mb is awesome if they can support it all the time, as someone said it's like having a Veyron and only being able to run at 20mph twixt the hours of 1900 and 0000.
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Posted: 2009-03-26 21:53:43
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Just got this:
Out of 10mb - not bad for 9pm.
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Posted: 2009-03-26 22:00:27
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shocking upload though...
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Posted: 2009-03-26 22:02:22
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It would be VERY bad planning if they dug the roads to put only a few fibres and then put it all back together. Then again being in Britain for a few years nothing surprises me much any more. For a country claiming to invent everything and being at forefront of everything some stuff is still stuck in the 16th century
Especially parts of London.
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Posted: 2009-03-26 22:15:54
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