Comments on: BT Cracks Down on ‘Heavy Downloaders’

By: thepuzzler

thepuzzler — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I’m glad I switched to telewest broadband. They just doubled the speed for free from 2meg to 4 meg yesterday and they have no downlaod quotas.

I used to go through the 30 gig limit in about a week anyways with BT. They just want everyone to use it for web browsing and email. Ha!

By: teto

teto — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Bandwidth limits is NOT the way to go. Use load balancing and charge them per bit passed. Please. Cutting someone off after a month is much crueler than just choking their bandwidth continuously.

Plus what did mister big wig BT representative say about people who are “pretty much” uploading all day? You want to punish benevolent contributing uploaders just as much as nasty non-hygenic leechers? If BT (and every company) would just set it so your maximum upload and download rate are the same then that would solve their problem right there. Give you a pipe based on what you pay and let you decide what data you want to send out or draw in. 200K/s download? No problem you pay for that! 100K/s upload? Great! You can only download at 100K/s then though. 20K/s upload? That leaves you with 160K/s free to download! Nobody cuts a loss nobody’s getting screwed over and everybody walks home smiling right?

ATTENTION USER. YOU HAVE EXCEEDED THE SECRET MONTHLY BANDWIDTH LIMIT WE SET BECAUSE WE CHARGED LESS TO FOOL YOU INTO PURCHASING OUR SERVICE. YOU WILL NOW BE CHARGED A $50 SURCHARGE FOR EVERY BIT YOU PASS ABOVE THE LIMIT DESCRIBED IN SECTION 3 SUBPARAGRAPH A ARTICLE 4.2.11 OF YOUR END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT WE ADDED LAST WEEK WITHOUT NOTIFYING YOU.

By: teto

teto — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

EDIT: my math sucks

By: kokanezub

kokanezub — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

instead of limiting b/w just the more they use decrees their speed

By: Vampmon

Vampmon — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

That’s what NTL do they have 1MB + 2MB unlimited but their 10MB service has a 75GB “cap” – it isn’t strict but if you go abit over the top lets say 500GB they put your speed down to 512K for the rest of that month then back up to 10MB the next month which is something BT should do.