NTL "unlimited 10mb"

jamoor · 3 Jun 2006 at 13:37

http://www.ntlworld.com/toolsservices/tiermigration/

What's the catch on the 10mb service?

james.miller · 3 Jun 2006 at 13:38

there isnt one. its now unlimited.

jamoor · 3 Jun 2006 at 13:46

james.miller said:
there isnt one. its now unlimited.

so I can download 2TB a month and no one will bat an eyelid?

afraser2k · 3 Jun 2006 at 13:53

Might interest the BPI.

Note that it's "up to" 10Mb, I rarely got over 7Mb when downloading so I'm back on the 2Mb now that the upgrades are coming through.

tolien · 3 Jun 2006 at 14:08

jamoor said:
so I can download 2TB a month and no one will bat an eyelid?

Would expect they would, or your ability to do 2TB a month would be "limited".

Rich · 3 Jun 2006 at 16:20

As long as people dont take the michael too much im sure it will be fine. I stuck within the 75 gig a month religiously when they enforced it. Now ill have a bit more fun though

Adnams Drinker · 4 Jun 2006 at 08:38

I had heard that this was coming, but the engineer never mentioned it when he installed our NTL 250 modem yesterday morning ... it's now official then?

ScoobyDoo · 4 Jun 2006 at 08:59

Yeah its offical from the 1st June, 10mb is now unlimited as is 4mb when 2mb get upgraded for free during the month

Andyt_uk · 4 Jun 2006 at 11:35

i believe there going to start traffic shaping a lot more now anyways. I'm on their 10meg and its awful tbh. Loss and poor speeds. Can only get worse really with making it unlimited.

LoadsaMoney · 4 Jun 2006 at 12:14

jamoor said:
so I can download 2TB a month and no one will bat an eyelid?

Well you won't as you'll be blind watching all that pron.

.Griff. · 4 Jun 2006 at 12:40

jamoor said:
so I can download 2TB a month and no one will bat an eyelid?

Is it possible to download 2TB in a month on a 10mbps connection?

Al Vallario · 4 Jun 2006 at 13:29

WWS|Griff said:
Is it possible to download 2TB in a month on a 10mbps connection?

Assuming you get the full 10Mbps, you weren't limited on the server end and you hammered the connection 24/7 (which technically isn't possible), in theory you would be able to get 3.2TB. I'd say 2TB is feasible, but as others have said, I think NTL would find some clause in the T&C's (do they have a Fair Use Policy?) and get rid of you sharpish if you tried to transfer that much

mwtb · 4 Jun 2006 at 14:45

If you're constantly filling your bandwidth up and down then they can legitimately claim that you are adversely affecting service to other users. I expect them to clamp down on the very heavy P2P users, because upstream causes more trouble than down. I doubt they'll hassle people who have a habit of downloading gigs of "Linux ISOs" a day from usenet,for example, as they won't really stand out in the crowd of problem users.

FWIW, I've been with NTL for 6 years now, always top-tier and regularly breaking the limits (but not massively). I've never been contacted and when you see stats from ISPs showing how their usage patterns break down, it's obvious why -- the problem guys are stuffing their pipes 24/7, everyone else is nowhere near.