BT Broadband also mentions a 1Gb limit in the smallprint, I find today, but also mentions that it is a guideline.
"The BT Broadband service is designed to allow users the capability of downloading up to about 1Gb of data per day [...] However, to preserve download speeds for a majority of customers, BT may temporarily suspend the use of BT Broadband service if the Customer uses the service in a way that BT thinks could cause detrimental performance of the service, provided to you or any other customer."
Indeed, at the speeds I was managing to get when I had ntl, four hours solid would get about 1Gb. There were days when I did exceed this - left it running overnight and during the day downloading TV. Most Buffy episodes were about 400-450Mb, although some were ~800Mb. If I was downloading Buffy, Angel and Firefly, SVCDs, and possibly more than one episode of each and maybe some cartoons, I could easily have the connection running full whack for a whole day. That's 6Gb. But that wouldn't happen more than once a week at the very worst, and more likely not that much that often. I could have worked around the cap on the days I needed to get that much.
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Date: February 11th, 2003 04:58 am (UTC)From:"The BT Broadband service is designed to allow users the capability of downloading up to about 1Gb of data per day [...] However, to preserve download speeds for a majority of customers, BT may temporarily suspend the use of BT Broadband service if the Customer uses the service in a way that BT thinks could cause detrimental performance of the service, provided to you or any other customer."
Indeed, at the speeds I was managing to get when I had ntl, four hours solid would get about 1Gb. There were days when I did exceed this - left it running overnight and during the day downloading TV. Most Buffy episodes were about 400-450Mb, although some were ~800Mb. If I was downloading Buffy, Angel and Firefly, SVCDs, and possibly more than one episode of each and maybe some cartoons, I could easily have the connection running full whack for a whole day. That's 6Gb. But that wouldn't happen more than once a week at the very worst, and more likely not that much that often. I could have worked around the cap on the days I needed to get that much.