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[tinyjo]

Wow - NTL sure do suck. How will we manage to download Buffy episodes now?

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[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm on Nildram. I'll copy the episodes onto a cd for you if you get stuck.

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. I think I'm going to go for a 2Mb ZenADSL line instead :)

No problem

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

I'm not with ntl; anymore, so I don't care. BT ADSL should be fine, and should be working as of tomorrow. So, I'll get to downloading the last couple of episodes.

Re: No problem

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

Where did you see that £200 Wireless ADSL modem?? I can only find a press release from last year when one was £350.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

I do like the way that it's the excessive users fault for using the service advertised, and not their fault for being crap at all. (Though hawkida says that a Buffy episode is well within the limits they've set.)

Moral question: Is it okay to be annoyed at this whilst at the same time being in favour of limiting the number of daily LJ posts?

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

Clarification/panic from NTL

Re: No problem

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the Vigor2600We ?
http://www.seg.co.uk/products/a_vigor2600.html

It's £199 + VAT from seg.co.uk. I have one. It's lovely.

Re: No problem

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! With any luck you live within thirty feet of me.

Re: No problem

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

but...

[blufive.livejournal.com]

A quick back-of-envelope calculation tells me that to hit that limit, I'd have to max out my connection for four hours solid. In more practical terms, it's 1.5 CD-Rs of data a day.

I don't think it's going to bother me much.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

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.