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Dunno if any of you know but NTL have introduced a 1 gigabyte limit on downloaded data per month...
Seeing as a majority of you probably don't sit there all the time downloading things, you won't be affected but for people who do, they're coming out with all the crap that they've been conned and that they are gonna sue NTL for not giving them 'unlimited' broadband like they quoted...
It's not really a month, I just wanted to worry you! It's actually a-gig-a-day!
People don't realise that they don't have an arguement against this, they can't report NTL to trading standards because it allows them to do it in the contract and it's all legal...
Online gaming too, people seem to be saying that this uses massive amounts of bandwidth and that they can't play anymore because of the limits! I've got a 128k line and not only do I get pings of about 18, if anybody can get near a gigabyte of data a day just by playing games, I'll be surprised...
Quote from some site:
"If you are on a 12 month contract
They can't hold you to contract, they have moved the goal posts!
They advertised it as "unlimited" and this is clearly a limit and an unreasonable one at that."
Basically they were saying that NTL could change their contracts, so could we by not paying!
Also, most people on their little forums seem to believe that reporting NTL to trading standards is gonna help because they have broken advertsing laws...
Funny how the person on the site has changed all of what they said yesterday after receiving many complaints telling him that he was completely wrong! Boasting that he had complained to all the authorities about how NTL broke the contract and how they were falsely advertising...
He's changed it all now after realising how much of a prat he was making out of himself!
1 gigabyte a day is an awfully high amount of data to be downloading, EVERY DAY! People say that they have to upgrade Linux which is often 1.5 gig at a time, are they trying to say that this happens every day?
Also, wouldn't your PC fill up after a while if you were downloading updates to software all the time? You can't burn the updates to a disk, maybe the download files...
I've got no problem with what they are doing, BT have already done it by limiting their service and BTGenie also limited their 'unlimited free text' service to 300 a month...
Still though, people continue to complain, it was offered as a 'residential' service when they got it and by continuously downloading, they weren't acting as it was stated in the terms and conditions and limits had to be introduced because people were abusing the service...
All 'unlimited' packages have catches, Freeola's catch in the T&C is that bandwidth is unlimited until it starts to have a dramatic effect on the speed of the server and other people's sites...
Finally, when people are told of the miseries of living in Australia and how they have crappy limits, these people start swearing and being offensive to them because the Aussies should 'stand up for themselves!'
'If people abuse the service, the service abuses them'
Seeing as a majority of you probably don't sit there all the time downloading things, you won't be affected but for people who do, they're coming out with all the crap that they've been conned and that they are gonna sue NTL for not giving them 'unlimited' broadband like they quoted...
It's not really a month, I just wanted to worry you! It's actually a-gig-a-day!
People don't realise that they don't have an arguement against this, they can't report NTL to trading standards because it allows them to do it in the contract and it's all legal...
Online gaming too, people seem to be saying that this uses massive amounts of bandwidth and that they can't play anymore because of the limits! I've got a 128k line and not only do I get pings of about 18, if anybody can get near a gigabyte of data a day just by playing games, I'll be surprised...
Quote from some site:
"If you are on a 12 month contract
They can't hold you to contract, they have moved the goal posts!
They advertised it as "unlimited" and this is clearly a limit and an unreasonable one at that."
Basically they were saying that NTL could change their contracts, so could we by not paying!
Also, most people on their little forums seem to believe that reporting NTL to trading standards is gonna help because they have broken advertsing laws...
Funny how the person on the site has changed all of what they said yesterday after receiving many complaints telling him that he was completely wrong! Boasting that he had complained to all the authorities about how NTL broke the contract and how they were falsely advertising...
He's changed it all now after realising how much of a prat he was making out of himself!
1 gigabyte a day is an awfully high amount of data to be downloading, EVERY DAY! People say that they have to upgrade Linux which is often 1.5 gig at a time, are they trying to say that this happens every day?
Also, wouldn't your PC fill up after a while if you were downloading updates to software all the time? You can't burn the updates to a disk, maybe the download files...
I've got no problem with what they are doing, BT have already done it by limiting their service and BTGenie also limited their 'unlimited free text' service to 300 a month...
Still though, people continue to complain, it was offered as a 'residential' service when they got it and by continuously downloading, they weren't acting as it was stated in the terms and conditions and limits had to be introduced because people were abusing the service...
All 'unlimited' packages have catches, Freeola's catch in the T&C is that bandwidth is unlimited until it starts to have a dramatic effect on the speed of the server and other people's sites...
Finally, when people are told of the miseries of living in Australia and how they have crappy limits, these people start swearing and being offensive to them because the Aussies should 'stand up for themselves!'
'If people abuse the service, the service abuses them'
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Dunno if any of you know but NTL have introduced a 1 gigabyte limit on downloaded data per month...
Seeing as a majority of you probably don't sit there all the time downloading things, you won't be affected but for people who do, they're coming out with all the crap that they've been conned and that they are gonna sue NTL for not giving them 'unlimited' broadband like they quoted...
It's not really a month, I just wanted to worry you! It's actually a-gig-a-day!
People don't realise that they don't have an arguement against this, they can't report NTL to trading standards because it allows them to do it in the contract and it's all legal...
Online gaming too, people seem to be saying that this uses massive amounts of bandwidth and that they can't play anymore because of the limits! I've got a 128k line and not only do I get pings of about 18, if anybody can get near a gigabyte of data a day just by playing games, I'll be surprised...
Quote from some site:
"If you are on a 12 month contract
They can't hold you to contract, they have moved the goal posts!
They advertised it as "unlimited" and this is clearly a limit and an unreasonable one at that."
Basically they were saying that NTL could change their contracts, so could we by not paying!
Also, most people on their little forums seem to believe that reporting NTL to trading standards is gonna help because they have broken advertsing laws...
Funny how the person on the site has changed all of what they said yesterday after receiving many complaints telling him that he was completely wrong! Boasting that he had complained to all the authorities about how NTL broke the contract and how they were falsely advertising...
He's changed it all now after realising how much of a prat he was making out of himself!
1 gigabyte a day is an awfully high amount of data to be downloading, EVERY DAY! People say that they have to upgrade Linux which is often 1.5 gig at a time, are they trying to say that this happens every day?
Also, wouldn't your PC fill up after a while if you were downloading updates to software all the time? You can't burn the updates to a disk, maybe the download files...
I've got no problem with what they are doing, BT have already done it by limiting their service and BTGenie also limited their 'unlimited free text' service to 300 a month...
Still though, people continue to complain, it was offered as a 'residential' service when they got it and by continuously downloading, they weren't acting as it was stated in the terms and conditions and limits had to be introduced because people were abusing the service...
All 'unlimited' packages have catches, Freeola's catch in the T&C is that bandwidth is unlimited until it starts to have a dramatic effect on the speed of the server and other people's sites...
Finally, when people are told of the miseries of living in Australia and how they have crappy limits, these people start swearing and being offensive to them because the Aussies should 'stand up for themselves!'
'If people abuse the service, the service abuses them'
Seeing as a majority of you probably don't sit there all the time downloading things, you won't be affected but for people who do, they're coming out with all the crap that they've been conned and that they are gonna sue NTL for not giving them 'unlimited' broadband like they quoted...
It's not really a month, I just wanted to worry you! It's actually a-gig-a-day!
People don't realise that they don't have an arguement against this, they can't report NTL to trading standards because it allows them to do it in the contract and it's all legal...
Online gaming too, people seem to be saying that this uses massive amounts of bandwidth and that they can't play anymore because of the limits! I've got a 128k line and not only do I get pings of about 18, if anybody can get near a gigabyte of data a day just by playing games, I'll be surprised...
Quote from some site:
"If you are on a 12 month contract
They can't hold you to contract, they have moved the goal posts!
They advertised it as "unlimited" and this is clearly a limit and an unreasonable one at that."
Basically they were saying that NTL could change their contracts, so could we by not paying!
Also, most people on their little forums seem to believe that reporting NTL to trading standards is gonna help because they have broken advertsing laws...
Funny how the person on the site has changed all of what they said yesterday after receiving many complaints telling him that he was completely wrong! Boasting that he had complained to all the authorities about how NTL broke the contract and how they were falsely advertising...
He's changed it all now after realising how much of a prat he was making out of himself!
1 gigabyte a day is an awfully high amount of data to be downloading, EVERY DAY! People say that they have to upgrade Linux which is often 1.5 gig at a time, are they trying to say that this happens every day?
Also, wouldn't your PC fill up after a while if you were downloading updates to software all the time? You can't burn the updates to a disk, maybe the download files...
I've got no problem with what they are doing, BT have already done it by limiting their service and BTGenie also limited their 'unlimited free text' service to 300 a month...
Still though, people continue to complain, it was offered as a 'residential' service when they got it and by continuously downloading, they weren't acting as it was stated in the terms and conditions and limits had to be introduced because people were abusing the service...
All 'unlimited' packages have catches, Freeola's catch in the T&C is that bandwidth is unlimited until it starts to have a dramatic effect on the speed of the server and other people's sites...
Finally, when people are told of the miseries of living in Australia and how they have crappy limits, these people start swearing and being offensive to them because the Aussies should 'stand up for themselves!'
'If people abuse the service, the service abuses them'
Page: