RE: BTInternet does it again !!!

["Phillip Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

> Contrary to what most people believe, the internet is not
> 'free'. BT have to pay for the fat pipes to carry your data
> up/down the country and over to Europe and the US. This does
> not come cheap, and must be paid for ultimately by the endusers.

I never said it was or should be free ... I an happy to pay a reasonable price for a service such as that that I was on with V21 which offered
unmetered access. When they went to 8 hours a day I would have been
happy to have paid 3 x my subscription for 24 hour access even though I
don't use 24 hours access each day - I just dislike a spurt of heavy
useage blocking me from the web! Going from =A39.99 to =A3109 a month thoug= h
was taking the piss!

> Ultimately, unmetered access is just that, access that is not
> metered by the second like a standard voice call. If people
> used net access like they did when it was 1p/min then it
> would still be ?9.99/month. but there are an increasing
> number of the ?12/month crowd who are downloading
> P2P/newsgroup warez by the gigabyte 24x7 with their PCs on
> autopilot, this a pushed the backbone bandwidth required thru
> the roof, which costs, so something has got to give. Hence
> the reducing number of hours. If you're complaining 12 hours
> isn't enough, would it be fair to said you're one of ones
> causing the problem?

Yup ... I can pull as much through my little 64k ISDN line in a day as
you guys can with always on ADSL services in the same time ... Who is
going to make the biggest demands on bandwidth there? Give me the same
deal ... always on access on my ISDN line for =A330 a month. I'm only
using one set of copper between my house and the exchange same as the
ADSL boys so I'm not tying up any more lines and I'm using a tenth of
the possible bandwidth.

Maybe I was one of the "problem causers" but I've tried to find a= n
always on ISDN service that isn't business rates and I can't find one
...
  

Phil

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