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Demon said:I feel sorry for Plusnet, they've got themselves into a no-win situation. On one hand they want to ensure their users have adequately fast broadband, but ADSL is a contended service so speed is dependant on how busy their customers are. The only way to better guarantee speeds is to limit the activity of the busiest users - i.e. impose download limits - but this then becomes a stain on the company, even if the majority of users won't even be affected by it.
The download limits on the first page are very high - claiming only 0.3% of users will notice is probably a fair statement. The only danger is if Plusnet decide to reduce this limit in the future - it's hard to introduce a cap to an uncapped service, but relatively easy to lower this limit...
The realy daft thing is that Capping does not improve the service. It just persuades their customers that they are better of going else where.
The SOLE and ONLY reason ISP's impose Caps is to reduce their COSTS. Thats the only reason.
The ONLY way you improve the service is by Limiting usage at peak periods. No ISP that I know of though does that.























