QUOTE(davion @ Mar 25 2010, 03:50 PM)
Hey all, new here.
Before I start, I am not here to point fingers at anyone cause I think all of us are guilty of some parts of what I say below at some point. This is my general opinion so please don't get all worked up over it.
I really cannot understand what you guys are complaining about. This CAP structure is being used in other places too. I worked in Sydney for close to 4 years. I had an Optus (Singtel jv) 20Mbps link which I had for as long as I lived there. I always had full speed and probably only 2 outages in 4 years. Guess what the CAP was 20GB peak and 40GB off peak.
I worked a lot from home using VPN to various sites. I always found the time to game and did so quite a bit over the weekends. I also downloaded quite a bit of stuff every month on my media centre rig. With the exception of 2 months I never hit the CAP otherwise.
As bad as TM is I am happy for this new launch. Sure the prices could be better (who wants to pay high prices for anything) but I think the CAP is not such a big issue as most of you here are complaining about.
Lets admit it you can't be expecting to download the entire Internet into your local desktop. For every one you there is 10 casual users out there who wont hit the CAP (if they do I stand corrected). We are meant to share the bandwidth not hog it. One of the reasons Streamyx is slow is because of all the P2P hogging out there. You can't set of 10 BT downloads and go out with your GF while some poor bugger in a different part of town is trying to download a 1MB file from Windows update. How is that fair? Sure TM should probably get more International bandwidth but the likelihood of that happening is small at least not anytime soon. In the meantime we should learn to be fair to fellow users.
Honestly think about it for a second, there is 2 many users hogging the line which affects everyone else. I have a Streamyx 4Mbps and at most times its run fine but on weekends during peak hours it can get really slow. Now I wonder why??
On a side note while we ponder about this CAP issue, I am sure there are plenty of applications for Unifi already. Do not underestimate people's need for more Internet, most people just going to close one eye and ignore the CAP.
Cheers!

You make some sense. In fact, i agree that cap WILL prevent abuse from excessive downloaders. What i don't agree is with tmnuts definition of what constitutes as an excessive downloader.
This hsbb cap size is too small and unreasonable for the pricing they are asking for.
And another thing, from what i understand, local bandwidth shouldn't be an issue, so why is that counting towards our bandwidth quota ??? Don't you also think that is uneccessary and unfair? Looks to me that they just want to fill up our quota for us as quickly and needlessly as possible

Also your reason for justifying their cap is that our internet will be faster. Well local for sure (although sources say we have plenty of local bandwidth we won't be congested ), but international will not be as fast :/ Don't take my word for it, go ask the beta trialers how fast are speeds to US and Europe
This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Mar 25 2010, 03:59 PM