legal or illegal

[gd_nimrod]

By "our isp" you mean your isp right? Mine does have a limit, and yes it is of how many gigabytes you download/upload.

[Enchanter]

Originally posted by chickeneater
so let me get this strait. a download cap is when you are limited from downloading every month? because i have an 80 GB hard drive, and fille it up with downloads in 2 weeks! is that so?

40GB in a week!!!! My. . .you're just purely downright a leecher, aren't you?

[chickeneater]

possibly... but i do have a litte bit of upload! i always have one upload, so a little is better than none

[hacker_on_fire]

i am so jealous of you people with high bandwidth connections. i'm still on a 56kb connection. to get broadband it costs cheapest £28/month with no caps YET.
life is so not fair

[techno]

LMAO!!

NTL were doing £15 a month HOF..last time I saw...

[gd_nimrod]

Here in quebec the cheapest broadband (2mbit++) is only ~40$ Canadian, so thats for sure less than 20pounds

[hacker_on_fire]

@ techno: my landline is BT, so that rules NTL out. besides ntl £15/mnth is for a 256kb connection, not a 512kb connection.

@ gd_nimrod: i do not live in quebec, so that rules that option out.

thanks for the suggestions though.

[SKD_Tech]

NEWSGROUPS take alook at the newsgroups. Try to shut them down

[GalFisk]

A download cap is, essentially, a limit for how much you can download each month, and if you overstep the limit you'll have to pay a certain fee per MB downloaded. I currently have a 100GB cap on a 1mbit cable, with a overload fee of 0.24p/MB (2 swedish öre)
I had to limit my KaZaA upload speed quite drastically, seems I have uploaded almost 1.5 times as much as I have downloaded as of now.
Seems like ISPs in Sweden are much less restrictive than yours. I can also choose a connection with no cap, but then bandwidth is limited to 512kbps, this to preventing people to run FTP-servers and such that constantly gobble an unreasonable amount of the bandwidth, since this is a local ISP with few users and a limited bandwidth shared between the users.

[chickeneater]

i have no cap, and i checked my bandwidth last week at 2.8mbps and i am sure that it can go faster. plus ours is relatively cheap 30 american dollars a month

[Batman]

I envy you

2.8 mpbs, unlimited bandwidth @ $30/month is a fantastic deal.

I pay $45/month for a supposed 1.5 mpbs adsl connection (I cannot upload and download simultaneously, and uploads are capped). I rarely get 90 kbps dl's usually in the 20 kbps range

[gd_nimrod]

"I cannot upload and download simultaneously"

How is that possible? Unless you mean at reasonable speeds...

[Batman]

Yes when I ul at 13 kbps (max), I enjoy modem download speeds

[gd_nimrod]

Damn that must suck You must be in a highly-condensed city right? Where like a block shares 30 internet connections

[Batman]

nope. I'm in a small city and each person has one seperate connection from what I understand.

I was thinking about switching to cable. My friend can sustain two uploads at 40 kbps each and he downloads at 125 kbps. However, cable depends on the neighborhood. I hope I get good speeds. When I get time I'll give cable a try, plus they've bundeled it with a nice cable package...maybe it's time to throw out my rusty antenna