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Originally Posted by Dumas
Does your friend have a data cap and if so, how much? How much do they pay and how does that compare to what you pay?
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He's paying £45/month compared to my £21/month. He doesn't have any download limits explicitly stated, but the service is subject to an "acceptable use policy", which means that if his ISP thinks that his usage is adversely impacting their network, they can impose traffic management to restrict usage.
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That's why I referenced your ISP in quotes. They're just reselling BT. Are you saying that BT has no more bandwidth to sell your "ISP"? Have they stopped signing up new customers?
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My ISP could certainly buy more bandwidth from BT, but then they'd have to increase the costs to their customers. My ISP offers three packages, with download limits of 50, 60, and 200GB/month respectively (there are other differences other than download caps). I subscribe to the middle one of these, because it suits my needs. The 200GB/month service would cost me £42/month - double what I'm paying now.
As I've said before, though, the amount of bandwidth my ISP buys from BT isn't what's restricting my download speeds - I'm restricted by the amount of bandwidth available at my local telephone exchange.