SLT ADSL bandwidth caps : Bad Idea ?

[lkdood]

Say goodbye to unlimited bandwidth from SLT ADSL. The TRC is cracking down on all ISPs to introduce bandwidth caps and place in a fair-user policy on all broadband packages. There goes the neighbourhood for us heavy users At least this way SLT won't dominate the broadband market.

This came after SLT's servers crashed due to the big growth of heavy users (who used the 1mbps xcite package). After this crash, all users of the 1mbps xcite package were affected and their speeds practically came to a standstill (speeds became slower than a dial-up connection). So xcite users (like myself) have been asked to downgrade for the time being and SLT is planning to roll out these new packages to eliminate the old ones.

SLT didn't notify any of it's xcite subscribers of the problem, users had to make the call themselves and verify the decrease in speed. Really bad customer support

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[shiyan_786]

a very bad idea....

 

[samila224]

Hafoii!!

 

[lkdood]

looks like SLT has decided not to expand backbone bandwidth

they want more users to share what they have = slow speeds & caps

 

[Heshanck93]

will this affect home users as well ?

 

[tckrockz]

How about the other packages? Like the old 512 package?

 

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[rishoban]

hmm...Mobile Broadband plans are better than this

 

[jay25]

 

[tckrockz]

Well I called SLT and they said that they dont know anything about a monthly capacity!

 

[prasadana2]

shick .. kiyala wadak na.. cha max.. making profits is no1 Not the customer

 

[lkdood]

will this affect home users as well ?

How about the other packages? Like the old 512 package?

no

but you never know what they will do

heavy traffic on the network because the number of users are increasing

 

[gudaya]

512 ekatath kelawayda danne

 

[Thilinacba]

So will this affect to 512Kbps home package?....I hope not or no use of keeping and paying SLT for crap speed.Only thing I keep SLT connection is their unlimited downloads without caps.

btw to the poll this is hell bad idea....trc is gone nutz.I don't see how this is gonna control the "domination" of SLT in broadband world.Up to date only reliable isp in SL is SLT imho.Without doing smt crap like this if they increased the quality of service of other isp's then it will sorta control that so called "domination".

really SL is getting crap day by day....

 

[tckrockz]

no

but you never know what they will do

heavy traffic on the network because the number of users are increasing

Then I dont think adding a bandwidth cap is the solution they develop their servers and such because of the rapid growth. This is just unfair to the users. Why do we have to pay for their mistakes?

 

[Silver bird]

very bad idea. slt is worthless without their unlimited connection. might as well go to dialog

 

[lkdood]

Then I dont think adding a bandwidth cap is the solution they develop their servers and such because of the rapid growth. This is just unfair to the users. Why do we have to pay for their mistakes?

They don't want to spend money to increase bandwidth

Investing in sea cables to Middle East/Europe & Singapore/Hong Kong is needed

 

[Hayao]