Originally posted by Kevin it is that bad kal! If I am on a 1 mg line and downloading styff like I do..normally 3 windows with stuff cued then my limit would be gone in 2 / 3 hrs! so cant use cable the rest of the day they have basically cut there service by 90% Well NTL along with any other telco get charged for the bandwidth that goes through their networks, so I can see why its happened. to be honest I'm surprised it hasnt happened already - many other countries ISP's limit their customers to around 10gb per month !! we had a leased line at my old workplace, with a 150gb limit per month which costs us £28k per qtr. if we went over that limit we'd get charged loads... yes, it sucks.. but with more and more people taking up broadband over here its probably going to be pretty common