Nildram moves to head-off broadband hogs

[Steve]

Nildram is putting caps in place on their high speed broadband services, according to The Register:

Nildram - which has 40,000 broadband punters - is introducing a usage limit of 50 Gig a month for non-business customers, which applies between 8.00am - 12.00 midnight. Outside of this time, no usage limit will apply.

From July, punters who exceed the 50 Gig limit will either see their service speed choked to 64k for the rest of their billing month, they can buy extra bandwidth at 99p a Gig.

[The story]

[ajbrun]

I think that's VERY resonable - especially since it's not even for all the day. This means people can set a large file to download, and in the morning, they'll have a game demo or whatever.

I just wish BT would do the same. I need to get my Dad to upgrade our 15GB cap to 30 else I'd consistently break it .