If you haven't seen this on the members' homepage, there's a link to this page outlining a proposal for mucking around with people who use lots of bandwidth... (may need to login to see that page...)

All broadband customers would be notified of a fair-usage level for their broadband service. This level would vary depending on the speed of their chosen product' date=' would take into account only downloaded traffic, and would exclude data transfer between 1:00-8:00 AM.

As a fair usage level is approached, we would alert customers in advance by email. If a customer's data transfer exceeds this fair usage level in a single month, we would send them an email to alert them. There would be no change to their service at this point. This process will be followed again the following month if the usage level is repeated.

We see the system operating such that each time a customer uses more than the fair usage amount it would be recorded against their account. On the third occasion, the process would progress as described below. If at any point a customer does not exceed the fair usage level for a full month, their fair usage status would be reduced by one increment.

Where customers reach this third occasion, three options would be presented to the customer. These options would be:-

- Reduction in speed until the monthly recurrence of their billing day.

- Extra capacity purchasable in GBs as per Lite broadband products.

- Assisted transfer to an alternative provider.[/size']

yet another isp introduces limits to their so called "unlimited" packages

Ahhh, but they're trying to word it so it isn't a cap - despite setting a ceiling on bandwidth usage. Then they'll either limit your speed to 128k, offer to sell you extra bandwidth, or help you switch to someone else

They've already tried switching all the leeches onto the same pipe, which meant they all had crappy connections. I don't think my monthly usage has been above 60 or 70gb which seems to have been ok (so far)...