Speeeeeeeed....

Just as I was getting used to life in the, well, at least middle lane of the broadband motorway, NTL have announced that they're giving all their customers 10Mb connections as standard. Coming at a time when I'm getting my head around newsgroups, subscribing to these services, and discovering one can download a DVD in 5 hours at 2Mb/sec...the prospects of doing that in an hour are mind blowing! I suppose it depends on the speed of the news servers (and whether they're based in Europe as trans-Atlantic speeds are measurably slower at these dizzying levels of speed), and for the internet in general there probably won't be too many content providers who can pump stuff out at 10Mb/sec, but time will tell....I'm considering, for two reasons (one should be obvious but I'm not going to state it) cancelling my LoveFilm subscription, and migrating to the 3Mb NTL service (the second reason being the cost of LoveFilm is about the cost of the 2 to 3Mb upgrade), as these customers will be given the 10Mb lines first. The only worry is how strictly the cap will be enforced (a 75GB cap has been mentioned on this forum), and how much NTL will charge for their "pay for what you use" service. I'm guessing I'll be paying £37.99 (the 3Mb price as of today) then, so why not get used to it now? I have only one obstacle. Her name is Rebecca.