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Where did I say anything like that? I would assume that ISPs price their products on the basis of the expected usage profile (why do you think some define peak and offpeak periods?), and for a business product they'd expect the most demand to be around office hours, and bulk downloading not to form a significant proportion of the traffic.
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Assumption ..i think thats where you are going wrong, Idnet have a blatant advert that unlike most other isp's clearly say there is no FUP however they then do start to create if you download too much. I didn't sign up for a business account that said i had to d/l what i need to during office hours i signed up for a product that was clearly offering a truly unlimited service end of !!!!
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In reply to:
clearly say there is no FUP
Where?
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Exactly !!!!!!!
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Maybe if that's the case they should take a leaf out of Newnet's book and state clearly that the unlimited part only applies during normal business hours.
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overnight backups would be just one reason for businesses to have heavy off-peak use, also if they trade a lot with other time zones eg West Coast USA or East Asia there will be a steady flow of inbound email around the clock.
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For the size business that uses an ISP rather than its own internet links, I doubt that even backup and email runs to gigabytes/day...
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I've seen people trying to do full backups every night from an office server to a remote site. That's the contents of the hard drive daily. Bad idea.
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Well, I must admit that I was assuming a bit of sense and only incremental backups being performed over ADSL... 
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This post looks fun - can I join in? 
A while back I had my line restricted temporarily for going over the 'limit' on an unlimited connection - but at least in my case the ISP clearly linked to their FUP on every related page.
I agree with you - no matter what the circumstances (business/personal/peak/off-peak), if a FUP was not made clear, they have no right causing problems over bandwidth. I know I'd be pretty p***ed off if I had specifically signed up because it was truly unlimited, yet ended up being restricted in some way.
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