BM08

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7240234.stm

topaz

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Virgin are already throttling bandwidth for heavy users

I have now waved 20 m/b Virgin goodbye and waved hello to bethere 24 m/b

Christian and Beccy

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BT throttle bandwidth too once you exceed their 50gb limit.

topaz

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i'm up to 50 gigs by lunchtime

Fil

isps aint going to help are they, as if you couldnt dl large files like films etc, then everyone might aswell go back to the cheepest 1 / 2 / 3 meg conections, no point in paying them top doller for 20 meg + services!

topaz

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There was a transition period where I had both virgin 20 meg and bethere 24 meg so I used a dual balancing router to get a speed of 'up to 44 megabytes'

I could suck a dvd9 down in a few mins

That was fun while it lasted

Graceland

Isn't it a bit impossible to police the content of peer-peer downloads without the isp actually accessing the software on the computers

GARETH T

the internet going to be a boring place for those left here

dojj

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when i couldn't download a lot due to the slow speeds i used to download all the time

now it's virtually instantanous i don't do as much

strange eh

BM08

Its not about how much your downloading, its about WHAT your downloading

But as said above, how is another question

Big brother is watching

dojj

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i stream films from the net

is that illegal if i don't pay for them?

what about us lot with sky anytime who can watch films off the computer?

we need to be able to download and i'm sure there's not enough peole in the world or enough memory to be able to keep a record of what everyones downloaded ever and then sift through it to find that one track that they are going to prosecute you for

it's not a small enough problem and it needs too large a chunk of resources to give too small a return

unles chip gets on the books, he can type real quick

SS1

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yes via this site

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

i do know of a better one but thats for my use only

rauri

is pg2 any good? is it worth getting (i d/l maybe 2 films and 2 albums a week)

will it help my d/l speeds at all?

Smit

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It is physically almost impossible to track every single kb of information a UK user sends and recieves per day! Far far to much!

They are probably looking to catch the dumb arse people who don't know what they are doing and leave programs like kazza and emule running 24/7! LOL

For a pro who use's newsgroups and peer blocking programs i really can't see how they are going to cope monitoring them...

Might be proved wrong though , but i seriously doubt it!