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[TheBoy]

They may well be shaping access to alt.bins - and probably rightly so...

What does that mean?

They can control the amount of bandwidth used for that particular service/sub service in order to protect their network.

No Probs with My ISP

Todays usage.

Peak               24.09MB       
Off-peak       34.25GB    
      
Total       34.27GB

Your ISP has one of the worse shaping policies ever conceived!  I seem to remember the uproar when they introduced AUP/FUP (regular name changes, so they could claim no more FUP, or no more AUP).  Also seem to recall the uproar about them denying traffic shaping, until the evidence was provided to them.

Fair point, but I still have one of thier original packages, it has added a fair usage policy from 4PM and Midnight, fine by me.

Other than that they leave me alone.  a potential of 43GB  a day if I choose to use it and not using peak rate.

I run the forum from a legacy service - 100Gb of download (uploads not counted) of alledgedly unfettled, unshaped access as and when I want it.

To be honest, I have to really go some to get anywhere near my download limit, on top of the bandwidth that running the OOF server uses.  And I'd consider my uses 'extreme'.  Anyone using more than I do, well, no way can it be entirely legal

[Mr Skrunts]

And as to 34Gb  is a day, there is no legal use I can think of for a single person needing that amount.  There is surely a limit to how many 'linux distros' or whatever the new name for films/music/warez is currently you need?

I agree with what you are saying, and if I was downloading that or more on a daily basis then it would certainly look dodgy.

I certainly wont do or condone anything with illegal downloading.

All I can add is that I have a wonderfull collection of wallpaper for my electroninic picture frame, last nights was loads of high res American cars from as far back as the 50's and 1000's of high res landscape pics of some of the worlds largest waterfalls and rivers etc.   You get the jist.  Also some nice F1 car pics as well.