[Sociable]

The implication originally was that monitoring would only apply when there was a problem and this makes perfect sense as to do otherwise would be a waste of resources.

The problem comes from thinking a blunt measurement of gigs per day provides the information to sort out who is actually impacting on other users.

A point I have made before is that a person always downloading just under a gig but doing it at peak times is actually more of a problem than someone else downloading 2 gig but doing so overnight.

The 1 gig a day rule therefore does not expose those that are actually the problem at all. In fact it may very well promote further abuse as people stick to 1 gig but do so when it is convenient for them not others simply to comply with the Cap.

The one exception to this is those rare cases where it can be seen that someone is canning the line 24/7 as they must by definition be doing so at peak times.