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Originally Posted by Blake
Aint not tech, never claim to be.. just pointing out the obvious
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As is often the case the answer lies between the two extremes.
At off peak times they will not be impacting on others or themselves but at peak periods everyone including themselves will notice a degredation in service.
The hogs don't mind too much as they are getting so much extra usage anyway but those expecting a reasonable service when they do use it are rightly annoyed as they dont have the balancing extra benefit.
One solution to the problem would be to put all the known hogs on one UBR then see just how fast they would all scream about other people's useage getting in the way of their own.
This is not possible though so the logical way to ensure everyone wins is to encourage the downloaders to do so of-peak and that way nobody suffers from degraded services.
The advantage of doing this is it would then be possible to increase the allowances to more reasonable levels for downloading providing the majority of that use was at off-peak times.