My turn for a moan.
Downloaded the .iso's for FreeBSD 7.0 discs (full set including docs) and Kubuntu 8.04 to keep on disc - the first heavy use for a month- I'm on the Medium (means small in non-VM language), didn't think of the time, and after an hour wallop throttled. Normally I would have updated my ports collection, but at that speed it was a bit slow.
Came back on at 21:00 tonight to normal speed.
A bit annoyed to say the least, especially as the Kubuntu .iso came from Virgin Media's own mirror, so being a bit childish I decided to stop the download, and get it from California instead
Still it's good to have the 'Mother of all Broadband'.
So to be even more of a child, I've scheduled to download all night, every distro I can think of - just apologies if I affect anyone in my area (joke).
The only reason I can think Virgin have needed to do this is their servers are 386's with a hamster in a wheel providing power.
/end of rant - and thankyou
