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Originally Posted by lordy
Yeah to be honest I'd simply wait it out. but if T&C allow them to arbitrarily throttle any sites they want (even before I've downloaded anything at all) - well there is such a thing as an unfair contract. - but granted my Usenet downloading is not all Linux ISOs. (much like news.virginmedia.com)
Also bit-torrent (which I dont use) is a legitimate file transfer protocol , used by Game distributors etc. so I can see that being lots of fun for people (unless VM are targetting hosts and not just deep packet inspection).
I'm typing at
23:59 with download running at 4Mbps. ....
00:10 same slow speed after bouncing connection ...
00:20 back up to speed. I only wanted two movies - but I feel compelled to queue up a load of crap now and get my monies worth...
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Got to admit, you're right. Although I don't get that much these days as I mentioned, when I do occasionally get a chunk of stuff I used to do it off-peak hours anyway out of consideration for other users/network as i didn't need it. Their treatment doesn't really make me feel like doing that any more which actually makes it worse for them overall...