[Mauldor]

It all sounds simple to me, the Infratructure they have in place (CM and ADSL) is not suited to the task in hand, much like 56K modems had a limit on that the ISP required banks of modem thus made it cost more to provide the service and someone hogging a line 24/7 meant someone, sonwhere got a busy tone.

Its a pity there was not someway of managing the users in that heavy users all got bundled onto the same UBR, then all they would effect is each other. The problem we have is much like 56K modems, if enough people saturate the avil bandwidth, everybody else on that UBR Suffers with slow browsing, bad pings in game etc.

I think the percentage of people using P2P though is not as high as has been said, its easier to cram 500 people on one UBR (if thats possible) and pretend the bandwidth is scarce then providing a proper service and having 200 say on each UBR. The good thing is, if they do bring in a Hard Cap, it will free up the space for the people on each UBR as the people in the know will move on without even thinking about it. You got to remember that in the ADSL market, there is not just ONE providor to choose from - you have a braod choice in that respect.

As already said by a few - most if not all ADSL providors offer both a LITE package and a normal package - only the LITE one has the CAP in place. I would like someone who keeps saying ADSL will have caps soon to show me a ISP that has a CAP across there entire range please as NTL do... to my mind only NTL place a CAP on the entire package range - which is a tad short sighted in my eyes.