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Originally Posted by ianauth
This could be got round by NTL having a mirror site for such items that is only available to NTL customers. It could be set so that customers could request a particular download which would be sent to their machine during night time hours when it should not affect other customers internet experience. Microsoft would be happy as it reduced the strain on its servers and NTL would keep all this traffic within its own infrastructure.
Whether such a scheme would be workable depends on how NTL measure bandwidth used and if exclusions can be made for certain sites.
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True, but bearing in mind the problems NTL have with the News servers and email servers, could they be trusted to run a mirroring server?