[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Well the plusnet idea is good for people like me, I do most of my downloading when I go to bed anyway, for 2 reasons.

1 - Out of respect for gamers who like to play games in the evening.
2 - So it doesnt affect my own connection as I do a lot of stuff on secure telnet.

I can understand its not good for everyone, there are cases where you have to be at your pc to do your downloading but I think that type of downloading is usually for smaller files and within the 30 gig limit they give you, if not then yeah its a bad situation. But plusnet's idea certianly is better then ntl's implementation at least they are aiming to please as many people as possible.

The point that I was making was that you still have to carefully monitor your use if you have a service such as Plusnet. The really heavy downloaders will try to cram as much as they can through in the off-peak period and if their connection goes slow for whatever reason during that period then a lot of the queued downloads will actually take place in peak time.