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My own "heavy" downloads are usually via usenet so I can easily schedule downloads overnight. In fact I aready do since it allows me to play online games without extra lag in the early evening.Nothing I download is that urgent. I don't even get close to the soft cap now but it's a psycological thing and Plusnet have recognised that. No need to watch how much you're downloading since you get 3 warnings and then clampdown is if your usage is over on 3 consecutive months, I'd never breech that, especially with the overnight usage allowances. If the suggestions that caps will apply over a 24 hour period on NTL are correct I can't see me stopping a day longer than I have to since I know I *occasionally* download over a gig day (mostly overnight at that). I'm not a heavy user by any means. In the last 11 days, since I restarted logging downloads on Netlimiter I've downloaded 7 gig, 3 of those days went over 1gig by 1-200,000 k. I'd have been stuck on 56k for those days even tho' on other days I downloaded less than 200,000k. Hopefully these are just rumours or ideas floating about and when the hard caps are imposed NTL will see sense or borrow Plusnet's ideas.