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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber
Be realistic, the much loved 'average user' who downloads less than 3gb per month is never going to start checking email after midnight. Even if they did, we won't reach a point where the internet has ground to a halt due to p2p, certainly not any time soon.
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I would assume that ISPs such as Nildram only have enough resources to satisfy their customer base needs and possibly not enough at times. I can remember Nildram having to borrow a block of IPs from another ISP because they couldn't cater for the demand. Only having 40,000 customers would mean that they haven't got massive resources in reserve and could soon get caught short with a shift in usage patterns and the suggested influx of NTL customers into the ADSL networks. I use less than 3Gb per month and last night I was checking emails at 1:00am, 3:20am and 5:30am, although the 5:30am check was aborted when there was a power cut which lasted until after 7:00am..