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Originally Posted by dirtydog
I didn't say I download 2GB a day. I upload around 1GB a day, the rest is downloads. Most of my upload is p2p, the rest is general usage, ie. web, gaming, instant messaging etc.
Despite what you may believe, p2p (bittorrent) is widely used for legitimate purposes. If people like me did not leave their client running - uploading - after our downloads had finished, others wouldn't be able to download anything - or at best they'd get lousy download speeds.
Fwiw here is my bandwidth usage for the past week.. (note my upload for today is low as I have throttled back to try and stay within the 1GB.. I am on target to exceed it though)
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It's good that you are thinking about others by leaving your p2p client running.
But why not think about the other NTL users around you who may be suffering degraded service because of this?
There are legal uses for p2p but get real, over 60% of internet resources are taken up by illegal use through p2p, irc or newsgroups. Somebody has to pay for all that and it is mainly users who never do anything illegal. You can say that your p2p is justified because of rip-off prices for music, videos and software, but are you justified in ripping off your fellow users? Prices for broadband would probably be lower if all illegal use was stamped out and there may be no need for capping. So just think before complaining about caps that it is you and others like you who are causing them to be implemented.