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Originally Posted by dirtydog

That is a different argument. I have no knowledge of the AUP or that leaving a p2p client uploading 24/7 breaks ntl's rules.. could you possibly point me in the direction of the relevant paragraph that covers it? I know some ISPs don't allow p2p usage but I wasn't aware that ntl was one of them.

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2. General Use

As a general principle, you must not use the Services in any way that is unlawful or illegal or in a way that affects the enjoyment of other users of the Services.

Nobody may use the Services, either directly or indirectly:

1. to transmit, publish, link to, make available or receive any material which is defamatory, offensive, abusive, obscene, indecent, racist, harmful, threatening or menacing; or
2. in a way that will be a breach of any person's rights, including a breach of confidence, copyright, privacy or any other rights; or
3. in breach of any instructions we have given you under the Agreement; or
4. in a way that is associated with a criminal offence; or
5. in a way that does not conform with the acceptable use or anti-spam policies of any connected networks, the standards of the Advertising Standards Authority, professional publishing standards or any Internet standards; or
6. to infringe by the use of any domain name, mail box name or otherwise upon the rights of any other person in a trade mark or name whether in statute or common law; or
7. to send email or any other type of electronic message with the intention or result of affecting the performance or functionality of any computer facilities; or
8. in excess of "normal use" bandwidth limits set out in this section.*

ntl: home's broadband and dial-up services are intended for normal recreational or educational use by individuals and families and our pricing and network architecture have been designed accordingly. Customers who use the services more heavily than a normal home user will reduce the performance of the network for other customers.

"Normal use" of the service is defined as up to 1 gigabyte downstream of data transfer daily (which equates to approximately 200 music tracks, 650 short videos, 10,000 pictures or around 100 large software programmes downloaded per day).

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You must not use third party (i.e. not ntl supplied) software that will sustain your Internet connection when the machine is not in use. In addition you must not use an email program to check for new mail at short intervals, or leave the computer on a self-refreshing web page to avoid automatic disconnection from the Internet.