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DieDieMyDarling · 12-12-2005, 16:59

I think there's two important factors in this argument.

1 - More and more people are moving to Newsgroups, people that never would have messed with them before. I myself started using newsgroups this year, having always been wary of them before that, due to it being an overcomplicated way of downloading files. But as more and more people move to newsgroups it lowers the amount of upstream used, they don't need a constant upstream max out, just to keep a steady download speed (apart from the upstream that supports the acks).

2 - Most if not all of the people that i personally know, who use a lot (40+GB a month) of bandwidth, do so overnight, including myself. All the people that have already been leeching have been doing so overnight, and as Ignition says, the peak hours still use up double the bandwidth of the off peak hours. So surely the hours of midnight - 8am can handle the leeching/mass downloading? And if they still prioritise http and gaming, then most people won't realise any problems, as those downloading overnight will not be sitting there watching a byte by byte speed readout, they'll be in bed safe in the knowledge that their files will be done for the morning.

12-12-2005, 16:59	#12
DieDieMyDarling Inactive Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Belfast Age: 52 Services: 10 mb NTL Broadband, Sky TV (full package). Posts: 309	*Re: all* ntl Cap Discussion (part 4)** I think there's two important factors in this argument. 1 - More and more people are moving to Newsgroups, people that never would have messed with them before. I myself started using newsgroups this year, having always been wary of them before that, due to it being an overcomplicated way of downloading files. But as more and more people move to newsgroups it lowers the amount of upstream used, they don't need a constant upstream max out, just to keep a steady download speed (apart from the upstream that supports the acks). 2 - Most if not all of the people that i personally know, who use a lot (40+GB a month) of bandwidth, do so overnight, including myself. All the people that have already been leeching have been doing so overnight, and as Ignition says, the peak hours still use up double the bandwidth of the off peak hours. So surely the hours of midnight - 8am can handle the leeching/mass downloading? And if they still prioritise http and gaming, then most people won't realise any problems, as those downloading overnight will not be sitting there watching a byte by byte speed readout, they'll be in bed safe in the knowledge that their files will be done for the morning.