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On 14 Sep 2007, at 10:00, Andy Gale wrote:

> Upgrade their network? I really don't see what the problem is. It's
> obvious to me that they or anybody else are not going to be able to
> produce a network that allows everybody to download 2/4/8/20 Mbps at
> the same time, so in order to keep it usable for everyone at peak they
> have introduced fairly reasonable limits. I'm very pleased about it,
> my internet at peak times has improved a great deal and I always
> schedule any downloads to take place outside of off-peak hours anyway.

That sounds a lot like an inadequate network infrastructure to me. If  
the (potential) demand is there, they ought to work towards being  
able to supply it.

My ADSL provider does not cap or traffic shape, I get 24mbps down and  
1.3mbps up. I never notice contention issues during anytime of the day.

-j