Okay, people, let us all calm down for a moment. ISPs in all the world will do some form on bandwidth limitation somewhere on their network. This is what enables you to collect your email or read cnn.com instead of Bob-Two-Doors-Down gobbling all the available bandwidth to download his collectors edition of 'Debbie does Dallas'.
Bandwidth limitation may be a bitch, but in Malta where bandwidth is very, *very* expensive (when compared to mainland Europe) it at least provides us with the ability to use our connections. An ISP will not (if they are sensible) impose the same limits 24/7. Corporate customers (who use during the day mostly) need more access than regular domestic users (who use during the evenings). At weekends things may be different, but in any case any form of bandwidth limitation will take into account the type of traffic an regulate depending. And and a trick for my namesake: Use a well known port for your application. If anyone here is unhappy about their ISP, change ISP. Check the ISP beforehand though. Talk to others who are current users (not friends of friends) and check out the ISP infrastructure, ie. is the ISP simply two 2600 series Cisco boxes under someones bed. BTW, 'sims', which ISP do you use?? Regs. Iain.
