> 3. Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a > connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In > fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of behaviour > more. If the ISP offer's "flat rate" or "capped flat rate" services and can't handle the load, that's their problem, not ours. It just means they didn't do their infrastructure capacity planning properly. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown