oops I just got my first warning from Tiscali broadband about their fair usage policy. They ask you not to spend all the peak hours downloading large files because it impacts on the service they can offer to other users - which is fair enough. I'll have to be more careful. I spent all yesterday evening downloading 4 series of MTV's Newlyweds which was probably the last straw (don't laugh). If you don't heed their warnings you get to share bandwidth with all the other outlawed policy abusers and I want to avoid that if possible - but at least they don't just disconnect you...