On 28/07/07, mike chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd guess it's because Bittorrent gets traffic shaped out of existance on
> a lot of ISP's.
Once ISP's see how much traffic Kontiki generates they won't traffic shape it?
Could always use encrypted bit torrent.
I would imagine an ISP would prefer Bit Torrent to Kontiki, Bit
Torrent stops transmitting if you close the application down. Kontiki
keeps running as a process, hidden from the task bar. You have to go
into Task Manager to get rid of it.
Read the 4OD forums, last time I did most posts where warnings about
how bad Kontiki is and how it got people's internet account suspended.
Of course this is only a problem if you have limited monthly
bandwidth. Very few ISPs don't impose some limit (many call there plan
"unlimited" but have a "fair usage policy", which means you aren't
allowed to use as much bandwidth as you want).
Really sucks when you open up an application to download one program
and later find out that your ISP has cut you off because when you
clicked close the downloader kept going.
Of course the BBC may have fixed this problem, anyone on the trail (or
the BBC itself) care to confirm whether this is the case?
Andy
--
Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows.
-- Adam Heath
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