This bothers me a little. NTL currently have varying caps depending on price. The less you pay, the less you can download. With everyone on 10mb. With shaping, this will become, to a large extent, rather pointless. There’s no point in having a 75GB cap if you can’t download anything with it because shaping slows it to a crawl. Maybe a lot of users will simply migrate to a lower price point and accept the lower cap. That’s good for NTL because they can then slowly hike the price up on that lower cap where demand is increasing. Maybe I’m too suspicious?

I’ll just string my downloads up when I goto bed in the knowledge that the Mac puts itself to sleep after 3 hrs and won’t wake again until we need it.