Just received a note to say the monthly credit is now being stopped because they have upgraded their infrastructure to handle the extra demand on service. Seeing the controversy over the Telecom Go Large plan, I wonder what is the difference in speed between a good setup for Go Large and 10Mbs plan.

Not sure speedtest is a good measurement but I recently achieved 600KB/sec on a bittorrent download (sustained) for a file that was hosted very well in the US (designed to be distributed via BT). On files that are more ad hoc I have achieved over 300KBs which is pretty satisfying.

It would be great is the larger ISP's could find a way to cache BT traffic (perhaps local seeds) but my understanding the BT protocol isn't smart enough to be location specific so it would not necessarily favour a local seed versus an international one.  And anyway, the traffic on BT isn't always something you could legally cache :-)

Larry