--- Jeff Carruthers <jeff at carruthers.com> wrote: > Becca: our satellite provider does the same thing -- they call > it > their fair use policy, but what it means to me is that they > have too > many subscribers and they can't keep up with the demand during > busy > times. Ironically, they're giving their subscribers a strong > reason > to go somewhere else, once an alternative is available. Not a > good > business model, in my view. we live way out in the country, so we really have no alternative. *sigh* I have dreams of winning the lottery and getting a T-1 line in... I'll try your idea of downloading the podcasts at night, but isn't it a matter of how much the download slug is as opposed to when you do it? My dh downloads my audible books onto a memory stick at his office, and then we transfer them over to my computer - it's the only way I can get them without tying us up to dial up speeds for days afterwards. -becca ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs