Hear, hear. Coincidentally, and on the same topic, I posted this question on superuser.com. Was surprised that there were not more responses [1]: http://superu

Hear, hear. Coincidentally, and on the same topic, I posted this question on superuser.com. Was surprised that there were not more responses [1]: http://superuser.com/questions/1085654/how-to-minimize-unwanted-net-usage-by-processes-to-a-trickle http://superuser.com/questions/1085654/how-to-minimize-unwan... [1] The NetBalancer software seems to be helping with the issue. I'm pretty sure that a lot of these ISP issues of excessive bandwidth usage are intentional. Where in the world did you have the issues you describe, if not private?