In more bad news Virgin Media is trialling a scheme where they're chopping customers bandwidth down to near dialup speeds from 11 in the morning to 12 at night. They plan to roll this out nationally across the UK within the next few months. The excuse is torrents and service providers like the BBC are nuking their capacity but it just looks to me like the usual lack of forward planning by a CEO who just wants a quick way to raise earnings. If other ISP's were a one click option away or the people owned the network I'm pretty sure they'd fold in a heartbeat.