Why can’t Sky, BBC, C4 explain somewhere what their software does and allow you to set reasonable limits? Very bad show, what?

Probably because if they allowed you to throttle the connection, it would impact on the ‘download experience’ of users (ie slower downloads). They would rather hammer your upload to make iPlayer look good.

I downloaded 4OD and did not like the way it stayed in the system tray, even after I used msconfig to stop kservice.exe and khost.exe from starting (once I worked out that Kontiki was part of the doanload). Then I found your article, most informative, many thanks indeed.

Why can’t Sky, BBC, C4 explain somewhere what their software does and allow you to set reasonable limits? Very bad show, what?