[jambutty]

I can’t Neil. Minimum 12 months contract and I don’t think that my grounds for cancelling a contract are reason enough to do so without penalty.

The other point with BT is that it is an always on system. I can disconnect from the Internet if I am working off line but it re-connects all by itself after a while. Even if I don’t have the browser up or the email client, Zone Alarm still shows that data is passing between me and the world and back even after I have cleaned out all the cookies and spyware etc. So I wonder what it is? It could be various programmes searching for any updates I suppose but what else? The only way to stay disconnected is to power down the modem – Oooops! Sorry! I mean router!

I tried that bandwidth reader that you suggested Basher but it only reads session bandwidth usage not cumulative for the month. Thanks anyway.