Sky by Broadband - chews up bandwidth?

Question

I recently registered for and installed Sky By Broadband - fine, no probs, downloaded the movies I was interested in, but noticed that even without the program running, the Kontiki delivery manager was using up all my broadband bandwidth from the moment I logged on, until shut-down. It was such heavy useage that it made playing games on-line impossible.

I have now uninstalled the Sky & Kontiki software, and wondered if anyone can let me know if they have had similar issues, or if there is something I can do to limit Kontiki's access to my connection?

Answer 1

This is a dreadful abuse by Sky. The software works on Peer-to-Peer, so whenever the software is running there will be other users downloading movies from your machine.

This saves Sky money as they don't have to pay so much for bandwidth, but means that unless you uninstall the software, your bandwidth will be being used up.

And if you're not on an unlimited usage package there's a serious chance that you'll go over your allowance and incur extra charges from your ISP.

If you're looking to disable the Kontiki software, try the link below.