From the other end of it (Score 2)

I have a clear picture of where the linuxppc folks were coming from when dealing with the bandwidth usage. I access the internet through execpc, their service provider, and was forced to use another service temporarily as establishing connections grew impossible. tcpdump was also picking up more than it's fair share of really odd packets as well. I never thought a mere modem user could feel the heat of traffic upstream, but it was certainly felt. If Microsoft were really sure of their product, they would offer to host the linuxppc machine at this point.