Operators should be aware that due to increased demand on our podcasting service, and the number of requests we've had to increase the quality of the files, we'll be increasing the data rates of all files offered from our US mirror. At the moment all US files have the same names as NZ hosted files, but are actually lower rates. Over the next 2 weeks this will change, with the US server becoming a full mirror. The data rates of files will double (from 24k to 48k) to match those hosted in NZ. We've been able to do this because we have extra capacity in the US and can serve the extra traffic at no additional cost to us. At present NZ bound traffic from the US server sits at 10-15 Mb/s during the day. Local operators who do not peer with our NZ servers will see an increase in international inbound traffic (about double) from the US mirror over the next two weeks. After that you should allow for an increase of 10-15% per week - our current growth rate. Those who peer with our servers in New Zealand are not affected by this change. regards, Richard Hulse Radio NZ