Most broadband providers and ISPs [Internet Service Providers] manage their web traffic — by prioritizing, say, video over browsing – and change the rules during their peak time for downloads. Some of them may call it bandwidth cap and some may call it fair use policy (depending on your broadband plan) but let me tell you, it is just as frustrating as the other when you hit the cap! The problem... 

Internet phone company Skype announced a bare-bones version of its software Monday designed to work over very low bandwidth internet connections that often are the only links aid workers in far flung places have to the outside world.  Skype S.A. chief executive Tony Bates said the company redesigned its application after being approached by the U.N. refugee agency to help staff working in remote locations...