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Actually, this is standard behavior for the SourceForge project web service. Bandwidth usage is capped to prevent folks from serving files from project web instead of the mirror network-backed download service. Staff saw the surge in traffic to the project web site, confirmed it wasn't file serving activity, and re-enabled the site.

um... we're all looking at the site due to the change. We all used bandwidth.

I think it's fairly safe to say that rgaloppini meant account usage. i.e login and other authenticated activity.