Watching the Bandwidth Clock

Argh! Ever since I got the call about excessive bandwidth use I’ve been watching my use on the shaw secure site very carefully. It’s only the 12th and I’m already at 15 of the 20G I’m allowed before they come over here and beat me up with baseball bats. I was doing kinda ok but someone found something on the (now shut down till the end of the month) ftp site and started leeching. Urck. Maybe I should just upgrade to the higher level of account now. I have 5 gig for the next two and a half weeks. How do people survive?