ISP's known to BLOCK or Filter p2p or specifically Limewire

[mudroads]

PIPEX have confirmed on the phone that they manage download speeds for P2P software. They do this during off peak times as well, i.e. all the time, but gave no reason. Before this change my download speeds were around 110K/sec - now they are 5 times slower, at about 22K/sec maximum.

[shan53168]

I sometimes have problems with virgin when using limewire. It disconnects during download, i try to reconnect while lw is open to no avail. When i close lw and try to reconnect it works. Anyone else have any probs with this isp?

[ukbobboy01]

shan53168

I changed from Virgin to Bulldog because of Virgin's unannounced policy of P2P traffic shaping, i.e. killing off P2P while allowing surfing and non-P2P downloads.

I found that I could no longer download films or film clips and that I could only occasionally get the odd MP3. So after about 4 months of this nonsense I changed to Bulldog.

Before Virgin’s policy change I would have said that Virgin, despite it’s higher than normal monthly subscription, was one of the best ISPs in the UK and I would have been more than happy to stay with them. But Virgin decided that it did not want anymore P2P traffic on it’s network while still charging premium prices, so I changed ISPs.



UK Bob