When your ISP throttles your bandwith..

Hi folks.
I've reason to belive that my uk based provider BritishTelecom (BT) is deliberatly throttling the bandwith on people who use file sharing software, according to an old link from 2001
BT admits to bandwidth restrictions for file-sharing sites | The Register

No matter what i try, the downloads are either so slow or they are not happening at all. But what i am wondering is that if the service provider has done this intentionally, is there some kind of work-around ?.
I feel its totally wrong that some ISP's allow users to file share while others are missing out on a huge part of the internet.

Hi adasel,
You are not alone !!!
Many u.k. isp providers do the same and have hours during the day when they 'throttle' or 'Shape' bandwidth,making life very difficult.
go to '' Search '' top of forum page and type in '' Tiscali '' and you will find LOTS of comments and info.
My advice is buy latest LWire Pro,and or get a new provider.
Have you rung your provider?
What did they stipulate as your a) Download speed b) Download limit per week?
Read all threads on this forum,
hope this helps.I sympathise with the fact you have been duped !
( I was too)
N2


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...tml#post207219
And an excellent link from Lotr:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...tml#post119626

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Adasel

As Newbee2 said, there are many UK ISPs that throttle P2P connections and there is nothing you can do about it other than move to another ISP, like Bulldog.

You know that many ISPs, including BT, claim that you get "Unlimited" downloads and anything up to 16 Megs download speed. However, ISPs have redefined the word "Unlimited" to mean strictly limited with unspecified exceptions and your so-called 16 Meg downloaded speed now stands for 0 - somewhere near 6 megs, if your local telephone exchange has the appropriate equipment and you don't live too far from it.

You should read this BBC article:

BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband speeds under scrutiny


And to answer your original questions:P2P Throttling is done intentionally, ISPs have to buy and install specialised hardware and software to perform this specific task. As for workarounds, some users have discovered workarounds but these tend to last only for a day or two because as soon as the ISPs monitoring equipment detects the breach the throttling equipment is recalibrated and the breach closed.

Finally, I believe that until someone (or a consumer champion) sues a group of ISPs for constantly using misleading adverts we, the public, will be constantly and repeated lied to by UK based ISPs about what we are buying into and what we are actually getting.


UK Bob

thanks guys!
and to think that BT are one of the biggest names in the business and make money by lieing to their customers and ripping them off
The government should be taking action against them for misleading internet speeds let alone the public

BRILLIANT link uk bobby,have filled in complaint form and would urge evryone who is having problems to do the same on this BBC page,we might make a difference!!
Nice one bobby!!
N2

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Agreed, it is an excellent link, i think im gonna send a complaint form too..
thanks ukbobby!

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