ridiculous! move ISP, now!

I told BT I was moving and they offered me 3 months half price

I think you will find that most ISPs will have some degree of priority on the types of traffic that flow over their networks. At least some are honest and tell you about what they do - plus.net make no bones about it, and and I can see why they do it. Certainly with plus.net the package you are on will affect the level of filtering/priority they apply.

I schedule my larger downloads to run at less busy times, so it is not really an issue for me.

I think you will find that most ISPs will have some degree of priority on the types of traffic that flow over their networks. At least some are honest and tell you about what they do - plus.net make no bones about it, and and I can see why they do it. Certainly with plus.net the package you are on will affect the level of filtering/priority they apply.

I schedule my larger downloads to run at less busy times, so it is not really an issue for me.

The issue is BT dont prioritize.. *all* connections and types of traffic are throttled...

I cant play online games, i cant listen to streamcast and the web is stupidly slow.. its frustrating as hell.. it takes about 10 seconds to load the brisky index!!!

My ISP uses traffic shaping to throttle certain protocols at peak times, but if there is something I want quickly there are ways around this.

Throttling everyone back to those speeds is just ridiculous! :thumbdwn:

most half decent ISPs should give priority to http pages, as that is what the majority of their users want to access. I can perfectly see why heavy p2p users should be slowed down at peak times. Obviously applications that need speedy responses are thing like VoIP, and general browsing should be responsive, as should online gaming in the evenings.

A general throttling back of everything just shows they have not planned or thought about their customers properly.

Colin, doesn't your adsl router have a bandwidth monitor built in so you can keep track of it? I remember having issues with multiple PCs connected because routers didn't tot up and so you needed bandwidth monitors on every PC and then work it out.

But the newer 3rd party firmwares have very good bandwidth monitoring / throttling / QoS built in so you can manage it and throttle back before the ISP gets you

Have you moved ISPs yet Col?

Virgin Media also caps users.

The main issue we have is that we have to reset our modem as it keeps losing the connection at times.

We're on the base package so I don't think theres much for them to cap!!! But we don't really download that much anyway.