Evening all,
About a month ago I moved from Nildram (Tiscali failtrain) to O2 Broadband, the home access package, as I live in the middle of Lincolnshire and we dont have proper broadband here yet, just 8MB max (which in reality is 7.1 at the most).
So I moved over to O2, all went fine, was getting the correct speeds and such.
Recently I got an email, stating they were starting a traffic management policy that capped Torrent/Newsgroup speeds at peak times, to dedicate more speed to Browsing/Iplayer etc. Again, considering I download from Usenet at night, sometimes, no problem there.
Here is the odd thing, from then on, web pages/streams and everything have ground to a halt, they are literally loading at extremely slow speeds (<1MB, usually a lot less), speed tests are showing roughly 1.5MB line speed etc.
BUT, if I go onto Usenet and set something to download, it goes flying along at 600 kbps, which is 6/7MB speed.
The above makes absolute no sense to me, having called O2, they told me there was a "problem" with the traffic management policy and its most likely related to that, which would make sense, but still its a strange one. And they would try and sort it, in the NEXT FOUR WEEKS!
Considering I wanted to watch Sky Player on the 360 and obviously dont want pages loading at god awful speeds, this really isnt any good to me at all!
So question is, after the above waffle, is there any way I could try and change anything relating to how web pages/streams are loading via the ports or anything like that, to try and get around this screwed management policy, as its obviously not capping the entire line speed due to the Usenet speeds at peak times.
If not, I'll be calling them up and they will have to completely remove any restrictions from my line until they have sorted the problem, or I'll have my MAC code and go somewhere else, as I have been mis-sold the O2 deal (no mention of any Traffic Management when I got it) and its broken anyway.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and sorry for the long post
James
About a month ago I moved from Nildram (Tiscali failtrain) to O2 Broadband, the home access package, as I live in the middle of Lincolnshire and we dont have proper broadband here yet, just 8MB max (which in reality is 7.1 at the most).
So I moved over to O2, all went fine, was getting the correct speeds and such.
Recently I got an email, stating they were starting a traffic management policy that capped Torrent/Newsgroup speeds at peak times, to dedicate more speed to Browsing/Iplayer etc. Again, considering I download from Usenet at night, sometimes, no problem there.
Here is the odd thing, from then on, web pages/streams and everything have ground to a halt, they are literally loading at extremely slow speeds (<1MB, usually a lot less), speed tests are showing roughly 1.5MB line speed etc.
BUT, if I go onto Usenet and set something to download, it goes flying along at 600 kbps, which is 6/7MB speed.
The above makes absolute no sense to me, having called O2, they told me there was a "problem" with the traffic management policy and its most likely related to that, which would make sense, but still its a strange one. And they would try and sort it, in the NEXT FOUR WEEKS!
Considering I wanted to watch Sky Player on the 360 and obviously dont want pages loading at god awful speeds, this really isnt any good to me at all!
So question is, after the above waffle, is there any way I could try and change anything relating to how web pages/streams are loading via the ports or anything like that, to try and get around this screwed management policy, as its obviously not capping the entire line speed due to the Usenet speeds at peak times.
If not, I'll be calling them up and they will have to completely remove any restrictions from my line until they have sorted the problem, or I'll have my MAC code and go somewhere else, as I have been mis-sold the O2 deal (no mention of any Traffic Management when I got it) and its broken anyway.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and sorry for the long post
James
