Being throttled back?

sdfuk

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Hi
A couple of weeks ago I received a letter from BT saying that I was reaching my "unlimted" download limit - fair usage policy etc - and that I could download software to keep and eye on it.

Since then my internet speed has become slower and slower - coincidence?

All week the speed has been about 200-300 kbps (i'm on an 8mb speed package) and at this moment it's a massive 81 kbps for the bargain price of £22/month!! **** me thats going back to a dial up speed.

Anyone else has similar experiences? Can BT throttle back a single IP address?

Cheers
S

PS line check is all clear.
 
Maybe you should remind them of the changes the ASA have made regarding the use of the term "unlimited" for broadband.

If they keep on ramming their FUP down your throat, then walk out and go to sky (if the exchange that you're connected to offers sky LLU) where unlimited really means unlimited.
 
Sounds a bit strange BT did away with the throttling on unlimited packages months ago and I know people who regularly hit almost 1TB a month and haven't had anything from BT about it or seen any significant taffic shaping upto now (P2P has always been shaped during peak times).
 
Rroff said:
Sounds a bit strange BT did away with the throttling on unlimited packages months ago and I know people who regularly hit almost 1TB a month and haven't had anything from BT about it or seen any significant taffic shaping upto now (P2P has always been shaped during peak times).
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yes p2p is throttled as a when your network requires it :) the best way round it is to use Newsgroups as they don,t throttle them ,plus there safer and faster to download items :) and no seeding involved I think if your a serial downloader then it will be noted by B.T and of course you will be on the throttle list :)
 
Only use the net for browsing and playing L4dead! No heavy downloads re music/films etc.

Got onto BT yesturday who did a line check and everything seems to be OK. Getting a bit fed up with it TBH. Today I'm getting 0.4 download.

I'm actually out of contract with BT so changing ISP would be simple.......I'm sure they'll hand over the MAC address without any coersion to stay.

I think in my area BE provide good downloads. I'm an O2 user to, so maybe that will be the way to go.

Cheers
S
 
Here's my exchange information:

Broadband availability overview
ADSL:Yes
SDSL:No
LLU services: Yes
Cable:No

Wireless:No

BT Wholesale information
ADSL status: Enabled as of 31/03/2003
ADSL Max status: Enabled as of 31/03/2006
SDSL status: Not available

21CN WBC status: Enabled
FTTC status: RFS date set : 30/06/2012
Not available


LLU is there so that means I can get unlimited right?
Cheers
S
 
sdfuk said:
LLU is there so that means I can get unlimited right?
Cheers
S
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LLU means the ISP have there own equipment in the exchange rather than using BT's.

unlimited is purely down to the package you have with your isp, and as far as i know only sky currently offer a proper unlimited package.

what isp's show up on the LLU list for your exchange ?
 
any chance you can post your router stats up ?

what sort of cabling etc have you got from router to phone point.

tried replacing the filter if your using one ?
 
So weird,

Just done another speed check amd now at 4.64 mbps download and 0.37 upload. all I did was this: advice on line being dropped:

1. Right-click “cmd” icon and select “Run as Administrator“. This should launch the command prompt with elevated permisions.
2. Run the following command to check the enabled offload tasks:
netsh int ip show offload
This is what I get->
Interface 1: Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1
Interface 11: 192.168.1.69
ipv4 transmit checksum supported.
udp transmit checksum supported.
tcp transmit checksum supported.
tcp giant send offload supported.
ipv4 receive checksum supported.
udp receive checksum supported.
tcp receive checksum supported.
3. Run the following command to disable all Task offloads:
netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled (This should disable all the offloads)
4. Disable and Enable the NIC (IMPORTANT)
5. Check if all Offloads are disabled from an elevated command prompt.
netsh int ip show offload
If you've done this correctly the results shouldn't show any offloads
This is what I get->
Interface 1: Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1
Interface 11: 192.168.1.69
6. To reverse this simply
netsh int ip set global taskoffload=enabled (This should re-enable all the offloads)
7. Disable and Enable the NIC (IMPORTANT)

I don't know if this has had any direct bearing on my speed but it's just shot up. I expect it'll fall back down tomorrow!!

Cheers
S
 
sorry - re BT package? Not sure as I took it out about 2.5 years ago. It was something like BT total broadband with 8mb download.
 
if you don't fancy waiting to see how the fttc setup goes (check the bt infinity website) i'd go with sky, if not then o2/be.
 
Hi

Is FTTC going to be expensive? SKY is a good option as we already have it and could get a good package.

Cheers
S
 
What exchange are you on? could be due to the exchange being over-subscribed.

You shouldn't be seeing that level of throttling from BT on the unlimited package these days. Its not like it used to where there was an "invisible" amount that once you used more than that meant your connection was hard limited to 1Mbit/s during peak time for the next 30 days. These days it works by monitoring overall traffic levels and gradually slowing down users based on their useage stats but unless the overall traffic levels of unusually high even a very heavy user shouldn't see more than about 5-10% dropping in speeds.
 
As you may not know BT throttle steam downloads as well as p2p, check out other forums with regards to this. I left BT ages ago as they throttled all my ports so went adsl24, then onto 02. BT have to have one of the worst traffic management systems, its not always contention.
 
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