BT blocking file sharing sites

The flash installer is the only thing I've ever been throttled on on BT. Have never understood that at alll.
 
Hxc said:
The flash installer is the only thing I've ever been throttled on on BT. Have never understood that at alll.
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It's funny you say that as at work we have open internet wifi for use, and while I can download at 200KB/Sec on pretty much anything the flash updater CRAWLS at a silly low speed.

Could be something inherent with the updater itself.
 
Yeah I don't know what BT are paying at with the flash player download but it's always been throttled, when I first had infinity it wasn't but now it's throttled again. 9KB/s is about the norm, sometimes it goes up to 30KB/s.. woah steady on!

A comparison with BE on the flash download speed (there is obviously something wrong with his bt line for it to have increased the margin so much but still it shows the flash throttleing perfectly.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8MNAlwgqr4
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Probably adobe doing the throttling.
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No, it's always been this way. Although I'm curious why you'd suggest adobe would throttle their free player which is neede for more web video on a single network across the globe :) Not only on BT but plenty BT resellers despite people kicking up a stink about or more to the point, despite massive files e.g. youtube are so much quicker. Every other isp is fine.

Btw, did anyone bother trying to tracert megaupload etc? Linx has cause multiple routing problems in the past, for both isps..
 
Don't think the flash player throttling is intentional its like a lot of stuff on BT their attempts to manage traffic can be a bit blanket at times, it probably uses some similiar technique to a known torrent method and and its traffic gets tagged as such.

While there are a lot of ways to trigger traffic management and BT tend to apply it rather agressively, you shouldn't be seeing under 100KB/s on the flash player update unless you've either gone over the useage allowance which is currently 300gig so you really have to be pushing it, your exchange has high levels of contention (BT rather than upgrade tend to agressively manage traffic as long as they can get away with) or there is some other "global" traffic issue in the BT central network i.e. if they are expecting a lot of people to be streaming a TV show on iplayer at peak time they will clamp down on P2P traffic throughout the system not just heavy users, etc.

There used to be a time when any game update on steam during peak time would result in all other traffic timing out except the steam download... BT refused to accept it was even a problem on their end for years :( seems to be fixed now tho thank goodness.
 
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Yeh, what on earth? I noticed this a couple of days ago.

Seems to be back now though.

Mr_Orange said:
Glad I diddn't make the jump to infinity. I wonder if it's just DNS blocking, if so changing your dns server to googles or opendns might get round this.
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First thing I thought. I use opendns by default and so switched to BT dns servers and that didn't help.

Apparently, this was a fault which has been rectified.
 
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Rroff, the 300GB FUP trigger is no more, you can no DL as much as you want and they won't cap your speed. Traffic management is still used but it's knowhere near as aggressive as it used to be. The only things that are throttled are torrents at peak times and the flash update.

The flash player is so odd because it's throttled regardless, it's like BT just decided it was a popular file and is so small that waiting a few mins to download it is not a problem. Which it isn't really, but it is annoying.
 
Was just reading up on in on adslguide after seeing your post about the FUP being removed and some posters suggested that not everyone would see the FUP removed immediatly from the start of April.
 
Ok, it would appear that they are missinformed. I've seen plenty of people who have breached the old limit and not been throttled, but knowone saying the opposite.
 
This is also happening with TalkTalk....

Fileserve,Filesonic are unusable...

Oron was also blocked, but is now OK, Megaupload was never affected though, dont know about Rapidshare as i never use it.

Its definately an IWF filter issue.
 
Funnily enough, BE are very sensitive to the IWF filter as well, but this time around, there has been no blockage?

Great on the eve of me swooping from BE to BT, this issue is back....
 
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