BT fair usage policy

Rroff · 4 Aug 2009 at 17:48

Same here once I hit 30gig they start throttling, once I hit 50gig they really start agressively traffic managing

I one off hit 100gig this month and they claim I'm now going to be throttled to 1Mbit/s - like I have been ever since I went past 30gig... only its not even 1Mbit as you can see from my other posts... once you hit 100gig they throttle your connection to death.

AMG · 4 Aug 2009 at 17:50

so they LIED to my parents >_>

Wiggins · 4 Aug 2009 at 19:02

Did 30Gb here and was capped to the boolox for the rest of the month and I'm on the option 3 unlimited.

Just paid for the next 3 months of my broadband to them and now waiting in anticipation for the end of September so I can tell them to shove their service where the sun dont sine and move to Sky.

I wouldnt mind but I have been a Bt Broadband user for 6 years and the 30Gb was used between 3 of us in the house.

CliffyBiro · 4 Aug 2009 at 19:06

AMG said:
so they LIED to my parents >_>

Think that's bad?

Our contract with them was due to expire a while ago and they called us to see if we wanted to sign for another year to which I said I didn't want to and was moving to Sky and would call back later that day to sort out the migration code as I had to go out.

Well, they called back an hour later and spoke to Mum as I wasn't in and got her to sign up for another year for the same price but sent a free HomeHub.

AMG · 5 Aug 2009 at 06:47

well when I first got it, the sales guy said "no limites on downloads" literly unlimited.

after that 18 monuths we was going to go with O2 but isnt BT sned my parents a £30 cannon printer, so my dad went meh and is doing anohter 12 mouths contract with them

Klo · 5 Aug 2009 at 09:48

You guys seem pretty unlucky! I downloaded 60gb in one months and didn't notice any throttling, apart from the usual throttling they put in after 5pm to 12pm (for me). I usually get speeds of around 6.8mbits when outside of those hours, and around 5mbits inside those hours, so usually can watch youtube and iplayer.

Saying that, I have noticed when downloading all the Linux distro, that p2p gets throttled to around 25kb/s compared to the 650kb/s I would get in normal times.