BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

KIA said:
80/20 is available to all but not everyone will benefit.

Distance from exchange is irrelevant.
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Read the rest of my sentence and you'll see that I know that the experience is dependent on the distance to the local cabinet rather than exchange .. which I haven't checked as of yet with my own two feet
 
When a provider throttles your P2P during peak times, does anyone know if it's just your Torrent speeds that are affected or your whole line? Because I have a brother who still uses Torrents while everyone else has moved onto better things and I've told him to stop, especially when I'm playing my MMORPGs. I find that I can download as much as I like the normal way and still maintain a good latency in games, but as soon as he starts up his Torrent client, it pees me off! Is it the uploading that kills my network?

Now there's no point telling him to stop cos I can't pop into his room every time I get high latencies thinking he's the culprit, but I don't want to completely block off his MAC address as well incase he really needs internet access. But if BT were to throttle his Torrent speeds, would everything else like browsing, streaming, gaming and normal downloading be affected?
 
How is everyon'se usenet speeds? Was noticing a slow down last night, and again this morning. Down from 8.8 to around 4, then back up again. Using SSL port 443, 20 connections to supernews eu.
 
Mines pretty much sat at this since the day i was upgraded :) Very consistent to rarely see slow speeds.

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sharingan_sasuk said:
but as soon as he starts up his Torrent client, it pees me off! Is it the uploading that kills my network?
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He needs to cap upload speed to 80% of max. uTorrent's Setup Guide will do it for him.

sharingan_sasuk said:
But if BT were to throttle his Torrent speeds, would everything else like browsing, streaming, gaming and normal downloading be affected?
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The shaping would only affect BitTorrent. He might be able to get around it if he were to force encryption.
 
MilanoChris said:
How is everyon'se usenet speeds? Was noticing a slow down last night, and again this morning. Down from 8.8 to around 4, then back up again. Using SSL port 443, 20 connections to supernews eu.
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tm1210 said:
Has anyone been getting limited speeds with newsgroups? I seem to be getting 10Mbs when my line is 37Mbs. With Astraweb.
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As above, I've noticed some weirdness, but I don't know if it's my config or some other BT shenanigans going on.
 
MilanoChris said:
As above, I've noticed some weirdness, but I don't know if it's my config or some other BT shenanigans going on.
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oh sounds like Newsgroups are getting throttled as well as p2p now :) only a matter of time as Virgin Media throttle both of them now :( i use a VPN and i get top downloads 24/7 i use Mullvad very good and cheap too :)
 
jamjar said:
oh sounds like Newsgroups are getting throttled as well as p2p now :) only a matter of time as Virgin Media throttle both of them now :( i use a VPN and i get top downloads 24/7 i use Mullvad very good and cheap too :)
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One person has slow speed issues and that's enough for you to decide BT are throttling newsgroups!?!
 
KIA said:
He needs to cap upload speed to 80% of max. uTorrent's Setup Guide will do it for him.



The shaping would only affect BitTorrent. He might be able to get around it if he were to force encryption.
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That's perfect, because I don't care if his torrents get throttled as long as BT don't throttle the whole line. How do they do it? Via port blocking or something?
 
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