I'm done with BT, who should I sign with?

Yeah, BTs traffic shaping was very aggressive, they were throttling all non-HTTP traffic to 20k/s most of the day. I also believe that their traffic shaping was anti-competitive as they provide TV (BT Vision) and VOIP (BT Talk) services which were not affected by the traffic shaping but services like Skype were. I am so glad I managed to switch my parents broadband to O2, not only are we getting much faster connection speed but there is no traffic shaping.
 
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RobH said:
Yeah, BTs traffic shaping was very aggressive, they were throttling all non-HTTP traffic to 20k/s most of the day. I also believe that their traffic shaping was anti-competitive as they provide TV (BT Vision) and VOIP (BT Talk) services which were not affected by the traffic shaping but services like Skype were. I am so glad I managed to switch my parents broadband to O2, not only are we getting much faster connection speed but there is no traffic shaping.
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Exactly what I was getting in September, I must admit October was much improved.

I did switch yesterday to O2

Download speeds with BT 20-110kb/sec peek and sometimes off peek.

Download speeds with O2 600kb/sec constant and £10 cheaper.

I'm on a quite a long line attenuation 56-57db, sync speed with BT was 3.5meg and now with O2 5.5meg, it may drop a little as it has a few errors but it's looking good.

You can forget the Sync speed for BT as throttling or as they like to say trafficshaping renders it meaningless.
Also when you use the BT speedtester It will give you your throughput without the throttling applied which makes it look better than it is.
 
Sel said:
I'm on a quite a long line attenuation 56-57db, sync speed with BT was 3.5meg and now with O2 5.5meg, it may drop a little as it has a few errors but it's looking good.

You can forget the Sync speed for BT as throttling or as they like to say trafficshaping renders it meaningless.
Also when you use the BT speedtester It will give you your throughput without the throttling applied which makes it look better than it is.
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Same here at my parents house, their on quite a long line and synch speed was about 5.5meg on BT and now it is about 7.5meg on O2. Also no traffic shaping which means they can use Skype at any time of the day without problems (my sister lives in Australia so it's critical for communication).
 
tolien said:
Be and O2 are the same people, so if you can't get one's LLU product you can't get the other - O2 offer a Home Access product which uses BT Wholesale (so should still be better than using BT Retail) but it isn't unlimited or as cheap.
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Be* is totally amazing IMO. Aparently i'm quite far from the exchange but i still get between 14-17MB which translates to downloads of up to about 2MB/Sec :eek:

Latencies however are where Be shines - i get 20's in most COD4 servers and anything between 0-25ms in half life. My service has only gone down once i think and i couldn't be happier with the customer services.
 
I have never noticed that kind of hardcore throttling with BT in 12+ months.

Infact the only reason I'm leaving them is 02/be* are half the price!
 
UK Online are good especially if you are lucky enough to be connected to an exchange with there kit in.
They offer up to 16MB down 1Mb up on the max product.
Same as SKY as they are owned by SKY.

No problems with throttling and capping.
All ports open inbound, handy if you want to host your own web and mail servers. {Not officially allowed of course but they don't seem to care}.
 
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