Is it me or has BT got really slow?

Just sent a complaint to watchdog and ofcom.
BT cannot give users speed of less than 30kbps when they offer a 8meg service! This is unfair, especially when we have to pay 27pounds, which is a fair bit more expensive than other ISPs. You would expect more money = better service!

I advise all affected to send a complaint to: Broadbandsupport at btinternet dot com
This way they know it IS a problem.
 
a lot of BT exchanges are becoming congested now durin peat times. It turns out that BT are maxing out all 50:1 lines so durin peak times your downloads will suffer big time. i'm ment to be on an 8mb package but i only ever get a max of about 3.2mb. after checking with my ISP they said my BT exchance is at its max. Last night i was on less than 2.2mb and downloading at about 30k/sec

"Status: Red"

is exactly what they said. this may explain why a lot of people are getting slow speeds in build up areas where everyone is screaming for BB and sucking all that bandwidth. The problem is theres not many alturnatives, in my area theres no cable.
 
Have got a mate who's on BT, says it's a bit odd atm but his torrents always go slow so :\

By the way maGz your sig is a little too wide, maximum of 75pixels!
 
tchan_4 said:
Torrents always go slow for BT I think, (unless you have a static IP). I don't think you can forward ports on a dynamic IP.
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static/dynamic ip addresses make no difference to torrents whatsoever. bt do throttle sometimes but it's got nothing to with how they dish their ips out. :)

my bt connection is fine most of the time. infact rather oddly, the time i notice it go slow is very late at night (i'm talking stupid oclock here like 3-4am). during peak times it's fine.... :confused: :p
 
tchan_4 said:
Torrents always go slow for BT I think, (unless you have a static IP). I don't think you can forward ports on a dynamic IP.
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No that's wrong. Port forwarding is for allowing inbound connections from the outside world to go from your router onto a PC behind it. What type of IP address you're assigned (ie. static or dynamic) will have absolutely no say in it at all.
 
tchan_4 said:
http://forum.portforward.com/YaBB.cgi?board=Knowledge;action=display;num=1119584531
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to forard a port on your LAN (local area network) your local computer must have a static local IP address. nothing to do with your ISP.

eg..

a private ip range is usaually a class C address of 192.168.0.1/24

if you set your computer to use 192.168.0.2 on your firewall on your router set up port fowarding to sent port 6881 (i think) direct to 192.168.0.2

does that help... or did i just confuse you more ??
 
yes.

because people only ever see your Public IP address. and for torrents to work people need to be able to connect to your computer. Now when someone tryes to connect they will connect to your Public IP which will be your router. Now your router don't know what to do with that connection, so by fowarding a port to your lan ip address (which is never seen by others) your router knows what to do with the connection. which allows people to connect to your computer.

a static IP means your computer wont change its address. Dynamic means it will change and a router can only foward connections to computers with a static IP otherwise it wont be able to find you.
 
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Guess I owe you a thank you :)

We should get back on topic now :S
 
If you're going to quote speedtests on an up to 8Mbps service, it helps if you quote the speed your modem says it's connected at - if it's only connecting at say, 576kbps, you're only going to get the 512kbps profile and your result isn't that bad.
The BT Speedtest (instructions in FAQ I think) should give a value for the current IP profile setting as well, which is useful.

tchan_4 said:
BT cannot give users speed of less than 30kbps when they offer a 8meg service!
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Less than 400 kilobits a second on anything from home2000 upwards (including Max) is considered a fault. Getting that fact through to the support drones at your ISP might be an issue though - BT aren't the only (ADSL) ISP around...

It turns out that BT are maxing out all 50:1 lines
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50:1 doesn't exist (and hasn't for over a year), and if it did you'd be seeing ~144kbps throughput at worst case with an 8Mbps connection.
 
Energize said:
How are companies like uk online allowed to say they have a 33:1 contention ratio then, or do you just mean bt?
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There's nothing stopping any ISP quoting a contention ratio (except it isn't terribly useful).

The 20:1/50:1 sense that used to be applied before (i.e. at the connection from your exchange through the BT Wholesale network) doesn't exist now.
It was replaced by a statement that Max Premium/Office users would get "priority" over non-Premium/Home users.
 
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