Is my internet capped?

Zeebedy · 26 Jun 2012 at 22:39

Hey guys,

FOr as long as I can remember my internet has had a speed issue. ONLY with torrents though?

When I try and download from torrent sites I get speeds like 25-50kbps and soon as midnight hits it jumps to around 1.3-1.4mbps?

When DLing from other sites, or to my 360, all is well and fast?

What is going on and should I phone my provider tomorrow and see whats up?

RTJ

Zeebedy · 26 Jun 2012 at 22:41

TalkTalk is the provider.

RTJ

Zeebedy · 26 Jun 2012 at 22:46

Damn!

What should I do, can I break a contract, or need to wait till it finishes? Not long ago I renewed it

RTJ

Zeebedy · 27 Jun 2012 at 00:28

Not too sure about how the forum rules are about this but there are ways you can "hide" what protocols you are performing and make them look like others that don't need to be throttled back.....

Is this legal?

CAn you tell me where I can look into this further?

RTJ

Zeebedy · 30 Jun 2012 at 05:49

If I buy a new router and not use the TalkTalk one anymore, will that help with my capped speeds?

Also CAN I actually do this or do i need to keep my current TT router?

RTJ

Zeebedy · 30 Jun 2012 at 10:43

When I phone they take me through the same rigmarole every time. Checking the router, line etc...can never get anywhere....

RTJ

Zeebedy · 30 Jun 2012 at 10:55

TalkTalk shapes P2P. Get a better provider.

Well, do you think you could help me out with a better ISP? I mean, if I change whats to say that the one does shaping also.

RTJ

Zeebedy · 30 Jun 2012 at 15:54

If so, try throttling your upload to say 4k. Could be saturating bandwidth?

Do you mean manually CAP the upload speeds?

RTJ

Zeebedy · 30 Jun 2012 at 17:43

RTJ

Zeebedy · 30 Jun 2012 at 20:19

Yep
My torrents with talk talk didn't used to be too bad, I used to get a lot of mix tapes which are free and legal but was only throttled slightly

Will give that a go man, see how it goes..

RTJ