ISP Under Fire For Throttling 100 Mbps Connections To 64 kbps

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

Im with plusnet and i get charged £1 per GB during 7am-12pm. Off peak though i can download as much as i want so any torrents etc i just let run over night. I normally use between 25 and 35GB a month peak time which is fine with me. The whole capping crap is totally wrong imo. If i want to download a few hundred gig in a day or 2 then i should be able to as long as I pay for it.

Yes some people will get worse speeds due to this but at the end of the day im payin a fair bit more for it so i couldnt care less. If everyone was paying £40 a month for there net then i might feel alittle sympathy.

 

[TheVoice]

Telkom in South Africa used to do the same thing, regardless of what ISP you were actually with. If you breached your 3GB cap (presumably it's increased since I left), you were put onto a shared 64kbps connection, which made international browsing impossible. Fortunately local websites/servers remained at full speed, so email, gaming etc was still possible although made more difficult in games that authenticated with international servers first.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

BT
VIRGIN

Bt are the worst at it

VM 20Mb connection, STM never had any noticeable effect, and yes at times I absolutely raped the connection

 

[Illusion]

The Virgin traffic management isn't half as bad as it seems on paper. I've never noticed myself falling foul of it on 20Mb and I download quite a lot.

When I was on BT I was regularly limited to ridiculous speeds