ISP With Little To No Throttling ?

Dicehunter · 10 May 2017 at 20:02

So over the past few months I've been getting severe throttling with Virgin Media, I phone up every few weeks, They see something has changed on the line and then set it back to the full speed of 150Mbps.

Then a few days after it gets set back down to 50Mbps so the whole process starts again.

Now recently I download a lot through Origin, Steam, Uplay, GOG and then do lots of Streaming via Netflix so my download sizes are high.

Is there an ISP that doesn't do this annoying throttling where you actually have to phone them up and ask they put the speed back up to the amount you are paying for ?

Hotwired · 10 May 2017 at 20:09

Oddly enough virgin do such a thing as a more expensive package.

http://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broadband/compare.html

Vivid 200 Gamer

Selling point over their regular 200mb arrangement is that they don't limit you.

Was thinking about it as I've been offered 200mb for the same as I'm paying for 100mb but the limit free one would be a bit more.

Dicehunter · 10 May 2017 at 20:12

I'm already spending £40 a month to not get full speed, It's a bit of a cheek to offer no traffic management only for the most expensive packages.

Hotwired · 10 May 2017 at 20:24

Possibly but if it is throttling you due to high downloading you are getting what you signed for.

If its dropping your speed for another reason then its a bad service.

MissChief · 10 May 2017 at 21:21

I thought VM only throttled uploads for heavy users?

ChrisD. · 10 May 2017 at 21:32

Can you get fttc?

jimjamuk · 11 May 2017 at 11:20

Vodafone do not seem to have any throttling - if you can get it

pepp77 · 11 May 2017 at 11:26

No throttling on Sky Fibre Unlimited.

Edit - also as others to the best of my knowledge Virgin do only throttle based on upload usage.

ChrisD. · 11 May 2017 at 11:26

jimjamuk said:
Vodafone do not seem to have any throttling - if you can get it

But you can only use their own router. Same with Sky unless you get your details from a bit of packet sniffing.

pepp77 · 11 May 2017 at 11:31

Nothing wrong with the Sky Hub router. Gives me Wifi coverage across the house and my laptop generally connects at between 500mbps and 800mbps

ChrisD. · 11 May 2017 at 11:32

How much is wrong with it depends on the user and what they want to do with it.

IT Troll · 11 May 2017 at 13:37

There are a few FTTC ISPs which do not traffic shape but then the max you are going to get is 76Mbps. Even then you would have to be close to the cabinet to achieve this.

bledd · 11 May 2017 at 15:26

I've not noticed my plusnet ever being limited. I have around 75Mbps

Glanza · 11 May 2017 at 15:44

Virgin only 'throttle' the upload speed, what your suffering from sounds more like area congestion.

Sp00n · 11 May 2017 at 16:06

Glanza said:
Virgin only 'throttle' the upload speed, what your suffering from sounds more like area congestion.

^

Set up a thinkbroadband monitor to see if you can notice any peak time patterns, this is usually a pretty good indicator of high congestion in your area.

Orcvader · 12 May 2017 at 12:26

Are you sure it's throttling and not congestion issues? With the "fix" being just temporarily giving you more priority?

No throttling at all on BT and Plusnet FTTC.