throttling on broadband ?

[jamjar]

Hi All I have been reading about the throttling the BT Infinity & VM etc do on there broadband ,but what i want to know is if there is a way around this ,if so what ?? and i don,t mean go to an isp that doesn,t do this either any views thanks

 

[IxD3ViiLx]

I don't think you can get around it. They throttle you on peak hours if you download to much and usually stays throttled until 12AM. (From what a friend told me!)

 

[jamjar]

I don't think you can get around it. They throttle you on peak hours if you download to much and usually stays throttled until 12AM. (From what a friend told me!)

yeah thats what i thought , but can you use a free VPN Service i,ve seen on the net ?? do they work ?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Throttlign around peak times and from what IO've read recently heavily throttling P2P traffic.

sky Fibre should be out soon with no STM/FUP

 

[IxD3ViiLx]

yeah thats what i thought , but can you use a free VPN Service i,ve seen on the net ?? do they work ?

No idea, sorry.

 

[SeeKified]

You'd need a very high-bandwidth VPN to use anywhere near your line speed anyway on fibre, not sure what that might cost.

 

[jamjar]

You'd need a very high-bandwidth VPN to use anywhere near your line speed anyway on fibre, not sure what that might cost.

yeah thanks i was told that this would work not sure if they just want your money ?
http://www.s4uvpnsurfer.com/

 

[Durzel]

VPN will only stop them throttling specific traffic. If you go over a certain threshold of total bandwidth they may well throttle you for a few hours anyway, and encryption & VPNs won't fix that.

Ultimately your traffic still has to travel over the ISPs network even if it goes via a VPN.