Been with the BT service for several years and I've never had a problem until a month ago.
I'm on the 8mbit unlimited plan (a fair usage policy does exist although it doesn't stipulate how much afaik). My router reckons its connected around 7.6mbit and I've easily had speeds of 750k a second in the past.
Twice in the past month, my download speeds have been crippled to around 2mbit, although upload remains unaffected (tested on Speedtest.net). The odd thing is that if I'm downloading anything at this time and maxing out this 2mbit restriction, I'm unable to do anything else other than wait for the download to finish - I can't view web pages, MSN/Steam friends can't connect.
This happened once before about 3 weeks ago and it suddenly happened again last night and it's annoying.
Does this sound like I'm being throttled and if so, how would I find out? I've not had an email or anything to suggest so.
Any ideas?
I'm on the 8mbit unlimited plan (a fair usage policy does exist although it doesn't stipulate how much afaik). My router reckons its connected around 7.6mbit and I've easily had speeds of 750k a second in the past.
Twice in the past month, my download speeds have been crippled to around 2mbit, although upload remains unaffected (tested on Speedtest.net). The odd thing is that if I'm downloading anything at this time and maxing out this 2mbit restriction, I'm unable to do anything else other than wait for the download to finish - I can't view web pages, MSN/Steam friends can't connect.
This happened once before about 3 weeks ago and it suddenly happened again last night and it's annoying.
Does this sound like I'm being throttled and if so, how would I find out? I've not had an email or anything to suggest so.
Any ideas?
