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ilovethemonkeyhead

2:36 PM on 2 July, 2008

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i miss the days when ISP's were like postmen: they delivered your letters and never took a peak inside, no matter how appealing it looked to them. now we have ISP's left, right and centre taking looks into what people are doing then running off to some "higher authority" or capping u/d speeds whenever someone appears to do something they reckon is wrong (like, as mentioned, when i want to use iPlayer to catch up on doctor who)

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BarryWard

2:42 PM on 2 July, 2008

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Haha. Funnily enough, I have just left Virgin for O2, and it was well worth it, even though I had to install a BT line too. I got FED UP with my speed constantly been throttled to a quarter (4meg down to 1). The last time it happened was when I just wanted to rent a film off iTunes. They are over a gig in size, and the download went fine for the first half. Then I got throttled, and the film didn't finish downloading till 12:30am!! And there I am paying £25 per month for this service!!! I am now paying £11 line rental from BT, and £7.50 for 8meg O2 broadband, which is cheaper than Virgins broadband price alone, not counting it's phone line rental!

When I tried to explain to Virgin why I was leaving, they told me all the other ISP's throttle speeds too, which is a complete lie! O2 do no such thing- I am getting what I am paying for all day, every day! And Virgin are to bring out 50meg speed?!! They're a joke.

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Gordon394

3:48 PM on 2 July, 2008

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You both make excellent points. I think the card Virgin has is some areas simply cannot receive fast broadband over DSL due to line lengths. Here Virgin is virtually unchallenged...

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SteveM

4:43 PM on 2 July, 2008

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If you want to know if your ISP is throttling torrent traffic you can use this link. Purely for research purposes of course. Beware, the servers are nearly always busy.

http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/bttest.php

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