BT broadband throttled when using torrents?

[seb]

Was good this afternoon and lunchtime but since about 6pm has been dog s**t. Under 10kb/s...

Is it normal for BT to throttle it on peak times? If so, when does the throttling stop? by 10pm i hope!!

 

[Russ.]

Yeah. Very normal. The main reason we left them tbh. Throttling times varied for us anything from 4pm - 1am really.

Were now with 02 broadband. We only pay £9 a month as i have a phone contract with them (Circa £15 if you dont have a phone) for that you get 20mbit, unlimited downloads and ive yet to have my connection throttled

 

[FiXX]

bt throttle EVERYTHING..... more or less ALL the time. Its a f**king joke. Im always synched at 8096kbps with an ip profile of 7000kbps and i get less than 50k/s 99% of the time whereas i used to get 700-800k/s from my ftp constantly. I get full use of my line between 7 am and 9 am...... ridiculous. No point in calling an complaining either as you get some indian dude called "dave" who reads lines from a card then hangs up on you.

 

[Luddite]

bt throttle EVERYTHING..... more or less ALL the time. Its a f**king joke. Im always synched at 8096kbps with an ip profile of 7000kbps and i get less than 50k/s 99% of the time whereas i used to get 700-800k/s from my ftp constantly. I get full use of my line between 7 am and 9 am...... ridiculous. No point in calling an complaining either as you get some indian dude called "dave" who reads lines from a card then hangs up on you.

:lolup: That should be used as the next Bt Broadband Ad slogan.

I've changed to 02 because of it.

 

[Scutch]

AOL do the same using the BT equipment in our local exchange. Main reason why I've switched to Sky.

 

[Revels]

Virgin are even worse.

Early morning downloading FTW!