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(Unverified)Jan 9th 2008 12:26AM
Wow, you guys should think yourself lucky - almost every ISP in the UK is guilty of this kind of practice (I use newsgroups and the throttling is insane sometimes, ie 200KB/s using FTP but 2KB/s using NNTP) - its considered standard practice and none of our regulators seem to have a problem with it.
robotrockJan 9th 2008 12:33AM
I would rather consider yourself unlucky than consider myself lucky.
(Unverified)Jan 9th 2008 5:03AM
Is this really the standard in the UK? I've never experienced it, or herd anyone mention this sort of thing before...
(Unverified)Jan 9th 2008 6:06AM
Yep i'm afraid so, i'm not sure how much it affects bitorrent as I stopped using P2P years ago but they are certainly guilty of it for NNTP traffic. Most ISP's won't admit to it even in the face of evidence proving it or they simply say its 'traffic shaping' but its throttling, you may not notice it depending on how much and when you download but I download almost constantly and noticed it, sometimes if wasn't major, throttling down to 100KB/s etc but sometimes it made it unusable.
Add to this the fact that most ISP's in the UK offer 'unlimited' deals which actually have caps of anywhere between 2GB!!! and 40GB a month (i do about 10GB a day generally), the only ISP i was able to find that wasn't guilty of either of these practices (I tried UKOnline, BT, Bulldog, Tiscali, Eclipse) was Extranet (distributed by www.ukfsn.org) but you pay for the privilege.
(Unverified)Jan 9th 2008 1:12PM
LOL... ofcourse people dont complain about net throttling @ the UK man... government spies on you all day and you dont care about it.. why would they give you filter free inet?