NTL Upgraded speeds ?

[RECOiL™]

We all know NTL can be rather sh*t isp for bandwidth throttling, then only way i have found to get around this, is to open up multiple streams... anyways,

this morning to my shock and disbeleif I was downloading at 2.3mb/sec (i am on the 20mbit bb)
I was downloading from a gbit.uk server, and i know that early morning is the best time to download, but this has never happened before.

Anyone else notice any improvments ?

[Blitzen]

Thing is, wont you be downloading at 0.15mb/sec come 4pm?

[alsenior]

i usually get that at off peak times too. like blitzen said come about 4pm or whatever time the kids get home from school in your area and that will drop significantly

[RECOiL™]

lol...

"and i know that early morning is the best time to download, but this has never happened before."

And just to verify, i am now continuing to receive these good speeds

from france, sweden, norway

[Jay]

that is about right for 20mb - I never got that though (more like 32Kb)

[CrazyMonkey]

I get my full 20MB speeds all the time... Unless i am throttled down, inwhich i generally hit about 0.8mb/s

A friend of mine works as a tech at VM, and he said something like 85% of 20MB users never get the full bandwidth...

Luckily i am in that 15%, and have never ever had any problems.

[RECOiL™]

Crazy Monkey, how much do you download? I know they cap-throttle their "high usage users", and the only way to get around this, is to open up multiple streams.

Tools - Ftp Rush & Azereus (if you really must use torrents lol)

[nwmark]

Recently mine has got worse. Ever since i got 20Mb i always download at 2.22MB/s but recently this has gone down to anywhere between 1.80MB/s and 2.10MB/s

Im still more than happy with the speed as its such a reliable connection, but like everyone else the traffic throttling is the main PITA.

I hate the way the throttle lasts 5 hours no matter when you break the threshold, the throttling should be stopped at 9pm no matter what.

The new day time throttling is a right pain also, as i used to download most of my stuff on a Saturday afternoon, not anymore...

[nwmark]

Crazy Monkey, how much do you download? I know they cap-throttle their "high usage users", and the only way to get around this, is to open up multiple streams.

Tools - Ftp Rush & Azereus (if you really must use torrents lol)

I use NNTP and multiple streams doesnt get around the throttling, i have 8 open streams to two different NNTP servers and as soon as i hit 3.5Gb download im throttled :-(