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    BT Throttling My BB

    Using uTorrent with a BT unlimited connection for almost 6 months and have good d/l speeds up to 300kbs but recently I only get max of 30kbs. I don't regularly d/l torrents so I'm nowhere near any fair usage policy.

    Are BT throttling all torrents d/l or is this another problem?

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    BT will throttle torrents to about 20-30kb/s from about noon til midnight(took me 4 hours to get a 100meg COH patch yesterday afternoon). From my experience it doesn't seem linked to usage. I was offline for a month not long ago due to a graphics card exploding. Speeds were identical right after coming back. When I couldn't have been anywhere near bandwidth limits.

    Speeds normally return to full at almost exactly midnight for me. Not much you can do about it, at least not without money being involved. Normal web browsing and download speeds seems to be on a different system. I've sat a couple of times getting full speed from a direct download when uT could only manage low double digits. I'm assuming bittorrent is a blanket thing and normal throttling for high usage is handled separately.

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    BT have used "traffic management" for a while now. IIRC even encryting the torrent rraffic doesn't work. I used to experience the same thing. "Normal" hours my torrent download speed would be around 10kb/s, but come 2AM and my speeds would return to normal (back then 850 kb/s).

    It's not the major reason I moved from BT to Be*, but it was one of the major factors.

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    Nope encryption doesn't affect the throttling, tried that a while back myself. Be* isn't an option for me unfortunately

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    Oh, I always thought my speeds were being throttled down but was never sure.

    Getting a flat in summer. Whats the best ISP to get?

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    Quote Originally Posted by Singh400 View Post
    BT have used "traffic management" for a while now. IIRC even encryting the torrent rraffic doesn't work. I used to experience the same thing. "Normal" hours my torrent download speed would be around 10kb/s, but come 2AM and my speeds would return to normal (back then 850 kb/s).

    It's not the major reason I moved from BT to Be*, but it was one of the major factors.
    I have had good speeds of nearly 300kbs during normal office hours but it is just a recent thing this last month.

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    Quote Originally Posted by Infinite View Post
    Getting a flat in summer. Whats the best ISP to get?
    Be* without a doubt.

    Quote Originally Posted by thejimbo View Post
    I have had good speeds of nearly 300kbs during normal office hours but it is just a recent thing this last month.
    Then you were one of the lucky ones. Not any more

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    Thing is how do you know whether you are being throttled. I mean could be the file you are getting isn't being shared as much as those times. Unless it's a regular pattern.

    If your HTTP download speed is fine than it could be that BT are throttling your torrent connections.

    Switch ISP I say.

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    I've had the same behaviour for over a year. My example from yesterday was direct from Relic with web seeds. It's definitely throttling.

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    My HTTP d/l speeds are fine Steam even got up to 450kbs while torrents wont get over 30kbs ever with over 100 connected peers. Only problem is I get the BB for free so don't really want to switch I'll just have to put up with it.

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    Quote Originally Posted by thejimbo View Post
    My HTTP d/l speeds are fine Steam even got up to 450kbs while torrents wont get over 30kbs ever with over 100 connected peers. Only problem is I get the BB for free so don't really want to switch I'll just have to put up with it.
    Well then yeah it looks like they're throttling you, but like you said it's free so it's all good

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    Quote Originally Posted by moogle View Post
    Thing is how do you know whether you are being throttled. I mean could be the file you are getting isn't being shared as much as those times. Unless it's a regular pattern.

    If your HTTP download speed is fine than it could be that BT are throttling your torrent connections.

    Switch ISP I say.
    Because if you download the latest build of Slackware (I think it's called) via torrent you'll see that there are plenty of seeds - dedicate boxes to seed (seed boxes ) but your download speed is still <10kb/s.

    More proof is if you leech a big from download.microsoft.com and see via http:// that your speeds are normal and unthrottled.

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    Quote Originally Posted by Singh400 View Post
    Because if you download the latest build of Slackware (I think it's called) via torrent you'll see that there are plenty of seeds - dedicate boxes to seed (seed boxes ) but your download speed is still <10kb/s.

    More proof is if you leech a big from download.microsoft.com and see via http:// that your speeds are normal and unthrottled.
    Was just making sure his method of singling out torrent throttling was thorough
    Not like the usual types who'd just assume that when their torrents aren't downloading fast.

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    Re: BT Throttling My BB

    ISPs need to invest more money in tech to improve capacity and stop messing around offering high speeds to later throttling people. However I agree in some kind of limitation to users that spend hours every day downloading.

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    Quote Originally Posted by matadorluis View Post
    ISPs need to invest more money in tech to improve capacity and stop messing around offering high speeds to later throttling people. However I agree in some kind of limitation to users that spend hours every day downloading.
    I don't think there should be any limitation. If they advertise unlimited services they should provide unlimited.

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