Goodbye BT, hello O2 :D

[malice19]

Dear ,

We’re making some changes to help your O2 Home Broadband flow better in October ’09.

The internet is busiest between around 8pm and 11pm, when most people are at home and online. This can slow it down for everyone.

To stop that happening, we’ve introduced a traffic management policy for our Access package on O2 Home Broadband.

From now on, we’ll give first priority to those things most people want to do in the evening – like emailing, looking at websites, watching things on sites like BBC iPlayer or YouTube, or using programs like Skype or Messenger.

We’ll give lower priority to peer to peer programs and newsgroup services, find out the details. So you’ll notice them running slower when our network gets busier. We’ve done this because some people use these programs to download large files (like movies and TV shows) all day long. And that slows everything else down.

Didn’t take long for them to be like the rest of the throttling ISP i try to avoid : (

[Blastuk]

Dear ,

We’re making some changes to help your O2 Home Broadband flow better in October ’09.

The internet is busiest between around 8pm and 11pm, when most people are at home and online. This can slow it down for everyone.

To stop that happening, we’ve introduced a traffic management policy for our Access package on O2 Home Broadband.

From now on, we’ll give first priority to those things most people want to do in the evening – like emailing, looking at websites, watching things on sites like BBC iPlayer or YouTube, or using programs like Skype or Messenger.

We’ll give lower priority to peer to peer programs and newsgroup services, find out the details. So you’ll notice them running slower when our network gets busier. We’ve done this because some people use these programs to download large files (like movies and TV shows) all day long. And that slows everything else down.

Didn’t take long for them to be like the rest of the throttling ISP i try to avoid : (

Seems pretty tame, 3 hour window where they use QoS.. everyone should schedule their large downloads for when they sleep anyways...

Not that I agree with what they're doing.

[shadowmaster]

To stop that happening, we’ve introduced a traffic management policy for our Access package on O2 Home Broadband.

I assume this does not include packages within the O2 broadband network (pro, premium, etc)?

[Jay]

oh well.. i don't use P2P anyway

[BUFF]

I assume this does not include packages within the O2 broadband network (pro, premium, etc)?

I'm on LLU & they haven't sent me that email so I'm assuming that's the case.