BTO, the most popular adsl provider in the uk (if your not familiar with our corrupt telecommunications infrastructure they basically own a monopoly over everything) used traffic shaping on several ports used for file sharing programs. This meant that alot of people dropped from 50k/sec+ downloads to around 2k/sec downloads. They of course denied it for a while until enough evidence was gathered (mainly from forums at adslguide.org.uk) and presented to Watchdog among other things. They backed down and as far as i know the traffic shaping measures are no longer implemented. They are slowly upgrading all out home gateways from 34mbps to 155mbps aswell as a few other updates so things are getting better...at £40/month its not particularly cheap (although unfortunately cheapest in the uk if your not one of the lucky few within reach of cable...) and it has to be said that theyre support guys are worse than useless.
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BTO, the most popular adsl provider in the uk (if your not familiar with our corrupt telecommunications infrastructure they basically own a monopoly over everything) used traffic shaping on several ports used for file sharing programs. This meant that alot of people dropped from 50k/sec+ downloads to around 2k/sec downloads. They of course denied it for a while until enough evidence was gathered (mainly from forums at adslguide.org.uk) and presented to Watchdog among other things. They backed down and as far as i know the traffic shaping measures are no longer implemented. They are slowly upgrading all out home gateways from 34mbps to 155mbps aswell as a few other updates so things are getting better...at £40/month its not particularly cheap (although unfortunately cheapest in the uk if your not one of the lucky few within reach of cable...) and it has to be said that theyre support guys are worse than useless. a