I'm on 14 down and 0.9 up and I'm more than happy with my speeds.

I'm on adsl and get 13M.

Mostly i use my vpn, my throughput varies from 35k to 75k on the 1Gb test file on this site

if I do not use my vpn I get 1.4Mb.

Congestion would throttle both equally.

It could be the vpn provider, and have tried other countries but the all have the same speed. To be honest every time there is a slight issue the provider informs people in advance, or if that is not possible, at the time.

While I am not against the principle of traffic management as it enables fairer sharing of bandwidth, i am not in favour of being cut off and letting someone else have all of my bandwidth.

I must say p2p downloads for me seem to be much slower since just before christmas I think. I'm on fibre unlimited and use to get around 7MB/s - 8MB/s but for a while now it's more like 3MB/s at most.

Chrome seems to be very slow and unresponsive as well but I think that's chrome fault since the update. Can't find a way to downgrade that though unfortunately.

Try a different browser?

Yes, like I say I think there is an issue with the latest version of Chrome.

But as I mentioned p2p has been slower for a while like the OP stated which is a different issue.

I was wondering if there are two problems though. Some slowdown as before, but much worse since the Chrome update. That's why I suggested trying a different one. Just to see.

It's two different issues as firefox is fine, just annoys me that chrome has gone pair shaped with the update and can't get the old one back.

When you say Firefox is fine, do you mean the 7-8MBps you used to have, or lower but still well above the Chrome 3MBps?

Crossed wires, the 7MB-8MB I was talking about was for p2p (uTorrent) not the browser which seems to have plummeted over the last month which I think is due to a change in the traffic management.

The chrome issue I feel is different, it seems slow to respond but I've just done a test download using the files on here (the 512mb file) which averaged at around 3MB/s - 4MB/s not the usual 8MB/s.

I don't know if this is related to p2p aspects (seems unlikely), but a suggestion on Chrome slowness is to remove the Hardware Acceleration option.
http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/a-quick-fix-for-your-s...

My Chrome was still pretty snappy anyway (new machine recently after 6 years), but I think this may have helped a tiny bit.
Seems pretty odd, but several others claim it helped, so worth a try ....