Yes, the P2P shaping is nasty and often targets legitimate traffic by mistake.

Can you show evidence of the FTP shaping? Have you tried multiple threads?

Don't need a VPN on BT

>but i typically get around 4000 Kbit/s during peak times and more outside them
Which VPN?
TIA

It's not just p2p which is being shaped, I can't even get single thread http stuff (downloads, speed tests, TBB test files, etc.) to go faster than around 4Mbps per thread between around 7am and midnight.
The only thing which will push the download speeds right up to maximum are multiple threads (and we're talking 20+ simultaneous threads needed to get full 80Mbps line speed).

In all honesty, if you can get close to 15Mbps+ on ADSL2+ or don't really need the higher upload speed (of FTTC) forget Infinity and stick with ADSL2+.

I'm still reasonably happy because I switched from a very long line which could only do around 4 to 4.5Mbps on ADSL2+.
If I'd have switched from a 16Mbps line I'd be seriously p'eed with BT.

In reply to a post by orly:

In reply to a post by danman7_200:

Peak times torrents are unusable. Roughly 4pm to midnight and all weekend. Dial up speeds or slower.

Except that it isn't throttled at all if you actually set up your torrent client right.

http://i.imgur.com/qO6pN.jpg

Orly... Impressive mate.. Any advice tips on setting up the same torrent client and BT Infinity user ... Cheers !

Rolfy

Install utorrent and change utorrents port to 80 and force encryption on.

Signing up to VM will not help you

Hope you like the congestion.

is it really that easy ? I am tempted to get infinity 2 , but am put off with all this throttling.