Thanks so much for that. Out of interest, whereabouts do you live roughly? I live in SW London, is there a way to see what the take up of fibre is like in my area?

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

I find that BT seems to throttle upload to anything between 1Kb/s and 100Kb/s. Usually around 70 Kb/s upload

I've never seen any indication of upload throttling at any time on non-p2p. With appropriate software (eg FileZilla) connected to a decent server (eg SquirrelSave) I see pretty rock solid 17Mbps upload whenever I need it; and I understand I could increase that a little to around 18 maybe if I turned QoS off on my modem. I might have chosen Sky, but they didn't offer the nominal 20Mbps upload when I signed up.

Hmmm ok so I've narrowed it down to Plusnet and BT.

Sky is too expensive for their highest package.

Decisions decisions!!

I live in SW London and torrents are fine, at peak time get at least 1 mega bytes per seconds up and down.

In reply to a post by AJHB:

I live in SW London and torrents are fine, at peak time get at least 1 mega bytes per seconds up and down.

There's so many conflicting reports about this. Is there any reason why some people get throttled, and some not?

FYI - I too am a fellow south londoner, which I assumed would be quite a busy region in the UK with a high uptake of fibre.

And amongst the most likely places to have high MSIL capacity allocated.

Wish I knew what MSIL capacity even meant!

http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/wbc-wbmc-ipsc.html

Edit - Just read my page - it needs to be clarified by saying BT Wholesale rather than BT. Also the bit about O2/Be being able to use it is true, but they don't.

Each ISP has its own MSILs, the loads on Entanet's are shown here.

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 11-Nov-12 13:09:57)

In reply to a post by relax24:

I'm currently with o2 on the 24mbps package but get around 6-7mbps download speed. Been like that for as long as I can remember, the highest I've ever got was 9mbps, so I'm thinking about switching to BT Infinity who have quoted the full speed as I live less than 100m from the cabinet (although I doubt I'll get this speed)

Question is, I'm a heavy p2p user. What are people's experiences with p2p speeds during peak time? I'm not interested in paying extra for a VPN service, and all the other providers like SKY/Plus Net require changing your line rental to them, and I'd quite like to keep my line rental with BT.

I did see a guy on here ("orly" I think his name was) get normal speeds during peaktime with some customization, but was wondering if anyone else had any luck with it? and what the normal speeds were during peak hours. I live in London if that makes any sort of difference?!

Thanks for your help

Yep back when I had Infinity I never had issues with P2P throttling. Can't comment any more as I've emigrated to Canada so obviously I no longer use BT.

In reply to a post by orly:

Yep back when I had Infinity I never had issues with P2P throttling. Can't comment any more as I've emigrated to Canada so obviously I no longer use BT.

Hi . Good to see you still watch this place. How's tricks over there?

Re the OP, looks like he's been rather unlucky . See the thread this post is in.