My thoughts were..

Stay with DSL and get 11Mbps download and 100K upload at all times
OR
Swap to BT infinity and get 60Mbps down and 18Mbps up at all times EXCEPT 100K upload on torrents.
Cost was the same for me, from top package of DSL to top package with Infinity.

If you compare both options I didn't actually lose any speeds, I just gained everything else bar seeding torrents, where I get pretty much the same, expect 100K doesnt swamp my surfing like it did on DSL.

My habits which I took into consideration:
I RDC to my computer alot.
Use an HD camera with Skype to family. This is fantastic now.
Run weekly backups from my NAS box to an FTP Drive on the Internet
Run a minecraft server from the house (again this option opened up once I had infinity)
Run an FTP server for friends/family to use as a dropbox.

Put it this way, not a hope in hell of me returning to ADSL2+. VDSL ftw.

Cheers

Upstream shaping is worse than down.

Plusnet is 18 month contarct as well, thats what don't help when trying to decide to to go with, among other things.

I'm not rushing into buying anything just yet, so would be great for more p2p tests.

I will have to narrow it down and my have to make some compromises.

One thing BT do that PN don't is you get free BT openzone. That would save me using PAYG for broadband on my laptop when I need to. Won't do P2P on that though Lol.

100k is about the max upload I can get with my current connection. Thanks

Edited by deleted (Tue 13-Nov-12 21:54:26)

So many BT customers are saying.

WWWombat made this post about BT terms and maybe he is right on why BT can traffic manage 24/7. http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4090835-re-...

BTW this is the legal KNOPPIX torrent, if members of BT fibre want to test P2P with. Thats if you don't want to use the other torrents.

http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/stats.html?info_has...

Edited by deleted (Tue 13-Nov-12 22:06:29)

In reply to a post by superspeed:

One thing BT do that PN don't is you get free BT openzone.

I think a separate thread asking how useful Openzone is might be a good idea, if it is an significant influencing factor.

The impression I have, (I accept on sketchy evidence), is that in towns and cities there are plenty of "free" wifi areas for the price of a mug of coffee, and outside those areas finding an active one can be not too easy.

I am curious how other infinity customers are seeing little shaping on p2p downloads.

I enabled encryption set to forced in utorrent and my down speeds were sporadic between about 0.5meg/sec and 1meg/sec so about 5-10mbit. about 5pm

now at 7.45pm a repeat test the download speeds are under 2mbit/sec again with encryption set to forced.

so it seems the theories that said the shaping is only heavy on the upload doesnt apply on my connection.