they dont but its sort of sticky, it does have a dhcp lease time, so if you dont stay disconnected too long and reconnect with the same device the ip should stay the same on sky.

With plusnet aside static ip's are a premium on FTTC in this country. But I remain wary of plusnet and am hesitant to jump ship to them. The issue been the high fee's paid just for a migration and new 18 month commit so its not just taking a punt anymore.

ok an update from me. I got an email saying my new service is active (bit confusing as the first email says in a few days time and mods on the BT care forum also say is a 4-5 day turnaround).

I did another test during peak time (Was planned anyway) and this has the same result as earlier unthrottled but throttled on port 6881. Since noone is using 6881 now days I wonder if they have effectively unthrottled everyone anyway (but still doing some snooping as 6881 is slowed down) but not saying so to get people to recontract.

I will do another test after the 5 feb to see if it then says 6881 is unthrottled.

Edited by Chrysalis (Sat 02-Feb-13 22:09:22)

ok now I am getting this, 1 hour before my official changeover date.

Is your upload traffic rate limited?

There is no indication that your ISP rate limits your uploads.

Is your download traffic rate limited?

There is no indication that your ISP rate limits your downloads

That's exactly what I get and I have not ordered the upgrade. Torrents are running at full speed at peak time.

Recently torrents are a lot less managed, in fact I'm struggling to find a time where there are.

yeah I think everyone is been changed but they dont want to tell people that.

I am ok recontracting since it reduces my contract length.

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yeah I think everyone is been changed but they dont want to tell people that.
I am ok recontracting since it reduces my contract length.

I've just tried a Glastnost test - and I've no plans to recontract.

Is your upload traffic rate limited?

Your ISP appears to rate limit your uploads.

Details:

* Your ISP appears to rate limit your BitTorrent uploads. In our tests, uploads using control flows achieved up to 8874 Kbps while uploads using BitTorrent achieved up to 987 Kbps.

* Your ISP appears to rate limit uploads on port 6881. In our tests, uploads on port 6881 achieved up to 8874 Kbps while uploads on port 56179 achieved up to 994 Kbps.
Is your download traffic rate limited?

There is no indication that your ISP rate limits your downloads.

well it was only a guess, some people reported it been removed without a recontract.

I think what may have happened instead is just down to how BT have different strictness of throttling for different areas and maybe those in soft areas assumed they have had it removed. I probably jumped the gun a bit then on that info, sorry.

yeah see my last post also.

it seeems from your post your area has barely any throttling anyway so would be hard to notice if the policy has changed or not.

my area had upload throttled 24/7 and download throttled at a guess 6-8 hours a day.

however when I did a test before ordering the recontract my upload throttle was already removed on the non port 6881 test which was the first time I had seen it not in effect.

Does anyone know if there is any need to reconnect the router to see the benefits?

Clearly, local time changes to those throttled happen without any reconnection,
but is the recognition of an unthrottled connection also automatic?

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well it was only a guess, some people reported it been removed without a recontract.

I think what may have happened instead is just down to how BT have different strictness of throttling for different areas and maybe those in soft areas assumed they have had it removed. I probably jumped the gun a bit then on that info, sorry.

Yeah, no problem. That would make sense its down to area utilisation. Doesn't bother me.

my connection didnt recconect.

Others reported theirs did tho, but that may have been coincidence.