P2P Throttling with BT Infinity 2 76mb

For about a week I have experienced significant P2P throttling with my BT Infinity 2, daytime and nighttime (all hours from what i can see). I am an IT pro so over the last couple of days I have gone through checks internally and am confident it is nothing my end (changed test machines, changed router, changed software checked cabling). Typically the P2P software will max out my connection with sufficient seeds - I always perform tests using well known fantasy TV show as they are so widely shared world wide, but also test with legit content that ISP's and anti p2p companies would not target. The test results are the same.

Over the last six months my general downloads speeds have significantly dropped, according to my Sam Knows box results below around June 30th there was a significant drop but also a general trend since.:

SamKnows, download (combined) 6 months Analysis

I would hazard a guess that local network admins at BT have implemented this to try to address bandwidth issues to prevent customers who are approaching the threshold for not receiving the advertised product/service.

1) Has anyone else seem similar in similar conditions?
2) Am I correct in thinking that BT promised customers that throttling/traffic shaping was a thing of the past and they no longer did that?
3) Are there hard and fast bandwidth limits with which customers can challenge/leave their ISP if they not receiving the advertised service, or is that only for ADSL?

Post deleted by mcompton69

Edited by deleted (Sat 21-Oct-17 12:48:18)

new TB speed test

The hub is connected at what speeds?

Try one of the linux distros which are widely shared they should max the speed. Download 2 or 3 at once if on 76mbps: https://www.kali.org/downloads/

To confirm, BT do not throttle peer to peer, period.

What are you syncing at?

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sat 21-Oct-17 13:01:02)

His sig shows sync of 80/20

Try replacing the Hume hub 5 with a 3rd party modem/router

Currently Syncing at 67 down, 17.5 up

Neglected to add in op, my p2p speeds are >1mb. So whilst my sync rates have dropped - and perfectly correlate with my general download speeds - They do not account for the p2p speeds.

So this is two issues:

1) My sync rates and therefore overall performance has reduced by 15-20%
2) p2p unusable.

Edited by deleted (Sat 21-Oct-17 13:20:20)

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Try replacing the Hume hub 5 with a 3rd party modem/router

I dont use a BT hub, i tested with it to confirm its not the cause, but I use a TD-W9980

Can you try the 3 linix distros I posted. Still slow?

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

His sig shows sync of 80/20

Signatures go out of date, especially when cross-talk etc kicks in. I had noticed it, but likewise noted speedtests indicated slower sync.

Note the drop here:
https://imgur.com/a/7MZOE

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sat 21-Oct-17 13:29:20)

In reply to a post by mcompton69:

I dont use a BT hub, i tested with it to confirm its not the cause, but I use a TD-W9980

So your sig is completely wrong. What's the point?

Maybe the modem in the TD-W9980 is not up to the job

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

In reply to a post by mcompton69:

I dont use a BT hub, i tested with it to confirm its not the cause, but I use a TD-W9980

So your sig is completely wrong. What's the point?

Maybe the modem in the TD-W9980 is not up to the job

??What are you saying, how does my modem affect sig??

In reply to a post by mcompton69:

I dont use a BT hub, i tested with it to confirm its not the cause

Is that a HH5A or HH5B?

What cabinet are you connected to, ECI or Huawei?

Oh right, i see. Yes my sig is out of date, i will delete it as it goes out of date as soon as i write it.

Read the content of my posts, they are up to date obviously..........

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Can you try the 3 linix distros I posted. Still slow?

These are speeds using Ubuntu downloads

Ubuntu downloads

Going out, back sunday, will check back then.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

What cabinet are you connected to, ECI or Huawei?

ECI i am led to believe

So the modem chipset matches the cabinet, so no advantage to be gained there.

No such throttling here. Infinity 2 currently synced 78.57 Mbps down and I regularly see 8MB/s or better.

Your reduction in speeds is quite possibly due to new users and a resulting increase in cross-talk.

Link will show the Downstream Handback Threshold for your line. Mine is 67Mbps. If you sync lower than the handback threshold you should be able to cancel your contract without penalty.

Try out a different torrent program just to rule that out

Or a different torrent from another source the kali for me was not maxing out my connect, where as several other will max it