In reply to a post by orly:

In reply to a post by rivageeza:

1. I've read that p2p traffic is heavily throttled during peak, so even though I would do most downloading overnight, if I did fancy the odd file at tea time then I've got no way of downloading it, other than using VPN which I don't want to do.

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

Yea...it's terrible.

I hardly ever download torrents but when I do I get 3 KB/s at peak time. All other traffic runs at line speed though. I guess I'm in a busy area. It seems how heavily torrents are throttled depends on the network load in your area at the time.

Of course there are ways around the throttleing, but by default expect as low as 3KB/s at peak time in my experience.

They've said they'll probably be offering the 10Mbps upstream for almost as long as they've been selling live FTTC packages.

It finally looks like there is some movement, courtesy of this post on the packages for the FTTP trials. Ignore the stuff on the 80/20 trials, and make sure you read the comments to see the relevence to FTTC upstream.

I've just had infinity option 2 installed.

Bit late to reply but better than not atall I guess.

I sync at the full 40/10 with an attainable rate of 81.

I see the full throghput at peak times with ~15ms pings. I can download at 4.5MByte/ second even at 8PM.

I find at peak times P2P is throttled, but not heavily. I see around 8-12Mbit throughput on P2P during peak hours.

Following this guide:

http://bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/

Has helped no end. Changing bt.transp_disposition to 255 helped the most.

Good luck!

In reply to a post by Corbula:

In reply to a post by orly:

In reply to a post by rivageeza:

1. I've read that p2p traffic is heavily throttled during peak, so even though I would do most downloading overnight, if I did fancy the odd file at tea time then I've got no way of downloading it, other than using VPN which I don't want to do.

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

Yea...it's terrible.

Well that still works out at 22Mb, i would expect it higher than that.

When your line connects at about 25Mbit, like mine, it illustrates the point.

In reply to a post by Croftie:

It seems how heavily torrents are throttled depends on the network load in your area at the time.

BT do not throttle based on geographic areas.

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/10495...
3. Traffic management key facts indicator (Section 2)

In reply to a post by orly:

BT do not throttle based on geographic areas.

I'm not saying they do, I'm saying they throttle based on network load, if that is high in your area you will be throttled.

In reply to a post by Croftie:

In reply to a post by orly:

BT do not throttle based on geographic areas.

I'm not saying they do, I'm saying they throttle based on network load, if that is high in your area you will be throttled.

No, that's not how it works.

It has nothing to do with load in your area. It is done at a national level, once everyone's connection in the country has been aggregated together at Telehouse, their core routers do the traffic managing at a national level before going out via BT's transit providers like Level 3.

Nothing to do with locality or local load whatsoever.

In reply to a post by rivageeza:

2. Upload is capped at 2mb for the time being.

You can pay and extra charge (£2 a month) to uncap it to the full 10mb. Info here.

Edited by Timalay (Sun 05-Feb-12 20:13:45)

In reply to a post by Timalay:

In reply to a post by rivageeza:

2. Upload is capped at 2mb for the time being.

Read somewhere on the plusnet site you can pay and extra charge (£2 a month) to uncap it to the full 10mb

Not yet you can't - product still to be released.

You sound like you know what your talking about, so fair enough.

I just left a ubuntu torrent running and the longer I left it the faster it got, it started at 3KB/s and after 3 mins it was running at 4500 KB/s (full speed). Then I tried a torrent from a private tracker, again started at 3 KB/s but took 8 mins to get up to 500 KB/s. Finally, I enabled encryption and both torrents reached full speed straigh away.