Does anyone else get throttling?

I never had any issues with Orange in the past, but today I tried to download a couple of torrents, and I am getting a download speed of 0.5kbps, I mean this was at 10am on a Sat morning, I don't download torrents that often, once a month if even so its not that I am a bandwidth hog.

I ran the Glasnost test and got the following.

Is your upload traffic rate limited?

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

Quote:
Is your download traffic rate limited?

Your ISP appears to rate limit your downloads.

Details:
Your ISP appears to rate limit your BitTorrent downloads. In our tests, downloads using control flows achieved up to 6162 Kbps while downloads using BitTorrent achieved up to 59 Kbps.

Your ISP appears to rate limit downloads on port 6881. In our tests, downloads on port 6881 achieved up to 6162 Kbps while downloads on port 58512 achieved up to 59 Kbps.


Does anyone else get this?

Pointless telling you No, as I never use torrents, but Orange does TM P2P.

It is spelt out by Orange they manage their network, BitTorrent downloading is file sharing or peer-to-peer p2p file sharing.

Orange network management
Important services are prioritised over others that are less time-sensitive (like file sharing) at busy times when a lot of people are connected and our network gets very busy. The busy times are typically between 6pm to 11:30pm on weekdays and 5pm to 11:30pm on weekends.

Our priority is to make sure that everyone has a stable access to the internet at all times; this prioritisation improves the quality and speed of broadband for more than 95% of our customers.

http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/b...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

It's restricted whether you are a bandwidth hog or not. It's the type of traffic that's managed not how much you download.

So torrents = throttled.
Standard download via browser = not throttled.

You could only use the broadband for 1 hour a month. This traffic management would still apply.