Do Plusnet throttle Bittorent.

I used to be on Metronet but recently swapped over to Plusnet. I tend to use Bittorent a fair bit to download "stuff" with no problems at all. However now iv'e swapped over to Plusnet I get really bad download speeds with Bittorent, especially in the evening, I mean sometimes it basically grinds to a halt!, argh!

Bittorrent is managed across our products, yes. If you're on one of the new product set (Value, Unlimited or Plusnet Pro) then have a look here for the expected speeds: http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadb...

If you're on a BBYW package have a look here: http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/products/archi...

Hope those links help.

Yes they do - and I have reason to believe they are blocking the protocol completely during the evenings at times. I even have problem with p2p uploads - which according to the traffic management plan should not be traffic shaped at all.

I have logged a fault and awaiting Plusnet to look into this.

In the meantime, try disconnecting and reconnecting to shift onto another gateway and regularly changing the ports your torrent client is using.

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There's little point changing ports. We dont block ports, we manage bit torrent by signature, header and dif services using intelligent traffic management to ensure that p2p traffic doesnt have a negative impact on time sensitive traffic. It will be impacted more heavily during peak times as the info Chris linked to indicates.