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Standard User Ahmedg
(committed) Wed 15-Feb-12 19:10:31
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Thinking of joing


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Thinking of joining from Bether and thinking whether its a good move?

How bad is the throttling of certain services?
Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Wed 15-Feb-12 21:13:46
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Define certain services?

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Standard User XRaySpeX
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Thu 16-Feb-12 00:37:35
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Re: Thinking of joing


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Tell me which services are throttled and I'll be certain!

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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 16-Feb-12 07:39:57
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Re: Thinking of joing


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In reply to a post by Ahmedg:
Thinking of joining from Bether and thinking whether its a good move?

How bad is the throttling of certain services?


The only protocol TalkTalk throttle is P2P...everything else runs at line speed 24/7. Even then, the P2P throttling is done on a dynamic basis; it depends on how congested your exchange is at any particular time. If you're not a P2P rapist then you'll be fine on TalkTalk smile
Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 16-Feb-12 08:32:40
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Re: Thinking of joing


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The current version of uTorrent gets around this ................. at the moment.


Useful pages for the OP here:
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Fair Usage Policy
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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 16-Feb-12 14:21:54
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Re: Thinking of joing


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only been with them a week and very happy so far - they handled my switch from plusnet without and problems whatsoever.

Speeds fantastic and not noticed anything being throttled - even my p2p which I only do overnight was at line speed.
Standard User Ahmedg
(committed) Thu 16-Feb-12 22:40:52
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Define certain services?


Very occasional P2P mainly american telly shows that I don't have to wait 12 months.

Other than that BBC IPlayer and the other catch up services, Youtube and occasional downloads from websites.
Standard User Ahmedg
(committed) Thu 16-Feb-12 22:42:54
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Re: Thinking of joing


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In reply to a post by Ahmedg:
Thinking of joining from Bether and thinking whether its a good move?

How bad is the throttling of certain services?


The only protocol TalkTalk throttle is P2P...everything else runs at line speed 24/7. Even then, the P2P throttling is done on a dynamic basis; it depends on how congested your exchange is at any particular time. If you're not a P2P rapist then you'll be fine on TalkTalk smile


In the last 2 months I have only downloaded the latest season of NCIS so not a heavy DL. Other than that is browsing.
Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Thu 16-Feb-12 23:09:53
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Iplayer and youtube and web downloads are not throttled

Only P2P i.e. torrents and then not always, i.e. depends on how much others are doing

Andrew Ferguson, [email protected]
www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk
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Standard User Ahmedg
(committed) Thu 23-Feb-12 19:54:20
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Decided to take the plunge lets see what happens.
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