Broadband Speds

How is talktalk in terms of speeds at peak times, do they slow during peak hours?

I've been with TalkTalk for 3 year now and have never seen speeds drop at peak times. Only thing to bear in mind is that their DNS servers can be sluggish at times (for web browsing) however if you use something like OpenDNS or OpenNIC you'll be fine.

i think any speed drops are exchange/backhaul dependent so in general you can only ask others on your exchange. The QoS (or whatever they use) needs to be implemented at the TalkTalk end of the backhaul to have any great effect. The backhaul will be the weakest (lowest bandwidth) link of the TT managed chain, and as such the contention for that bandwidth will be exchange dependent.

some P2P is throttled during peak and especially Sundays on my exchange Bradwell Abbey. I suspect either Baby-Frogmella's exchange has fewer high-bandwidth users, or that the usage pattern is more consistent throughout the day meaning the backhaul can be better matched to the useage without wasting capacity during the off-peak times

TalkTalk dont do any throttling according to their terms and conditions as required by ofcom....

looks like i'm 4 months out of date

http://recombu.com/digital/news/talktalk-broadband-t...

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5866-talktalk-ess...

Sky, by never traffic managing, forced the hand of BT and Talktalk to follow suit.