Bandwidth being throttled during the day ?
Have you checked the status of the exchange? It sounds as if your problem could be exchange contention. If that is the case things are very unlikely to improve if you switch to another ISP using BT's intrastructure, instead you should only look at LLU providers. You can find out what LLU is available at you exchange from Sam Knows.
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To not sound like Victor Meldrew "I don't believe it!"
I would hope that by then, the internet just wouldn't be anything near what it is now, we should be teleporting about, firewire socket implants, wi-fi built into our optic-nerves, and living on Mars or beyond!
This country is so backwards it's almost 3rd world!
As for the money that goes through the hands of BT, they should stop paying stupid top exec. wages, forget the share holders, stop disposing of ex BT staff cast offs onto half decent ISP's and actually get the infrastructure sorted once and for all, for every area, 8Mb minimum, no more download caps, or usage caps, just decent, always on, always working, broadband! Might even get happy customers then!
really is a mess!Where's the Internet Fairy Godmother when you need her?
Quote from: BorgWales I don't like this Midnight till dawn thing either. Most ppl are in bed then. Its a con
........it's really because most Interneters are nocturnal
Also for the vast majority of surfers, shoppers, facebookers, tweeties etc. Plusnut is pretty much fine, on the Value package anyway-ish - sort of, well not quite, depends! Shouldn't have to be this way - but it is
Really is all BT's fault! Or should we blame NTHell getting taken over by Virgin, as 100% of the UK could have been on fibre then!?
Pretty much, then you get the transatlantic peak users on, which then drags the Internet down even further. It is all just one big traffic problem, locally for ISP users, and then globably for the gateways and exchanges, throw in a little issue at LINX (London Internet Exchange Ltd) and traffic can really be on a go slow - used to be a live stat page for them, but can't find it
However, most large downloaders will use between 2am and 7am - UK traffic is lighter, depending where you surf, so for the hardcore netter, it makes sense, but the normal joe netter, it makes no sense, as sleep comes first, but then you never get to use your 'free usage'.
Fair for some not for others, maybe PN need to introduce a few more choices for folk?
However, most large downloaders will use between 2am and 7am - UK traffic is lighter, depending where you surf, so for the hardcore netter, it makes sense, but the normal joe netter, it makes no sense, as sleep comes first, but then you never get to use your 'free usage'.
Fair for some not for others, maybe PN need to introduce a few more choices for folk?
This is getting stupid now.
because most PN customers won't have a chance in hell of ever being able to download that in such a short period of time;D Sorry, still feeling sore over my saga with BT
Quote You can download 100+Gb off peak easily and PN won't say a word
Maybe PN should think about something else, charge people for what they connect at - so the max you pay for 8Mb is what we all pay now, but if you connect at 1.16Mb you only pay for that amount? Could be an interesting concept?
