Comments on Mary Blighthouse: Are British Telecom Traffic Shaping?

yes the do they use a system called ellacoya it c...

2009-02-22T18:34:00.000Z

yes the do they use a system called ellacoya it comes on around 3pm and goes off around midnight and its not just p2p it affects also gaming and voip i have been fobbed off by bt for the last six months with no stright answer they know that they are in the wrong but getting an admission is anther thing

Hmm, I'm sure BT are doing this. We're on BT, and ...

2008-12-15T21:41:00.000Z

Hmm, I'm sure BT are doing this. We're on BT, and torrents rarely go over 20kB/s during the day and evening. I think during the early morning however, (i.e. from around 1AM til probably around 6AM), it's perfectly fast, using as much of our supposedly 8MB connection as it can.

Pretty frustrating, and looking to another ISP, probably a smaller company than BT in the future, when our

Restricting P2P and throttling is in effect the sa...

2008-04-16T11:45:00.000+01:00

Restricting P2P and throttling is in effect the same thing. Throttling is where they lower the speeds avalible on certain types of network traffic, and if I was a Network Operator, and wanting to restrict P2P then lowering the speeds of that form of Network Traffic would be the easiest option.

The two statements from BT do not agree with one a...

2008-04-02T13:04:00.000+01:00

The two statements from BT do not agree with one another. Restricting P2P speeds and throttling P2P speeds mean the same thing, don't they?