I never downvoted you. I just gave an educated guess at why it was occurring. Trial by Google search results is never helpful because you only cherry pick the data that supports your hypothesis. For instance I searched for throttling ISP UK and found a comparative study by ISP Traffic Management that stated thus - >>BT Broadband Services
P2P traffic on BT broadband connections are slowed between 4pm and 12pm on weekdays and 9am and 12pm on weekends.While P2P traffic is slowed, no other services - like gaming, newsgroups or VoIP - are subject to any throttling or traffic management and nor are they prioritised. Apart from P2P throttling on its entry-level packages, BT does not shape or alter traffic in any way. ------------- >>Sky Broadband Services
Sky Broadband was for some time unique among the UK’s major ISPs in that it doesn’t apply any kind of traffic management at all, now others are following suit.Nothing is prioritised or de-prioritised at any time of the day or any day of the week, including P2P services like BitTorrent. So when we said at the start of this piece that every ISP has a traffic management policy we weren’t wrong. Sky does have a policy, one which basically says ‘do what thou will’. That still hasn’t stopped it complying with the UK Court Order and blocking The Pirate Bay. ------------- >>TalkTalk Broadband Services
TalkTalk has removed all traffic management from its Essentials and Plus broadband products at all times, including P2P services (although like all the large ISPs some P2P sites are blocked).No type of traffic receives priority over any other, although TalkTalk Plus TV susbcribers will find around 4Mbps of their connection is set reserved for TV when their YouView box is streaming TV, in order to ensure a smooth, high quality picture ------------- REF [http://recombu.com/digital/news/isp-traffic-management-bt-sk...] Helpful enough? :-) |