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Old 31 July 2009, 10:49 PM
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I was just wondering if your ISP could have something in place to slow down torrents? I don't use them that often and it might just be a coincidence, but the few that I have tried to download since changing over to BT have been annoyingly slow.

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Old 31 July 2009, 10:59 PM
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BT throttle download speeds at peak time. Run the torrents over night and they'll fly down!
Old 31 July 2009, 11:07 PM
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Cool. Right now we're talking under 40kb/s. Would they throttle it to that extent?
Old 31 July 2009, 11:10 PM
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Yes. Bar stewards

I'm with Be Broadband - not bandwidth throttling and I get 15mb d/l speed - happy days

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BT throttled me to about 10kb/s. It sped up after 11-12 at night but I got fed up too and moved to Be
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Well it seems you were all spot on: I saw download speeds during the day of well over 100kb/s. Quite a pain in the **** having them throttled at peak times though...I may have to look into this and find out about other ISPs.
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