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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I use Orange broadband and lately I am getting alot of throttling in the evenings is anyone else having the same problems? I would like recomendations for a new ISP |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can anyone explain "throttling" and "shaping" in this context? Thought they were more a Fab thing! lmao  "
I'm not an expert, but 'throttling' is a reduction in a connection's speed, usually applied because the particular connection is using a large amount of bandwidth. Shaping is a bit different but similar, but maybe an expert will be along soon! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can anyone explain "throttling" and "shaping" in this context? Thought they were more a Fab thing! lmao
I'm not an expert, but 'throttling' is a reduction in a connection's speed, usually applied because the particular connection is using a large amount of bandwidth. Shaping is a bit different but similar, but maybe an expert will be along soon!"
It must be my mind, but I think that sounds a bit kinky LMAO |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can't fault sky - but was total crap on their connect service but ok since they upgraded our exchange."
Agree with that.I've never had internet probs with Sky. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Don't have Talk Talk as your ISP-They constantly drop speeds."
i thought this was just me that had this prob, what makes it worse they wont help you unless you have talktalk router
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Today completes my 1st year with BT broadband, and although if you look in certain places you'll find plenty people complaining about BT, you'll also find plenty people complaining about other ISPs. I've already signed up for another year!
I really can't complain, don't think I've had to contact customer services at all, I'd previously been with AOL for years and years and the way they were messing about and hiking prices made me join the flood of people leaving them!
And I went from £19.99 a month for barely over 2meg, to 5/6 meg Option 3 + Anytime Calls for £13 a month.
So far, perfectly happy with BT. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm with Orange. 20mb speed, unlimited downloads, line rental and free evening/weekend calls. All for £17.50pm.
However.... as the OP says, they have started throttling p2p/torrents etc from late afternoon til midnight.
I've got 6 months left on my contract then I'm offski ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Orange is fairly poor I do have to say. Basically Orange Broadband is what used to be Tiscali.
With broadband it's very hit and miss. Don't forget that when you pay for a service through a BT line through Sky or Orange etc. You are basically getting the same line capacity that you would get with BT as your ISP is basically a reseller of the BT line (well Openreach if you're going to be fussy). So your connection is still limited by your BT line no matter what. But this is entirely different to cable services offered by Virgin etc. which I'll get to
That's where throttling and shaping make the slight difference. Shaping is basically the ISP slowing you down at certain times of the day to make it much more pleasant for everyone if they have limited resources. Throttling is when you're seriously killing your bandwidth on p2p sites etc. All ISP's do it and it's pretty hard to know who are the main offenders.
I've found Sky haven't been too bad as far as BT line's go (I can't get Virgin cable here). But if you can get Virgin cable then it will be much much faster. The central parts of the Network run on fibre optic but the local ones are still copper so it does slow down there (Virgin also offer BT line as well if you don't have cable so don't be fobbed off). Also there is BT infinity which has fibre optic even at local level but practically no one can get it at the minute (well you can pay for it but you won't be getting fibre)!
Well that was long fabbers |
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