BT to end traffic throttling - claims capacity is FAT

wrong headline...

Considering that most people look for the cheapest deal, it stands to reason most people are on the cheaper packages, so the headline should have been 'BT continue to throttle and cap their customers unless you pay more' ???

What I really want is 76 BT Infinity / ipv6 and 8 ipv4 addresses. Dunno who to go with though.

(As long as it costs less than Virgin with all the TV channels and the highest speed broadband (At list prices) I am happy).

Infinity Option 2

Is already unlimited (no "fair usage" policy), just traffic shaped for p2p at peak hours.

Unlimited for how long?

BT have a habit of changing T&Cs at short notice or with little consultation, "free" web space was recently removed from all home users, but that's dented my confidence in using any of their free storage they now apparently offer, not that they're interested in telling me as I'm an existing user.

As customers of BT Vision will be aware, what they say and what they do are entirely different. Just check out the "new" second on any of the on demand services, some of the products there have been "new" for a year.

Until March when Superfast broadband is available and they won't see me for dust.

Seems the rabid bunch are out again

There seems to be a cabal of people who pounce onto forums whenever certain companies (BT, BA, Microsoft etc) are named to pour tales of their issues that have obviously never happened with other providers.

Personally, i've been on BT Infinity for about 6 months and never experienced any throttling / traffic shaping. My average is running at something over 450GB/month, so i'd be as likely a candidate as anyone. I was previously with Be and they were the same (with the exception of their well-known iplayer issues).

I choose to pay £25 a month as I can't see how these £5/£7.50 deals can possibly be unlimited and the providers still make a profit.

The usual tricks

When BT upgraded our exchange from a half megabit to an eight megabit connection they did not tell anyone. This included my ISP that rides on BT wholesale. I had been monitoring SamKnows and rang my ISP to inform them of the speed increase.

The reason was that BT cusomers where paying more for an inferior service. Way to go BT!

Welcome to this century, BT

Here in a small town in Germany, my Internet and phone service of the last 5 years has no limit of any kind and (according to Glasnost at http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php) the ISP does not shape traffic. I pay 25 euros a month for telephone with flat rate national calls and VDSL with a measured 30M down and 10M up. With the wife watching TV and films in Russian all day, we shift about 120Gbytes per month. Oh - there's no 18 month contract - I can cancel at any time with one month's notice.

There is that little bit of small print that says they can change the T&C at anytime without notifying anyone? it must be around here somewhere.

I think i'll stick with my business ISP with it's in house call centre.

bt total unlimited yea right

So they're claiming they can give unlimited broadband without any restrictions yea right even if they did I would still not go back to bt there a joke and a pain to deal with they overcharge for the packages they have. I am happy with the sky's unlimited package for 7.50 hehe though would be nice for a bit more upload something like 5mb but I am sure sky can do something. In terms of my unlimited package I have been fine with it no problems at all just wish it had more upload that's all. As for bt forget them there for rich boys who can't be bothered to shop around for the best or lowest price deals like rich footballers who like to get set up and are away and up and running. I'll never go back to bt ever.

BT are so full of shit.....

"The national telco claimed that its offering would not be hampered by bandwidth issues like the ones that recently crippled BSkyB."

Oh really? So what's the matter with most of (all?) your FTTC enabled exchanges in Leicestershire then? Its not oversubscribed backhaul that's causing peak speeds of under 5Mbps on BT Retail?

BT are totally full of shit. Sky may be tossers but unlike BT they at least admit when they've fucked it up.

Self limiting bandwidth?

A couple of factors working in boradband providers' favour:

Not much mention of contention: if you share bandwidth with 20 other houses that might drops a cap on you, esp if neighbours are heavy users.

As "everyone" seems to be going wireless they begin to find there's wireless congestion as every household is sharing the same small bunch of frequencies - so the reduced service is their own fault, bandwidth delivered to the router is as advertised but to the device it may br limited by your own equipment/lcircumstances.

A friend was thinking of moving to BT and found all the marketing bumph was about the wireless router - she had to specifically ask "does the router have Ethernet ports too?" (BTW: yes)