[James Henry]

Originally Posted by J.D

My friend has a 20meg line and uses his Newsgroups quite often. I think he downloaded 16gb in a 12 or 14 hour peroiod one time and now his ports for p2p and newsgroups has been limited to 200kb/s. The letter stated that he has been limited to the said speed for torrents and Newsgroups.

To be on 20Mbit he must be on UKOnline LLU - UKOnline don't traffic shape or monitor their LLU network in this manner.

Even funnier he phones me back 20 minutes later and claims his brummie missus was at work and one of her colleagues had mentioned that he was with Telewest and downloads all the time (nearly 24/7) and received a similar letter. Funny coincidence 20 minutes after a debate (fancy name for an argument lol)

Possible, Telewest have sent some letters to some customers 'informing' them about upload usage.

I hope this isn't true and Telewest have already put traffic shaping software in the network as this will be a final cutting to go to Bulldog.

Having spoken to a Telewest employee within the last month or so he informs that he isn't aware of any traffic shaping either running or being prepared on the Telewest network.

So am I just listening to too much or is there a bit of truth in what I hear?

You're both listening to too much and not listening enough, if you get my meaning.