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At least when my friend from Birmingham phones me up telling me about a letter he had just received from his ISP (UK Online).
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I had already mentioned he was on UK online.
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To be on 20Mbit he must be on UKOnline LLU - UKOnline don't traffic shape or monitor their LLU network in this manner.
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Did you not read my post??? He
DID receive a letter about heavy usage and that his ports have been reduced to 200kb/s for newsgroups and torrents. His workaround for it is changing ports all the time.
He is one of my best friends and he isn't going to lie to me (lol why would he). He's only been in Birmingham coming up two years after leaving bonny Scotland for Brummieland (& a bird). So please don't try to tell me UK online are not traffic shaping or monitoring their networks.
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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.
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I've spoken to loads of TW employee's and they have all got different information. Some one's will tell you to the nearest month of upgrade's/changes and others have no knowledge at all. I wouldn't rule out traffic shaping yet. At the end of the day Telewest would rather reduce these heavy users than having old and new customers who don't hammer the network getting poor gaming/surfing sessions. It's bad rep for the company. Imagine if you joined from ADSL 8meg and were receiving a lesser service from 2meg more. I think Telewest wants to keep and attract new customers and this hammering of the networks is appearing to be a growing problem.