ADSL Traffic management

[smeagoly1]

In the same boat now, had the upto 8Meg package for 8 weeks plus.

At first briliant, then after the ten day testing period it's been downhill faster than by kids gocart. I'd rather have hot pokers in my eyes than use the service now.
I never expected to get 8meg, but would settle for steady lowish ping and no disconections! Not having a reboot 4 times an hour in peak times.
Not been able to game for over 5 weeks now! Downloads stuck at 70kbs or a lot lower and a max of 140kbs in the middle of the morning. Lowest Ping i ever recorded was 137ms. Average 200 plus. In the ten day period it averaged 47ms, roughly constantly. Max download rate i ever got was 1.9meg from the gamefiles site, at 03:00 in the morning.

Line antenuation forced at between 2000 kbs and 2400kbs, "BT Line" yet it's been set at 7000kbs on friday april 11th at 20:00, for an hour then back down to 2200kbs. This is what I can't understand, It has been at the high end...once. So should be able to stay there or thereabouts.
This during periods of no downloading for a week or so!

So someone is having a laugh bigtime.

Might just have to go down the road of the OP and see if there is a way of getting out of a contract that doesn't even come close now to doing what I pay for.

[ceedee]

Originally Posted by CrowmanUK

I got connected with BE on the unlimited connection yesterday and what an improvement it is, all my in game lag problems have gone away and this is the result of my speedtest

Woooohoooo

Very pleased that you 'got away' successfully.

[CrowmanUK]

Cheers Ceedee, only been a day so far but it puts me in mind of Blueyonder in the good old days, internet that works... ahhh happy days

[Bigpoppa]

ive been in this boat since feb......ive been hitting walls for months now, trying to get them to disconnect me.

i have followed your route and complained to the ISPA.....see what happens

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by CrowmanUK

Oh joy of joys, just spoke to tech support again and pulled up the FAQ for the fair use policy and the swines have changed it! It now reads

For the small number of customers who are in the top 5% of heaviest users, our traffic management solution will temporarily set download speeds to no lower than 80Kbit/s.

So they've moved the goalposts without telling anybody, thanks a bloody bunch VM!

How on earth can any ISP justify these dark ages speeds in this day an age, thats less than a tenth of a MB, its totally ridiculous, add to that its for an entire week, who would want VMs adsl service of "unlimited downloads"

[CrowmanUK]

The only thing I can think is they really down want any adsl customers.