You've heard of Traffic Management, well they've started a new one now. - Page 4

CrowmanUK · 16-04-2008, 23:07

Ah now its all making sense, BT's acceptable speeds for broadband are 20% of your paid for bandwidth, so if you've got a 1meg connection its still acceptable to only have a 200k download speed so even if they throttle you to 25% of your speed you're still within BT's limits. Very sneaky. If you've got a problem though I'd say get in touch with the ISPA, they do get things done.

http://www.ispa.org.uk/

Web-Junkie · 16-04-2008, 23:14

Why give people USB modems anyway? USB surely cripples the speed you get doesn't it? No wonder people complain about ADSL speeds if they have USB modems!!

BenMcr · 16-04-2008, 23:33

USB 1.1,which is what most ADSL modems have on them, has a supposed maximum of 12Mbits.

So as USB modems are only supplied for 'up to 8Mbit' connections they are usually fine.

Though it is why faster connections (Whether ADSL2+ or cable) come with routers/modems with an ethernet socket

gobbledigook · 18-04-2008, 00:03

hi guys!

i've just been reading this thread with great interest!!

i'm down in bristol on a 20mb service, we have had little problems to be honest and our connection seems to be solid

however.... i've just been catching up on the last episode of Torchwood on iplayer, and toward the end it started playing up! the first thought was that one of my housemates was dowloading porn... but after checking the router logs i was the only person online... so i did a speedtest = 1mg!! YES COUNT IT *1*

i don't truely trust speetest sites for the connection we have as it can take virgin a few minutes to allocate the bandwidth, so i started downloading a chunky file from http://ubuntu.virginmedia.com/releases their own server... i was very surprised to find that after 5 mins the speed had actually decreased!!

so i figured, maybe ther'd been some mainanence and i needed to reboot the modem, after doing this i started to download the same file from the virgin server, it started at about 18.5mb but instantly dropped to under 1mg!!!!

now this is surely BLATENT application management!?!?!?!?!?!?!

has anyone else had issues?

all views welcomed

dan

ceedee · 18-04-2008, 00:40

Hi Dan,
Try rebooting your modem, router and pc and then download 4x files at the same time and see what your total download speed is?