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Author Topic: BT FTTC Traffic shaping FUP  (Read 2974 times)

cliver

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BT FTTC Traffic shaping FUP
« on: September 06, 2016, 06:43:51 PM »

Do BT still apply traffic shaping/rate limiting under their fair usage policy these days on their FTTC products? My contract with TT expires soon and I'm looking at options.
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cliver

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Re: BT FTTC Traffic shaping FUP
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2016, 09:50:13 PM »

This may answer your question:

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/unhappiness/f/4501284-switched-from-sky-to-bt-gone-from-great-to-unuseable.html?fpart=all&vc=1

Hmm, thanks for that psycopomp1, according to their site they don't do traffic shaping any more. User experience would suggest otherwise :-(
Shame the 52Mbps service sounds right up my street.
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Re: BT FTTC Traffic shaping FUP
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2016, 09:55:26 PM »

Do BT still apply traffic shaping/rate limiting under their fair usage policy these days on their FTTC products? My contract with TT expires soon and I'm looking at options.

Was with BT on Infinity 2 for over 4 years (now with Plus) and I can confirm that there was no traffic shaping of any kind applied on my line for the last 3 years that I was with them. They completely abandoned those systems sometime in 2013 if memory serves right.

All the Glasnost tests came back clean.

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/glasnost.php
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Re: BT FTTC Traffic shaping FUP
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2016, 06:59:30 AM »

cliver, TBH if i was looking to move away from TalkTalk Business FTTC I would only consider moving to Vodafone, Sky or AAISP FTTC, thats assuming VF or Sky have their backhaul at your FTTC exchange.

Apparently Vodafone (ex C&W) have multiple 10gb/s links to exchanges they have LLU'd so plenty of capacity and almost zero chance of exchange congestion. They now also give out broadband username and password so free to use your own router as their own router isn't the best. Sky FTTC is also highly rated though they have recently stopped offering their 80/20 Pro service, so no more static IP option available (and better support?). AAISP, well they're arguably the best ISP around obviously not cheap but their prices have come down in recent years eg their 1TB FTTC service (TTB based). IMHO going with any 1 of these 3 will pretty much guarantee you a decent FTTC connection.
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Re: BT FTTC Traffic shaping FUP
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2016, 07:35:43 AM »

Thanks guys. Good advice 😀
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Re: BT FTTC Traffic shaping FUP
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2016, 10:58:00 AM »

Quote from: m1ssed
latency of over 300ms in most FPS games.

That does NOT sound like traffic shaping or network management.   
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