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Hey guys

I`m with BT for my broadband and have the unlimited downloads package. Now unfortunately BT feel the need to throttle downloads (mainly torrent and peer to peer) during the hours of say 12pm till 12am. Now although I don`t download a lot at all, I work 9 to 5 and struggle to get anything downloaded nowadays. Is there anyway to get around this - some encrytion or something??. I`m all for fair use and everything, I don`t really want to leave my computer on all day you see - but I struggle to get one episode of lost or the like done in a week nowadays.

Anybody`s ISP do the same??

Thanks, Craig

"Dont mention the zed word"

What are you using to download your stuff?

Both uTorrent & Azureus (that I know of) have encryption options which can help to `hide` what the traffic is and as such the ISP usually will not throttle it.

Cheers mate
Bittornado at the moment, as the latest version I`m using does have encryption, however it doesn`t appear to be working to well as Im struggling to get over 15kb/s. willing to give utorrent a chance, if the encryption works better on there.

"Dont mention the zed word"

uTorrent does have an option to shutdown your pc when downloading completes.

You might want to look at an alternative ISP. Plenty of the regulars here reckon that cable is best, but if like me you can`t get cable then probably one of the Entanet resellers would be best. I am with Vivaciti who are excellent. I regularly get well over 500kB/s.

As a test I just started two recent Lost episodes and they were both running at 150+ each.

I am on one of the Office packages as that gives less general contention.

I was with Eclipse for years until they started heavy throttling and poor support. I did try using encryption but it made no noticeable difference.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 13th June 2007, 20:58

I think the main times most ISP`s dont like you downloading in between 6pm and 11pm.

I am with Tiscali and use utorrent and as long as I set it to not download between these times I dont get a problem.

My mate ignored the warnings from Tiscali and 2 or 3 other ISP`s and he ended up with 3kbps downloads. They let him leave at no cost as they were glad to get rid of him!
He`s now with BT and he says he get no problems?