BT Traffic Managed broadband vs. BE Unlimited Broadband

Test performed at 6:51pm on 28th Jan 2010.
For months I have been frustrated by the performance with downloading Flash Player on BT Internet. Today I finally got a chance to test them side by side and record the results.

For your interest, the same test performed earlier in the day at 2:30pm (not peak time) resulted in the full line speed on the BT line. Just in the evening when traffic management kicks in, performance for p2p and (as you see) even legitimate downloads becomes terrible!

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Education

Tags:

• BT Broadband
• BT Internet
• BE Broadband
• bethere
• beunlimited
• btcare.

[icannotgetafreename]

Note to all: Some time in the last 2 months BT or Adobe have solved this issue. Even at peak times the flash player download runs at a sensible speed. Torrents are still limited to about 12kB/sec - even on BT Infinity 40mbps / 10mbps!.

[NielsShoe]

Bt Broadband was awfull but they upgraded me to BT Infinity this week and I get 37Mb download speeds and 15 ping :) Was about to move to virgin cable  but Im better off now with BT.

[icannotgetafreename]

@NielsShoe Good to know that, even during peak times Infinity performs well?

[KinoWoW]

bt is fucking shit and im stuck on contract for 5 more months all i can say is good bye BT the day it runs out.

[Pikalite]

BT got owned. That is all.

[MrDens7]

Erm , im a gamer and i need a really low ping , what internet would u recomment me? I like in the uk, thanks!

[icannotgetafreename]

@UriPlaysMC Depends entirely on line quality and if 21cn is already in your exchange. If you can pop into IRC and retrieve some stats from the router, your potential BE speed can be estimated [if no horriffic line faults exist].

[icannotgetafreename]

@DJSHAUNYB82 o2 use the same "IP Space" as BE. You would need to find a VPN provider (not free) and test it. DDWRT Privacy VPN software MAY work for free.. never used it before though - may just install spyware :D Research first!

[DJSHAUNYB82]

@icannotgetafreename When i do a speedtest it says my isp is Be UNlimited? even though im on o2? Also how would i try a vpn? thanks

[icannotgetafreename]

@DJSHAUNYB82 Don't know as I am over on BE without the traffic management. Migrate to BE maybe? Try using a VPN?

[DJSHAUNYB82]

im on o2, is there any way of getting around traffic management

[XC0MB4TXEV0LV3D]

@icannotgetafreename Thank you.