Thread: Odd o2 broadband issue

Thanks for getting back to me! I shall give o2 a ring (thank god for 0800 nunbers) and put this to them. I've mentioned this in the past to them and they fobbed it off on BT's ownership of the equipment at the exchange but that just doesn't sit right with me, I mean i'm only getting 16KBps at the moment in the evening compared to 780KBps at lunch... I shall post an update after I chat to them

That is actually a very bizarre situation because it should be the other way around. O2's BT based Home Access package uses traffic management, though this is usually designed to give other services (web, email etc.) a boost while penalising P2P bandwidth during peak usage times. On the other hand it might be that the P2P client you use is masking its activity with encryption, thus the ISP cannot see it and will not throttle. However this...

It does sound a bit like a weird contention issue do some BT speedtests when its bad and do some from like giganews etc

I had this with Vispa a few years ago, that time it was a BT equipment misconfiguration problem; and it cropped up several times before it was finally hit on the head. I had exactly the same symptoms, excellent P2P and almost unusable internet.

I just registered here after seeing this thread. I recently switched to O2 Broadband Access last week and what a surprise... internet browsing is really pain in the ass... when downloading a file (from MU, rapidshare, etc) I only get an average of 20KBps (160kbps).. always get a buffering from online video streams.. This is not what I am expecting to have. My previous broadband provider is Tiscali and I can get the speed that they promised...