A friend of mine is on a generic crappy ISP, he isn't a big downloader and uses maybe ½ of his 30gig a month limit on average, but is traffic shaped 24/7, making it impossible to use his connection for say browsing while something is downloading.

He rang up and complained about it and the muppet on the phone talked him into upgrading his package (new contract of course) and promised this would help! of course it didn't and he is still traffic shaped.

Awhile back when I was with Pipex they secretly introduced traffic shaping during peak times, but made a mess of it and it was on 24/7.

 I got round it by using this VPN  http://www.secureix.com/ which got my speed up from 20 KBs to over 100KBs, but the bandwidth limit is to low now on the free account to make it worth using

Anybody any suggestions???

Cheers

Never mind they throttle VPN as well  

Basically, youre screwed. Any encrypted traffic (or traffic running on a non-standard port) will get worse traffic shaping applied than it would have if it wasnt messed with in the first place. My advice would be to write a formal letter of complaint stating that you were mis-sold the package and ask for a MAC code with no penalty.

I'm not screwed, I'm not that dumb

But I will pass on what you suggested

Plus.net done this a while back and it went all rubbish.

Quote from: sdpPlus.net done this a while back and it went all rubbish.

Not really... Other ISPs buy their Ellacoya setup. These days, everyone *has* to traffic shape in some form or other. At least PlusNet are totally open and honest about what they do and give customers the opportunity to buy completely un-shaped (and in fact prioritised) bandwidth.

Quote from: MaldonadoThese days, everyone *has* to traffic shape in some form or other

Entanet and there resellers don't traffic shape at all.

Quote from: MaldonadoThese days, everyone *has* to traffic shape in some form or other.

O2/Bethere dont.  Nor do sky apart from their well publicised bandwidth caps.  TalkTalk for all their crappiness only slow you down at the 40Gb cap, and dont actually shape the traffic.  Plus point with TalkTalk is that if you accidentally get a non-standard profile you dont get capped at all.

Fair enough.

(Im with Be anyway!)