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Story: BT says no to traffic shaping
Not all ISPs target P2P as badly as BT
BT never targetted P2P this badly before. We never had any issues at all until April, and upon googling and searching forums like utorrent.com's we found many others in the same boat. There were many furious posts from people who know a good deal more about this than myself, and the net result was that they agree with you; traffic shaping to *some* degree is expected. What's so bad (and disingenuous, almost) about BT's stance is that getting them to admit they aggressively target P2P is like getting blood out of a stone.
In addition, someone on the forums made the excellent point that if an ISP is selling itself on speed, just whom does it expect to attract? Its best customers will be content downloaders - and not all of us either abuse the network with >50GB per month downloads, nor do we necessarily leech illegal material.
BT can't convince me that 8Mb/s is necessary for emailing your grandparents in Australia, booking your hols and buying on eBay - or even watching vids on uTube. That's just blatant nonsense.
There are still ISPs that don't traffic shape or, if they do, only during peak hours. Soon, as public awareness grows, this will become a major selling point and perhaps one day BT may even recant as they haemorrhage more of the early adopters who made broadband such a profitable business for them in the first place (it wasn't a few years ago, if you recall).
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