I've just discovered that my ISP - Freedom to Surf - restricts Torrent and P2P downloads at certain times of the day.

Can anybody recommend an ISP that doesn't?

Blueyonder (telewest or ntl) does, but is a cable service and not BT based, I think most of the premium cost (the expensive ones!) BT based services allow it though.
Try
http://www.broadbandchecker.co.uk/


Cheers

Alex

LOL...sorry, forgot the 'nt at the end of does

[Edited on 20/11/06 by ecosse]

I'm on F2S and use utorrent and I haven't noticed any slowdown. If I'm downloading anything big I set the time to download during the night anyway as we run 2 computers on the connection and it does slow your browsing down.

To be honest Ive never noticed it with NTL. What times are the restrictions on? And how much does it slow it down by?

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Originally posted by greggors84
To be honest Ive never noticed it with NTL. What times are the restrictions on? And how much does it slow it down by?

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Blueyonder works fine for me any time of day

I am with Onetel, they don't have any restrictions.

I have no restrictions and im with Vispa International Ltd they are a BT provider.

They have good customer service but i think i may be paying a bit much for a 500mb connection £19.99 !

Try this in utorrent, worked for me when my isp started throttle my bandwidth at peak times.

preferences - connection - proxy type and select socks5

get a socks 5 ip address and port from http://www.atomintersoft.com/products/alive-proxy/socks5-list


reboot utorrent and see if it work, if not try another socks ip

Tiscali is fine for p2p and torrents...

Steve