Be and O2 accused of bandwidth throttling

[Raptor]

Some subscribers to internet service providers O2 and Be Broadband have reported that service at weekends and in the evenings is being affected by a severe slowdown, resulting in some users finding that they are unable to access their usual sites.

Be Broadband was bought by O2 back in 2006.

This was before they launched their own service on the same ADSL2+ network, and many subscribers are accusing the ISP of throttling the bandwidth.

However, O2 are denying any network interference and state that they do not throttle connection speeds on their network.

The ISP gained 62,800 new customers during the last quarter, which is impressive considering that other ISPs have been showing a downturn.

In addition, these two broadband services are often at the top end of the customer satisfaction surveys.

[Zippeyrude]

interesting.....

most views here suggest that Be speeds are fine

[XBOX4LIFE]

I cancelled my o2 service and I told them my reason for cancelling was the throttled connection @ peak times, they said fine and cancelled, they definatley throttled my connection and let me cancel for that reason

Now back with Be and all is well

[theodotcom]

I've heard about o2 throttling speeds but havent heard of BE doing it yet, have BE been written in the article because they are now owned by o2.

[BertRoot]

doesn't say what they have been throttled to. I have noticed the last two days that newsgroup downloads have dropped from 2.2 MB/s to about 1.3. still pretty fast , i.e 13Mb/s but will see how it pans out.

[beerman]

doesn't say what they have been throttled to. I have noticed the last two days that newsgroup downloads have dropped from 2.2 MB/s to about 1.3. still pretty fast , i.e 13Mb/s but will see how it pans out.

Mine have been fine on astraweb. Still getting 2.4MB/s here. I did notice that Rapishare a few nights ago wouldn't go above 40k/s whereas last night it was back up to its usual 400k/s

[theodotcom]

ahhh beerman you just jogged my memory, come to think of it my rapidshare showed down a couple of nights ago for about an hour or so, I just put it down to the rapidshare servers though.