Newsgroup throttled - BT or Virgin doing it?

[houghton cut head]

My broadband is Virgin over a BT line. I am being throttled badly on the evenings and now afternoon on Newsgroups, yet not at all on torrents. Will it be Virgin doing this, or BT who Virgin will be leasing the line from?

Cheers

[ajthemackem]

Virgin I'd assume, wouldn't be in BT's interests.

[alzeebub]

It's the ISP who do the throttling/shaping, so Virgin in your case.

[Town End Farmer Giles]

I’m on Virgin Cable 10Mb, newsgroups generally throttled until 1 a.m. now for me, still get everything I want overnight but I’d love their unlimited to truly mean unlimited.

Sadly I’d be lucky to get 2 megs with anyone else as I’m miles from an exchange.

[Spot]

defo ISP I get highest between 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. with Virgin although you can sneak in the odd hour here and there before they notice
I still manage to d/l over 40GB per night

[the_cyclops]

Never throttled for any p2p and more importantly on NG's on, wait for it, Talk Talk.

[Neb_Safc]

noticed mine doing it today, i download most of mine at work like.

[littlened]

Be broadband man, the best around. been with them over three year and never been throttled.

[Town End Farmer Giles]

Originally Posted by littlened

Be broadband man, the best around. been with them over three year and never been throttled.

Anything other than cable would be crap for me until they upgrade the infrastructure.

[Daydream Believer]

My understanding of the way virgin are doing the throttling is that they're only monitoring the standard ports. My newsgroup provider offer alternative ports & I would guess most others would as well.