No doubt the truth rests somewhere in between, yet this is all relatively old news now. However by way of an update, it's also emerged that BT Retail was busy adopting a new traffic shaping / management technology at the same time as the problems were occurring:

Mar 16, 2017 BT traffic shaping, not just P2P :: BT Broadband :: think Glasnost still reported shaping on port 6881. bt com still reported me on the old package. Yesterday signed up to bt cloud to do test and got 50 gig space, but was then told by someone on bt's forums everyone gets 50 gig cloud even when not recontracting. Noticed yesterday also my order (which showed as completed) said the old package name. Traffic shaping on BT broadband. - Cable Forum Oct 01, 2007

Oct 07, 2009 · Enlightening new broadband performance tests reveal the scale of traffic shaping taking place on BT's broadband network. The Sam Knows Broadband website has been conducting a six-week performance

Glasnost - M-Lab Glasnost attempted to detect whether your Internet service provider (ISP) was performing application-specific traffic shaping. Glasnost allowed a user to test whether an ISP was throttling or blocking email, HTTP, SSH, Flash Video, and P2P applications such as BitTorrent. About traffic prioritisation | Help & Support - Plusnet

Oct 07, 2009 · Enlightening new broadband performance tests reveal the scale of traffic shaping taking place on BT's broadband network. The Sam Knows Broadband website has been conducting a six-week performance

BT says no to traffic shaping. Telco will refrain from degrading other providers' services, claims one of the key executives behind BT's next-generation network Fibre traffic shaping - Plusnet Community BT Sport; Mobile Plusnet Mobile; Sim only deals. Flexible and affordable sim only deals with no contract. Coverage checker. Our network reaches over 99% of the UK, so we've got you covered. Bolt-ons. Low on minutes, data or texts? Just add one of our bolt-ons. Help & support Stay with Sky Broadband or switch to BT Infinity Well a lot of isp's have FUP, throttling and traffic shaping. Sky are one of the few ISP with a generous FUP, don't throttle or traffic shape. So in a sense you can download as much as you want anytime of the day. BT's only Traffic Management is to Shape P2P at peak times. 0. timcox3477 Posts: 146. Forum Member. 29/08/11 - 10:49 #17. How to Detect & Stop 'Throttling' by your Internet