so after some heavy MW2'ing for the last few weeks, three days ago the internet for the whole house, all of sudden, became ridiculously slow. it's not great at the best of times, but now it's nigh-on unusable. my guess is that we're being throttled - the modern warfare hosting system is probably something that doesn't sit too well with my ISP when i'm the one hosting, and according to Cherry, BT are an ISP that does some deep package monitoring (i think) and are pretty given to throttling people.
so what's to be done? how do i find out if i'm actually being throttled? and if i am, what can i do about it (other than phoning up BT and threatening to swap)? how long will they throttle me for anyway?
a few things;
- there are other people on the network, but everyone gets the same problem, even if they are the only one using the internet at the time
- i haven't fiddled with anything recently, and i'm certain that i'm not doing anything stupid like leaving a huge file on download - i've checked all computers on the network
- one diagnostic i ran suggested that the client's (that presumably being me) recieve buffer is too low. but because everyone on the network is getting this problem, and that i haven't tweaked anything and that vista supposedly manages this by itsself well enough, i doubt that this is a problem. still, any thoughts?
- strictly no torrents happening anywhere on the network, ever
i can post results of said diagnostic if anyone want a looks. cheers