Everyone uses traffic management. Its a fact of life. Unless you are paying for a dedicated line, or are peering, then you are going to be managed. Anyone that has a cheap line and says they are not managing it either has shit service, or the ISP is telling porkies.
P2P will always need to be throttled, and has been since pretty much the start of ADSL. If you want to be uploading gigs of data, at high speed then pay for the correct line. don't use consumer lines.
As I pointed out, if you want uncontended connections, peer at an exchange. They are cheap.
Yes BT has a monopoly, but unlike the US they are highly regulated. They can only charge a certain amount for each line(I think ~£4 a month). They cannot stop arbitrary data for business reasons, all resellers have the same SLA.
The BT network is in much better shape than the US, with a thriving reseller market. This means that ADSL is often thrown in for free with TV.
With mobile data, its only vodaphone that do that kind of thing, as they are very keen for you to burn through your data allowance and run up bills.
Also VOIP over 3g is terrible (300ms round trip) by the way :)
P2P will always need to be throttled, and has been since pretty much the start of ADSL. If you want to be uploading gigs of data, at high speed then pay for the correct line. don't use consumer lines.
As I pointed out, if you want uncontended connections, peer at an exchange. They are cheap.
Yes BT has a monopoly, but unlike the US they are highly regulated. They can only charge a certain amount for each line(I think ~£4 a month). They cannot stop arbitrary data for business reasons, all resellers have the same SLA.
The BT network is in much better shape than the US, with a thriving reseller market. This means that ADSL is often thrown in for free with TV.
With mobile data, its only vodaphone that do that kind of thing, as they are very keen for you to burn through your data allowance and run up bills.
Also VOIP over 3g is terrible (300ms round trip) by the way :)