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How to prevent ISP throttling?Hello, I have an ISP (Virigin Media) who runs a throttling policy. They throttle the top 5% downloader's bandwidth by 50% between 16:00 and 00:00. They call this 'unlimited' broadband but in practice this means when downloading at full speed for more than 30-60 minutes my connection drops by 50%. I want to prevent this by throttling myself between these hours (to stay away from the top 5%) and would like to know what the best method is. Can I use a traffic shaper or are there congestion/queing methods for solving this? Sven Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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How to prevent ISP
Some download programs allow you to do throttling, but if you have multiple machines or don't like using the command line all the time, you can install any number of shaping tools on a dedicated machine.
apt-cache search shaping
These days when ISPs say "unlimited broadband" what they mean is that your waiting time for a download becomes unlimited.
Re: How to prevent ISP
I'm using a business voip service and I need my broadband connection to be as fast as the provider told me it would be. It's not. Is there something I can do or is it my provider's fault?