Sky Broadband limiting web speed 6pm - 12pm?

[ncrn]

I'm staying with my parents for a couple of months as its summer and I have nothing to do at uni. They have recently switched to sky broadband which is really good, that is until you reach 6 o'clock when the speed will drop from around 500KB/s to 50KB/s. Which is a very noticeable difference and it means that I can't use youtube or download items or really do anything useful on the internet.

Is this standard for sky broadband or are they dicking about with the connection to help "ease" the strain on their servers? If so would calling them perhaps stop them from doing this? It is really starting to get old now.

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[steve32]

strange my sky broadband connection is ok at those times, its a 8meg connection and im always downloading from live and its kept the same speed through out the day/night
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[Drew]

Is it sky LLU broadband, or the non LLU £17 per month broadband?

When we have the Sky non LLU broadband, speeds use to really drop around 5-7pm. Now on the LLU version, don't have the same problems.

[Cannon]

No problems on evening speed here either on LLU.

Problems however with the new usage allowances which are now wank compared to before.
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[ncrn]

Might sound like a daft question but what does LLU stand for?
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[Cannon]

Local Loop Unbundling

Basically Sky and others route their broadband through the BT exchange using thie rown equipment
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[JonB]

my parents and my fiancee's parents are both on non-LLU sky BB and the speed drops from about 4pm til 11pm. It almost renders the internet unusable. It is awful. Which is why both are looking for new providers.
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[andypart]

I am with talktalk and experience similar problems, its frustrating as I do a lot of online gaming on xbox360.

Nothing worse than getting a low signal when your trying to shoot the hell out of people, only to find you have not even fired a shot on others killcams

Moving to plus net as they are supposed to be good in general and for gaming but downside is its not free