Slow Speeds

Slow speeds at certain times of the day is normally caused by what is known as Contention this is basically the amount of people trying to access services at the same time (peak times). Due to competition rules, BT in agreement with the government regulator (Ofcom) has opened up access to all of their telephone exchanges. At this moment in time there is a rapid drive by Internet Service Providers to install their own Broadband equipment thus routing customers through their equipment and not BT Wholesale's. Now that The ISP's have control of their own virtual networks they can the dictate their speeds, cap downloads, set bandwidth restrictions etc.