BT are categorically the worst ISP I have ever had in my life. I've had Virgin and Tiscali in the past, hardly the greatest I know but leaps and bounds better than BT.

I'm bang in the middle of central London. You would think on BT's best package (Option 3 - 20mb unlimited) and at £30 a month I would have an internet connection that was not only super fast and reliable but could also make the tea!

It's so far to the contrary it's unbelievable. Their so called "unlimited" broadband option is subject to a draconian fair usage policy.

THE FAIR USAGE POLICY IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO 100GB per month. If you go over 100GB they immediately, universally limit your connection to 2mbps. Downloading HTTP the speeds are shockingly bad, averaging about 150kbps from a variety of servers, local and overseas. Even when I was not limited the speed was averaging around 300kbps with a maximum of 1mbps from one server which is nothing special at all.

WORST OF ALL THEY THROTTLE ALL P2P - I REPEAT AVOID THIS ISP THEY THROTTLE P2P!!! That goes for Bittorrent/Emule or any other file sharing. It's written in to their fair usage policy. The maximum speed I can get with uTorrent, all forwared properly on a torrent with 20,000 plus seeders is 30KBPS - I REPEAT MAX BITTORRENT SPEED IS 30 KBPS!!!! I think after midnight they reduce the P2P throttle but it is still only maxing at about 150KBPS download on a highly seeded torrent.

PLEASE, IF YOU LIKE YOUR P2P AND YOUR SANITY - REJECT, REFUSE, BOYCOT, AVOID THIS AWFUL USELESS RIP OFF ISP!!!!!