Uproar as Australian ISP selectively cuts download speeds
Users of Australian internet service provider Exetel are up in arms after learning their download speeds between noon and midnight each day will be cut by half under certain applications.
According to a post by Exetel on its own user help forum, the speed cut will come into force "approximately" from mid-November, and will only affect peer-to-peer (P2P) applications.
"From mid November, approximately, Exetel will restrict the amount of bandwidth it provides to P2P traffic to approximately 50% of what all aggregated users of P2P protocols could, theoretically, use during the period 12 noon to 12 midnight each day," read the forum post, which has since been edited by Exetel.
