O2

Why are we doing this now? People download a lot more films, TV shows and music now than before. That means there’s a lot more traffic on our network. And that can cause traffic jams at rush hours, just like on real roads. A lot of that traffic comes from peer to peer programs and newsgroups, which some people run on their computers all day and night. That makes it much slower for people trying to do things like email, look at websites or watch things on BBC iPlayer or YouTube in the evening. We want everyone to get the most from their broadband, whatever they use it for. That's why we've introduced a traffic management policy for our Access package on O2 Home Broadband. To help your broadband flow better. Will this slow you down? Actually, it should speed things up for most people. That’s the idea. Your actual connection speed won’t change. It’ll just take longer for peer to peer programs and newsgroup services to download (but only at busy times). Are peer to peer programs and newsgroup services still allowed? Yes. You can still use them, anytime you want. But they’ll work faster when we are not are congested. What are peer to peer and newsgroup services? These are some of the most popular programs. File-sharing:

• BitTorrent
• Blubster
• Gnutella
• KaZaA
  
• WinMX_6688
• WinMX_6699
• eDonkey
• Filetopia
• eDonkey_UDP
• Hotline
• Hotline_1234
• DirectConnect
• GuruGuru
• Soribada
• Soulseek
• Ares
• Rodi
• JoltID
• eMule_UDP
• Waste
• Konspire2b
• ExoSee
• FurthurNet
• MUTE
• GNUnet
• Nodezilla

Newsgroups:

• NNTP
• NNTPS
• TAC_News
• Audio_News
• NTalk
• NetNews
• NAS
• DDI
• Giganews

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