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Throttling can be done in two ways. The first is a general throttle on a User's bandwidth. The second is using traffic management gear, to deprioritise certain types of traffic by most ISPs, especially here in the UK.

Internet routing can be affected by whose pipe it is sent out on (basically from London). The Internet itself then routes by many different routes to find the fastest way to transfer the data. If a router goes down in Herndon, for example, the Internet will compensate for that by routing around that in the next fastest way. In reality, the packets get sent by multiple routes.

The ISPs routing can vary from Company to Company and often they use BT equipment. Some are better than others, so that can be a factor but that would affect all traffic and not just a grouping of sites.

Companies like Virgin Media and Pipex are financially struggling and are looking for any which way they can to cut costs and maintain service to 95% of their Customers. Hence, the throttling and traffic management measures.

There are other considerations that can slow things down at ISP level. Internet Service Providers in most countries now log all incoming and outgoing data, downloads and uploads, emails and files transferred, for an unlimited period of time. As of Dec.14th, 2005 the EU Parliament passed a law calling for the European Union ISP's to retain certain records for at least six months. The following data will be saved by ISP's:

* Each website ever visited with time and date stamp
* Each file ever downloaded using FTP or P2P
* A record of every e-mail sent and received, including the e-mail content.
* The name, time, date, etc of every user who chatted with via an Internet Messaging program, including the logs of the chats.
* Each web forum posted on or visited
* Logs of IRC sessions

Also "transparent" caching is often used which can slow down initial page-loads. If yuku has tweaked things so that pages are never cached, they will always suffer this lag with the extra communication used by these caches. Wouldn't it be nice if cache Managers would simply allow yuku never to be cached? Been there, tried that, they won't do it!

Some ISPs take time to compress data and images.

All these are factors in why an ISP may slow things down.

Australia is mentioned. It's almost like they are at the end of the Earth there. From memory, Australia is quite poorly served by the Internet - maybe this has improved - and a lot of the ISPs there use software caches. If people are losing their connectivity to yuku there as a result of a push, I would suspect it may be caching related.

http://www.virginmedia.co...lp/traffic-management.php

I think most "unlimited" ISPs in the UK use throttling. Less likely that a capped service will but it is an area that is not always up front.

Top 10 in the UK: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/top10.php

At random I picked ICUK. I have used them in the past and couldn't fault them. They have always been pretty straight and I find no mention of throttling on their website. It infers that they don't.

http://www.icukhosting.co.uk/internet_home.asp