ALICE Bridé.

[pachapapa]

Last night I disconnected the Alice Sagem Box before retiring to bed.

This morning I reconnected and noted download and upload bandwidth commensurate with an ADSL 2+ connection.

Within 60 seconds the Alice Box had of it's own volition rebooted and reduced the available bandwidth significantly.

The characteristics with time and bandwidth were as follows:

Historique des connexions ADSL

Etat	Date	Débit montant	Débit descendant
	20/02/2011 à 09:31:24	566 kbit/s	12106kbit/s
	20/02/2011 à 09:30:59
	Mise en route	997 kbit/s	23122kbit/s

I consider these figures to indicate a "prima facie" confirmation that Alice are "throttling" the bandwidth of ADSL connections to their subscribers.

I wonder if this apparent restriction of bandwidth is unique to me, to Alice subscribers in general or is indeed a policy exercised by other Internet Service Providers to the detriment of their subscribers.