Originally Posted by Wyvern

So they do what BT do to me; 6pm-11pm I can barely download at all with (if I remember right) non-http applications.

Except Toucan "only let you on 300 hours a month"... Which I'd rank as slightly worse than BT's "often runs really slowly or breaks for an hour".

I've done a bit of research recently (something like a day ago, actually) and I'm switching to either www.ukfsn.org or www.adsl24.co.uk - they use the same wholesale provider hence the identical schemes, but ADSL24 provides its own customer support (although when I emailed about traffic shaping, both replied within 2 and a half minutes explaining that the only form of traffic restriction they use is some kind of gradual decrease at certain peak times if everyone in the pipe is above 96% connection usage...).

So, don't go with toucan - go with ukfsn or adsl24 (both have 9*+/10* on ispreview)