Dropbox and US throttling

I have had Infinity for a few weeks and the speed is excellent. But I aslo use Dropbox and have found the connection speed is awful, 350kb or so download (I have 49mb down and 11mb up).
I used speedtest.net to test servers in San Fran and NY and both test showed speeds of only 3mb down and 6mb up.
Can someone explain why BT puts such a huge restriction on traffic from the US? Afterall we are an internationally connected society now.
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I would like to add to this and wasnt sure about the best place to start.
* I have had Infinity for several months and 80/18meg up/down is great
* This is consistent in tests and all seems fine on the numbers unlike others who arent getting what was quoted as a complaint.
However...I too have found dropbox is slower....and crashplan...and Backblaze...and and and others.
At those same exact times I can still perform fantastic speedtests and at those same times I have other links on same account at 3 office and datacentre locations where they are achieving much, much fasters uploads.
Backblaze in particular quote and standby the fact that they do not throttle...my numbers are good so....why do all the legitimate and NON P2P services seems to be restricted ?
Its feel VERY much like anything that could be used and take some bandwidth is being throttled and that defeats the object of having infinity and paying all that money ?
I also had an interesting situation when infinity was down one morning. Call support, couple of tests, indeed an issue...they were about to call someone out when I noticed it was back...something had nudged it. When I then went back to PC, Crashplan had gone from 1Mbps upload to between 8 and 10 Mbps !!! This remained for about roughly two days...then slowly dropped back to be 600kbps to 1Meg.
1) If this was some result of traffic being off while the lines were down...2 days is too long
2) why would it then gradually decrease almost in a controlled manner...some might say the more I uploaded the more I was throttled...sound familiar ?
Not sure anyone will ever answer this honestly but surely some suspicious evidence there ? I dont use P2P for dodgy downloads !
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