Throttling/limiting of Google Drive uploads

BT seem to be throttling or otherwise speed-restricting uploads to Google Drive. I've been testing last night and today and found the following, trying to upload a single 3.5GB file (which Google allows, unlike Microsoft SkyDrive).
Uploads per file restricted to 3Mbps to 5Mbps this afternoon using vanilla BT Infinity 2. Last night it was higher so it's variable.
Uploads per file using a London proxy server were 8.5 Mbps.
Downloads per file restricted to about 43 Mbps using Infinity 2 (so could be slow Google servers/links)
(Proxy server itself is limiting downloads to 12Mbps currently)
Incidentally, MS Sky Drive seems to have a permanent upload speed limit of about 3 Mbps per file at the Microsoft level (therefore presumably BT don't have to bother).
The moral seems to be if you want fast free cloud uploads without messy large-file splitting, use a good proxy and Google Drive. Can anyone confirm that it IS BT doing the upload speed limiting here? Speedtests run at the full 17Mbps.

Well today I'm seeing Google Drive upload speed limiting of 2.5 to 3Mbps per file (connection) using Infinity direct, and all the proxy servers I have tried are stuck at those speeds too ( UK, Europe and the US).
Google Drive claim that they do not throttle bandwidth use http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2490100 and that was certainly borne out last night, but not today. Someone somewhere is doing the throttling (or traffic managing) and currently, the finger points at Google servers whereas yesterday it pointed at BT so perhaps we'll never know.
It's probably naive to expect no upload speed restrictions as at peak times someone's servers somewhere may just run out of bandwidth but at least I know now that neither Google nor BT Infinity throttle at quiet times, I just need to discover when those times are now (in addition to after midnight).
Whereas... Microsoft SkyDrive seem to restrict uploads to about 2.5Mbps per file/connection, 24/7. So I'll now avoid them for large files or zip-split the files and upload several concurrently (which is also an option for Google Drive at busy times).
As we can see, and many of us have suspected all along, massive upload (and download) connection speeds have reached the level now where the effective speed limit is more often set by individual sites or the Internet backbone than our own internet connection. A bit like the M25... just try doing 70 mph near Heathrow at 5pm! But at midnight, it's a different story (except with Skydrive's permanent '30 mph' limit).

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