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Originally Posted by Regorium
Completely untrue. If, for example, I am advertised a 5Mb/s down and 768kb/s up connection, I should be able to achieve this rated speed at ANY point in the day, regardless of the amount of traffic on the network at that particular time. This is their responsibility. It is not my responsibility to make sure that the other people in my building have good speed as well.
However, since ISP's realize most people are complete idiots and use very very little bandwidth, they oversell their pipe like crazy. Now they have some people actually using what they advertise, and they shut them down. Absolutely ridiculous.
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They don't shut people down for using the bandwidth. They shut people down for going over the upper monthly limit. If you read your contract (at least with Shaw), you'll find you agreed to that limit.
That said, bittorrent traffic should not be treated/shaped any differently then any other type of traffic. If Comcast is allowed to continue doing this, we will see further restrictions come in that will actually start harming free commerce and transmission of information. What would stop Comcast from delaying all traffic headed towards rivals?
We must keep the tubes open and free of any tolls!