the official limits are 60gb for regular high speed and 100gb for x-treme (nitro uses the x-treme limits). and Shaw doesn't differentiate between torrents or regular downloads/uploads, traffic is traffic. though it is true they pay much more attention to the upstream bandwidth over the downstream. if you're over the limits and your download/upload ratio is 10:1, they'll likely leave you alone. however the more that ratio approaches 1 the higher the likelyhood of you getting flagged (and once you're flagged you're termed a power user and consistently monitored)
but really, i consider myself a heavy user and i get nowhere close to approaching the 100gb limit. i leave utorrent on for a good 8-10 hours a day (however long my PC is on for) constantly uploading to keep my ratio good at torrent sites and the most i ever traffic in a heavy month is maybe 70-75 gigs. to get higher than that you have to be hitting newsgroups and FTPs pretty heavily, which most users never do
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