Bandwidth Throttling By ISP (Canada)

[quicksilver]

Canadian cable company Shaw , are alleged to be using a "limiting" system to slow down bit torrent speeds as excessive bandwidth was being used by this program.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/56419

The alleged system being used consists of this and may spread to other ISP providers

http://www.ellacoya.com/products/e30.shtml

Notice the "rate limiting" feature

[Rat]

Hmmm.... seems that Ellacoya intended (at least on the surface of things) to make switches that could prioritize high-bandwidth users such as gamers. It's sad that so many technologies can be used for diametrically opposed purposes.

[quicksilver]

Thats the story of many good ideas
Here is a list of some throttled ports that a lot of the ISP,s use

The list includes, but is not neccessarily limited to, the following common ports
Direct Connect 411 - 413
Kazaa 1214
eDonkey 4662
Gnutella 6346 - 6347
WinMX 6699 - 6527
BitTorrent 6881 - 6889

May be a good idea to change the defaults to a random setting.