Comcast is definitely discriminating against internet traffic

[FatBastard]

And now they are being sued .....

[The PIT]

Pity we don't sue here. My ISP Ukonline certainly restricts P2P and trying download a bit torrent is a waste of time. FTP and Http is fine and you download gigs of the stuff. Fire a torrent forget it.

However unlike across the pond we don't have much in the way of bandwidth anyway so you're going to have to restrict the bandwidth but this should be in the usage policy.

[Jammrock]

Have you tried changing which port you use for torrent traffic? That and you can get uTorrent, Azureus or BitComent (maybe a couple others) and they will encrypt the traffic, so the ISP cannot tell if it's torrent or not.

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/

My ISP is small and doesn't give a crap what I do as long as my bill is paid on time.

Jammrock

[xortam]

Comcast is backing off, sort of ...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/27/comcast.bittorrent/index.html

... Comcast has said that its practices were necessary to keep file-sharing traffic from overwhelming local cable lines, where neighbors share capacity with one another. On Thursday, Comcast said that by the end of the year, it will move to a system that manages capacity without favoring one type of traffic over another. ...

[Tjalfe]

Just as Bell Canada is starting to throttle even the resellers of their ADSL.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bell-Canada-Confirms-Throttling-92973

That sound outright criminal to me

Rogers Cable, the biggest in and around Toronto, is already throttleing their network.

So much for downloading HD being the future.. funny too how Rogers and Bell the two major providers of HDTV in toronto too. The only option left is Starchoice Satellite.

[Wombat]

The skeptic in me notes that Comcast didn't say they'd stop hacking your BT stream, they just said that they will treat all your other traffic the same way...