darkbreeze

Well, I can assure you that they are. I had the cable tv with the higher tier internet package until about a month ago when I switched to direct tv and downgraded my internet service with comcast to their lower tier package. It's still supposed to be 1.5 M down and 384 kb up and has been until a couple of days ago. I actually still hit those speeds almost exactly time after time at dslreports but the minute I start utorrent, or any other bittorrent client, I cannot achieve over 175kb download and about 35kb upload. Like I said before I usually don't download huge files, generally between 100 and 900 mb files and I try to seed to 1.5x ratio so I know I can't be flagged for bandwidth. I used to have qwest dsl and had to toss them as the service was so sporatic and the price went way up. I've thought of switching now but my neighbors who have qwest say the service is still sporatic here as were outside of town and the lines are old. I'd just like to get the speeds I'm supposed to, or even half advertised.

Greetings from Colorado. First of all, and hold the boos, we already know they suck, I'm with crapcast (AKA Comcast), second of all, the recently started throttling our downloads as well as the uploads. My downloads were fine until about three days ago, I could download at over a meg sometimes and occasionally about a meg and a half. I don't download large files very often, maybe once or twice a month. I've tried all the suggestions in this thread, I've tried encryption, different ports, different hours of the day, different files, different clients, and nothing changes the download rate whatsoever. Every time I start up utorrent it will get up to about 250kb and then gradually goes down until it's between 170 and 180, nomatter what. There's got to be something out that will defeat this. My http downloads and my ftp up and downloads work fine. Almost every Google return regarding this problem refers to outdated 2007 articles. Anybody have any CURRENT information regarding the throttling. Thanks for any help.