i found a cool little trick to bypass throttling (i have qwest in Arizona). in used a program called SuperScan which is normally used for hacking, sorry i don't know where to get it online but google is your friend. It scans your IP for open ports, after i scanned, I chose the one used for network printer access and went from 15 kB/s to around 50 kB/s. **not a joke, the minute after i posted this, it was throttled. Im really beginning to think big brother sucks**