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  1. For those folks with Comcast / XFINITY (laughing at the slow rebranding to move away from the stink "Comcast" has on it), you may have noticed what looks like throttling on your torrent downloads in the past couple of weeks. I noticed it this past week. After some research, I found this little gem that outlines their "congestion management" guidelines (dated 5/17/12). https://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/network-management-information/ The important section is "Real world" types of bandwidth consumption that might be considered too much. It appears that the days of having download speeds set to "Unlimited" may be over (for Comcast customers anyway). Within 5-10 minutes of having downloads peak at 2.5 MB/s, my downloads were throttled all the way down to ~12 kB/s, so I can verify the policy is in effect, at least for Chicago. I've been experimenting with capping the download speeds at 100 kB/s, 200 kB/s, and 300 kB/s. While I've had some fluctuations above 150 kB/s, my connection speeds have been consistently under that. I'm doing some further tests to see if any other factors will affect the download speeds (number of files, connected peers, etc). Encryption, connected peers, resolving IPs and all the other sorts of workarounds and tweaks in uTorrent did not change a thing when "Unlimited" download speed was set, I might add. YMMV of course, but this has at least allowed me to get in the vicinity of decent download speeds again. Given what I'm paying for their service, I'm not happy of course and will be looking for an alternate provider who can offer a better level of service for the cost. Hopefully, this will provide some information for sudden speed drop-offs others on Comcast may be seeing.
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