erick2008

Probably ISPs have more than one technique for throttling. The worst case to me is DPI (deep packet inspection) they apply by their firewalls which filters traffic based on packet inspection, so determining which application is being involved. So DSL speed test still reports full bandwidth, and even a regular download goes as fast as expected. However specific p2p applications (but could be any app of their choice), are still blocked by filters in place, thereby controlling bandwidth usage and preventing local traffic congestion (rather than on per-user basis). I can tell that encryption does nothing, it doesnt affect this throttling at all, and I guess in such a case no setting could ever be successful, until they are able to hide source app identity, and go through the ISP firewall (both outgoing and incoming connections). Any idea is welcomed, just wanted to bring it to your attention, and possibly find some workaround for this specific (nasty) throttling manner. Edit (link added): You can test which traffic is being filtered by this test: http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php?