Well, things get better ... Over here in Germany, many ISPs used to limit bandwith on certain services like p2p, because for many years most ISPs over here were just bandwith resellers without own backbones or last mile networks. But now many regional or local ISPs build their own infrastructure, making them independent of large scale network providers, so a lot of competition between local/regional and nationwide ISPs is going on nowadays. Now more and more regional ISPs (as the one in my hometown, NetCologne) and even the biggest nationwide ISP, T-Com, not only dropped port and bw limitation ... they ADVERTISE BIG astounding things like "Absolutely no port blocking! No bandwith limitation!". ;-) And they mean it! ;-) Only some very-cheapo-ISPs, still resellers without own network infrastructure limit traffic, but their main target are low traffic or call-by-call internet customers anyway. Also port dependend traffic limitation is still seen on some shared media type providers like Cable-TV ISPs with old infrastructure, or DSL-by-Satellite services. Competition WILL do the trick, even if it takes its time. H.Th.
