i use cox cable

All major ISPs (Wanadoo, Free, AOL, Tiscali, ...) for home users in France do not block P2P (legally they can't do it, because it would require inspecting private traffic).

This will not be the case for ISPs that offer Enterprise services that will include traffic shapers. But they don't do it without an explicit subscription agreement with the organization, and the organization MUST inform its employees that the Internet access is monitored (the same is true for surveillance cameras installed in work places or in shops, and even at home: the surveillance must be announced). Same thing for cameras in streets: they are illegal unless they have been publicly announced.

Same thing for automatic speed control on roads: they are announced, and their location is known and published (This restriction does not apply to speed controls operated by trusted agents of the national police and gendarmerie, but these controls must still be visible).

The rule is that if you don't know you are monitored, any monitoring becomes illegal, and its result is unusable face to a court, unless this control is done by trusted agents with judiciary injunctions (there are more freedom for anti-terrorist control, for national security, which may allow law enforcement agents to monitor P2P traffic, they can't do anything about private rights like copyrights and author rights, but they can act for tax-related crimes, like illegal sales and imports of tobacco and drugs on the Internet: the "douane" can monitor networks and colect proofs for such illegal sales and traffic).

Also child protection against sex abuses is severely controled and all French ISPs collaborate to finance a common non-profit monitoring service to fight against such abuses, collect proofs and initiate law actions. For this reason, P2P networks are monitored

ntl broaband in the uk rules.....only £17.99 per month for 1mb!! i have that and they dont block anything!

I have verizon dsl and I don't have any problems with uploads or downloads.

Shaw Cable in British Columbia allows LW. Even walked me through setting my firewall and security program to allow it.

I personally use bellsouth fast access DSL and it's working fine. I have limewire on my moms cpu and she has comcast cable and it's working fine there also.

Iowa, Cedar Falls Utilities works

I think all that's about to change my friend, having mad drama with BellSouth, especially in the past week...we may have to become dual citizens, move abroad a bit, I could use the rest!

I use Talktalk in the Uk and at first when I subscribed it all worked fine, but for the last couple of months I cannot connect.
My friend who lives next door to me is using the same isp with the same speed and he has no problems at all. I tried every avenue you can imagine to see if I could rectify this connection problem but could not resolve it. Eventually my friend put his user name and password into my connection and it worked fine again, so it would seem that they can target individual computers. When I rang them to find out why I could not connect with my user name and password but could using my friends on the very same computer they just pleaded ignorant and gave me a technical helpline number charged at fifty pence a min. Surely this is breaking the agreement of a contract to supply you with a fully operational internet connection?

I am also on talk talk and have the same problem i have used limewire before then switched to bearshare now im back with limewire and have changed my firewall settings, it will return searches and show it is connected (varies graetly in strenght, the icon at the bottom indicates). i have also noticed that when using bearshare at early hours of the morning it seems to work loads better i dnt know if this is due to hosts from other countrys coming online or if its somthing to do with talk talk limiting me during the day?? any1 got any ideas?