Internet connection

[wondering why]

Hi guys, I have a question, I recently moved and have had to change from ADSL to Cable internet and have found cable to be very slow ( its meant to be one of the fastest here in Oz), So I contacted my ISP and they said that the connection was fine, that I either had a virus or a file sharing program, I dont have a virus so I put it down to LW. So I disabled LW on computer start up and now the internet is running fine, why, when I had ADSL every thing ran fine and now with cable its been effected, and does this make a difference to the file sharing community,or is there some sort of setting I could change?

Thanks for your time

[Grandpa]

Your cable company is detecting your P2P software and they are throttling your connection speed. Some ISP block or filter P2P software. The link below might help to explainer.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=33712

[wondering why]

Thanks Grandpa, Its a bit wrong dont u think, whats it got to do with them what we do with our computers, we pay them enough freakin money and they do that, Id change ISP but the A holes have got a 2yr contract over my head.

Many Thanks

[Grandpa]

You could try different ports they are probably detecting by monitoring known P2P ports I have herd that some people have been been able to get around them this way.