OOL are a bunch oF LIARS...even to their OOL BOOST customers
 

wow. i remember when this problem first started a few years ago with WINMX being blocked. now OOL has seem to have takin a likin to limewire and the Gnutella network. all the reps can lie all they want to you about them not blocking nothing. funny to cause as a BOOST user i have more rights then normal service users and still im being blocked. what is the most typical thing OOL says to me when you introduce this problem to them "OH THIS IS A NEW PROBLEM TO ME" yeah right...ive notice over the years when ive called OOL about them blocking 3rd party softwares. they always say that line. what am i the only person that calls about these problems. thats a LOAD of B.S.
they sware up and down and left and right that its not them and they completly blame the SOFTWARE DEVEOLPERS about this problem. but im sure even the novice users on the internet have came to the conclusion that OOL is just blocking everything that deals with File sharing. Frontcode got ita few years back. now Gnutella. what do we (OOL customers) have to do to get some justice. we pay out good money for a connetion thats supposed to be the best in the nation and is voted #1 by computer mags, and hads uncalled for limits. im switching to DSL if this problem is not fixed. even tho cable is much better than DSL. i just can think of the fact that im paying X amount of money for a connection that has complete limit on it. its just not right.
I BLAME IT ALL ON OOL they are doing this. i kno they are. millions know they are too. and unless they have the money to loose plenty of their customers they better fix this problem and lift the block off these softwares. and stp tryin to blame the developers when its not them.

OOL has been capping p2p for a very long time. The link below is to a discussion about it that started in 2002 and has been going strong ever since.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15784791

Very nice find! dslreports.com are a "very reliable" source of information.
So the games they're playing with their customers ... give them a little bit ... as soon as they are taking more than what OOL are willing to offer then time to cut them to size (the ool customers.) Then the shaping & filtering comes into effect & they all pretend they don't know anything. Actually AFAIK often most who work for the isp's don't know. It's only when there's competition in the same regional/local market that can be a threat that they are willing to compromise in part. If you have competition in your area, then see what they have to offer. See if they're willing to offer trials of their service.