Alright, I'm almost 100% positive that my ISP (NTC Communications) is capping my downloads on p2p applications. Downloading from an ordinary website, my DSL connection gets up to 70 kb/s, yet on kazaa, limewire, and morpheous, my connection gets no higher than 3 kb/s, usually fluctuating between 0 and 3 kb/s, pausing intermiditly. I've read my terms of service, and it even says that NTC Communications reserve the right to cap bandwidth and furthormore prohibits the use of p2p applications.

If NTC Communications was not included in my monthly apartment rent, I would whole heartedly switch ISP's immediatly, but as you can imagine, it is. Now, I've tweeked limewire and kazaa in order to connect to the gnutella servers, but I can't seem to figure out a tweak around the bandwidth cap.

Considering that my downloads from websites and ftp sites are uncapped, I wonder if there is a way to get around the p2p cap.

I've searched the forums and have come up empty in this regard. Can anyone help?

relevant information:

windows xp pro sp-1 (built in firewall turned off)
linksys wireless access router (dmz host turned on for static ip)
in limewire (primary p2p application) forceip is turned on

Hi Gevaudan

Sorry to hear your ISP explicitly prohibits p2p (search these forums for Sandvine for other examples).

btw, there is a casual listing about ISP's: you might want to add your discovery.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=20678