Recently, I'd say in the last couple of months, I've noticed a drastic reduction in Limewire in the speed of uploads from my shared file. At the same time I'm experiencing constant stalls in my downloads. A file will begin nicely but eventually the speed will reduce to 0kps and it will just stay there. I have an amazingly fast Cable/dsl connection and have added very little to my system in recent months and continue to get lighting fast downloads from other applications. Limewire Uploads used to be as high as the 100's and now top out anywhere from 5 to 10 and usually average less than that. It takes ages for folks to get anything from me. The only program on my computer that seems to be effected is Limewire, any ideas?

Your ISP is "throttling" P2P connections. This is getting very common.

They use hardware boxes and software that analyzes traffic by port #,packet info ,or by IP adresses.

So,you can have a 3 Mbps pipe and surf the web fast, but P2P sppeds are drastically reduced, or "throttled"

you can tell if
you start d/ling a file, it's cruising along nicely, and then after 1-2 minutes, the speeds drops to 0 or close to it. I though it was always the other guy's fault until I started looking into this and read up on Throttling.

Which ISP do you use? Go look for a forum about it on dslreports.com and confirm this with other users.

That makes an awful lot of sense and it's what I suspected it was but I had never heard of this "Throttling" practice. My ISP is Rogers in Canada which is a huge company and I'm contractually obliged to stay with them for another year, I'll be letting them know that I'll be walking the minute I can, specifically over this issue. Thanks..

ps..there ought to be a special section in this forum just to discuss this, because sooner or later all the broadband companies will be doing this.

There is -- but it's listed under the connection problem forum

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=51361

btw, in Canada there's a nice competition between the telcos and the cablecos.

When my cableco started throttling uploads, I signed up for a free trial from the telco. Since the dsl and the cable each had their own modem, I was able to compare the two, and send the upload screenshots to both.


Now my cableco doesn't throttle my uploads unless I exceed the bandwidth cap of ~ 70 GB/month