unfortunately most isp's in Canada/USA are doing this, it's just we only hear from the big dogs like Comcast and Cox , a lot of the smaller isp's are also doing this it's nothing new. My isp, Eastlink here in Nova Scotia Canada is also throttling the hell out of there so-called 15mbit service. It gets frustrating trying to do just about anything these days with all the packet shaping these isp's are doing. Like one or more have said here, if they cannot allow users to use there advertised speed cause of possible slowdowns on nodes then they really shouldn't be offering the speeds that they offer if there network cannot handle it.
What most ISPs are doing is enforcing the terms of service their residential customers have agreed to abide by.
1) not to use the service for running/operating/hosting/etc. servers. 2) not to provide the service to third parties.
Some people apparently think it is their bit torrent downloads that are being throttled. But in fact it is the up stream of the person who is hosting and serving that bit torrent content on a residential service that is being throttled.
So download away, but do not blame your ISP for the content providers inability to properly host their content on a business service that permits operation of servers.
