said by en102 
:The question is..
What if you are NOT a bandwidth hog and 24x7 user, yet still hit these filters ?
Eg. A little email, a little web browsing, then go to a site to download a Fedora Core update over bittorrent, and have the +10Mbps line running worse than a 56kbps modem.
I'll gladly keep my DSL-Extreme 3Mbps/512kbps line... its cheaper and appears to have better throughput than Comcast's traffic shaped line.
Nothing you described in your analogy would be subject to throttling -- remember we're talking about uploads, right? 
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