PFIR Forums http://forums.pfir.org/ Recently Updated "PFIR Forums" Discussion Threads en-us 2008-09-15T18:29:04-07:00 PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility PFIR Forums 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly Time Warner clearly limiting traffic due to bittorrent use http://forums.pfir.org/main/messages/714/753.html I have Turbo Roadrunner and upgrading away from any SB4100/SB4200 &#40;ended up with an SB5100&#41; cleared up my eternity&#39;s worth of trouble &#40;that TW still has never addressed in any way&#41;. I&#39;ll add that it felt like BT was being throttled or handled in some way, but I no longer believe that to be true. More here &#40;and throughout the site, on the full, painful history&#41;: <a h guest 2008-06-20T06:38:37-07:00 Time Warner clearly limiting traffic due to bittorrent use http://forums.pfir.org/main/messages/714/753.html time warner is definitely gating/limiting client downstream speed for using torrent. they do it by assigning a crappy blacklisted IP address &#40;what happened a year ago&#41; or simply by dropping downstream speed by a factor of 20. Since their DHCP assigns IPs by MAC address you can just change the MAC address your router reports to the network and you will receive a new IP free of the strictu stoptimewarner 2008-07-19T22:27:06-07:00