Bandwidth limiting is one of the hottest debates throughout the file-sharing community. ISPs such as Comcast have been reluctant to admit to this practice, and much of the inner workings of this issue have only come to light from internal leaks. The most Comcast has admitted is "delaying" BitTorrent upload traffic. As reported by Ars Technica,Canadian ISP Sypatico has taken a somewhat more open approach, as they have addressed their own capping issues with broadband customers.
The complaint against Sypatico starts like most other BitTorrent complaints against an ISP. "Since a few days I have seen my connection capped at 30kb/sec for DL and Up." Sound familiar? This seems to be a bit different than Comcast's approach, which "delays" a transmission until congestion eases. Sympatico appears to lower the bandwidth ceiling on certain P2P elements, diverting remaining bandwidth to other protocols.
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