My downloads are suddenly so slow and I can't figure out why!

[B18C5]

if they throttle him does switching to SSL(port 443) help?

Regular SSL doesn't seem to help. As Hypatia suggests, port 443 SSL is supposed to bypass the throttle.

[sandman_1]

Damn!! You are right, thanks so much for linking me to that thread!

They really snuck that one in under our noses and don't even mention it in the table (listing N/A for all)...

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Guess I'll have to upgrade to their 100meg when it comes out! They probably want to entice their 50meg customers like me over to it which is why they made the change.

Yea these ISP's can be sneaky bastards for sure. Even on 100meg, I would think they would do the same thing, though 100meg would be nice. The best bet is to somehow hide your type of traffic either by using SSL (using different ports) or using a VPN.

[Hypatia]

WOuldn't it be a problem to find not overpriced VPN service that could sustain 100 mbit?
it heavily depends on routes as well.. my friend lives in the same town as me but he is subscribed to a different ISP, We used the same VPN service once and both had 50mbit plan. he could easily get 6MB ,yet mine was limited to 3+MB and never spiked higher than that though without VPN i did get my 6MB as well