So if the alternative to bandwidth throttling is for Bell to buy more bandwidth then would you mind a rate increase to pay for it? That point aside, I cannot sympathize with buddy for exaggerating the truth and acting like a little bitch: 1. The "I can't" bit is a complete and utter lie. Decreased speed just does not equal "I can't". Further to that, if I'm using my computer while downloading a torrent, I don't *want* my upload speed to be much more than 30K/sec because then I have very little left for surfing, etc. 2. You don't have to be home from work to download a torrent. Queue it up in the morning before you leave work and let it leech all the bandwidth it wants during non-peak hours. There may be point in all that but the writer frames it in such a pathetic context that it's totally lost on me.