Goodkid1

As a computer professional you should know that P2P throttling is a world-wide problem, not just a US, because most ISPs are convinced that their precious bandwidth is being used up by a hard-core minority, i.e. P2P users. I also believe that the RIAA, and their international collaborators, are encouraging ISPs to introduce anti-P2P methods wherever and whenever possible.

Saying all that, you will find that whenever ISPs introduce “bandwidth throttling” they do not advertise the fact or even tell their help desk staff. Only if you contact a technical person in the organisation that you stand a chance of getting the truth.

However, I have been told by a colleague that Sharaza, another P2P app, has a facility that can beat bandwidth throttling by automatically searching for a non-blocked port to use. How true this is I don’t know until I try it myself but, and here is grain of a thought, if this facility does work then LW should use it as well. But technically, I doubt this facility would work with a NAT firewall enabled modem/routers.

Finally, I do believe there is a problem as you described but I think it is wider than just the narrow confines of the LW application.



UK Bob