Attn: UMDFiddler: I am also with atlantic broadband and the bearshare downloads are over an hour long...if i can even open bearshare...i recently switched from bell south dsl and had no problems then...am wondering if you found away around the traffic shaping with atl bb???? god i hate to go back to bell south, but this is rediculous!!!!!

No I have not found a way arround atlantic bb traffic shaping. Im not even entirely sure that traffic shaping is the problem though i cant think of anything else since i have tried everything to fix it so for now i have given up on using any p2p networks. I would swich ISPs but I dont think i have any other good options. Were you able to connect to Gnutella when you had atlantic bb?