Yes, your ISP has installed anti-P2P equipment which restricts the use of P2P apps on their network.

You will find that most, if not all, ISPs have a "fair usage" clause in their contarcts which in practice means that can introduce "bandwidth shaping" techniques on their network without giving you any notice.

Give them a call and find out for sure.


UK Bob

Sometimes I still am able to download fine. Smaller files usually work better or if I leave it on overnight sometimes it will download gigs of movies. It seems very sporadic.

Is there any way around it if this is the case? Bit torrent's work fine for me without any problems at all - very fast.

By the way I have verizon fios and I didn't see any other complaints from other users about p2p functioning poorly when I searched...