This is a formal apology to Muhctekdano for my reply to his taking time to help. Sorry Dan, it was a smart aleck reply and I apologize.
My thanks to 'wondering why' for locating some excellent in-depth past Forum discussions, particularly 'Lord of the Rings' post of Feb 11, 2005 'ISP's known to BLOCK or Filter p2p or specifically Limewire'. In the opening [i]italicized[i]paragraph there are two great links, particularly 'sandvine', in which a Canadian company outlines its various blocking services to ISP's in a lengthy commercial document.
To 'mickjapa'; I can't supply detailed information about 'Bandwidth Throttling' that I don't have in order to start a discussion, which is why I asked the question. As to me supplying info about pings, routing, etc, it is easily available on many freeware Speed Tests.
As a new junior member of the Forum, I hope my apology is accepted by Dan. Yours truly, caseybob

Threads merged, just to keep it all in the one place

No hard feelings

I get a bit smart-alecky myself, sometimes

Thanks, though

Dan