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Originally Posted by Optiplex
Hi
First let me put on my flame suit. 
This link has a point on it that struck a cord with me. Users on here say that they download legal stuff from sites that allow pay for content, Download Linux distro's and stuff like that.
My point is the comment " leading to their consideration of unpopular measures such as port throttling P2P sites"
For me that would not be a problem as any stuff i download is not from p2p and therefor would not be affected by port throttling. This would cut down on a lot of the high bandwidth that is being used at the moment by those that do download 8-10gig perday day in day out from p2p sites.
Plus if the throttle was only on at peek times you could control the damage that p2p can create.
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I think there is a consensous of opinion on here that it is peak time use where problems of congestion are causing service deterioration. P2P is one part of the congestion equation, but all downloading contributes. I'm not sure how practical or possible it is for ISPs to physically throttle P2P ports, especailly as these can be changed.
In the first instance asking all heavy downloaders (and uploaders too) to try and schedule such data transfers off peak, must be of benefit. Physical controls could be developed in the longer term if the voluntary measures don't work, but what would not the cost of developing such tools be better spent positively on physical upgrades in network capacity, rather than managing scarcity of resource that in the longer term would become an ever increasing problem for the ISP and it's users?
PS no need for a flame suit, you are entitled to make your views known.