I have a 250 and was having the same issues as you. That week VM where doing something. People can tell me they don't/won't/can't shape traffic based on Trackers till they are blue in the face.
Did you try to grab one of those legal Torrents and see what happens? Don't assume the new modem sorted it, it may well just be that whatever it was they where doing, they stopped doing it. Mine has worked fine for the last six weeks and I haven't changed anything.
Anyone I know that uses Torrents is on BT, I sent links to Torrent files I couldn't even get a connection to, they try it, works as it should! So it was either VM or me, there is no other explanation, being as I could get legal Torrents at over 1Mb/s with hardly any seeds/peers, it would suggest it wasn't me.
So if VM weren't doing it, then the only explanation is that my PC/Router/Modem broke for no reason, was broke On/Off for two weeks, the fault only occured on illegal trackers, and then it fixed itself. If you think that can happen, then that is what it was.
Cos I didn't do anything to it. Neither to break it nor to fix it.
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What's the point of having broadband, if they are quashing it?
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It's not so much the fact they quash it with me, it's the fact they don't admit it. You can't really complain that you can't grab the latest blockbuster from a BT site because it is being limited so that somene can watch Eastenders on iPlayer. Just admit you are doing it though.
Proof of the pudding....................get rid of BitTorrent, lets see how many dive on 50Mbit and after that, lets see if Broadband in general continues at the pace it has done since 2003. I am not going 50Mbit. 25Mbit is fine. And if they do start to interfere with BT then 25Mbit is of no use to me, I will simply drop to the cheapest one they do.