Which is, incidentally, when Cardiff rolled it's 20Mb users on to their new DOCSIS3.0 network. It's the same for me in CF10. From what I've read, it should mean better service for us, but for the past couple of day's it's been the complete opposite.
As for the torrents, I don't use them, so can't chime in with my opinion. Which could be seen as a good thing