I was furious to find that BT are on a list of known offenders who throttle bittorrent downloads. (Scroll down to uk on this chart: http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs ) This effectively means that there is no possible way to get the full 8Mbs bandwidth that I was promised when I signed up to my 18 month BT Total Broadband contract.

I desperately want to cancel the line and go with an ISP that doesn't snoop on people's connections - surely if BT did not make me aware that they throttle P2P torrents (nothing of this is mentioned in the contract - my downloads are movie trailers from Vuze which are 100% legal by the way) when I signed up with them I'm entitled to void the contract... right? Because they withheld information about the service which would have affected my decision to enter a into a contract?

I attempted to speak to a BT broadband technician (very bad english, read out pre-written responses to me or just said errrrrrr....) about the matter but they simply refused to acknowledge that any throttling was occuring. I notice that in the US, Comcast has finally owned up to torrent throttling after months of denial, article available here: http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2008/03/24/daily29.html

It would be nice if BT took a similar stance but I guess people need to start making noise first. I don't even know how. Anyone?...