Verizon recently upgraded me to 50mbps for free, which is I thought was quite nice. After the upgrade, strange things started happening to my torrent downloads. When a new torrent is added, the download speed starts increasing until it reaches 5MB/s or so, and then it abruptly drops all the way to 1KB/s. After a few minutes, the speed increases again and then drops back. While the speed is at 1KB/s, I am able to run a web-based speed test and see the full download speed as promised.
Is Verizon throttling me or is this just the router not being able to handle so many packets? I don't upload copyrighted material and have never received any warnings from the ISP.
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