I worked for several years for a cable company, I am confident that many cable companys will begin or are doing the same now.

The internet was not designed to handle the traffic it is hammerd with today. More true many cable companies have way too many actives on a node, P2P traffic causes serious latency issues on those nodes, which can and will effect all services, VoIP, Video, and Data.

I have noticed my connection gets throttled when I use NetFlix. Watching the throughput on my line with OpenXtra it seems obvious that after a few minutes the bandwidth is throttled from 10mbps to under 200kbps. Watching the trace shows no signs of a bottleneck.

I do know that NetFlix uses high ports and low ports and could easily be viewed as warez bandwidth. The point of the story? I dont have one, as I am really inclined to support traffic shaping, why allow a few users to absorb all the bandwidth?