Shaw Canada, Encryption and Volume Limits (Score 1)

I'm with Canadian ISP Shaw Cable, and this whole packet shaping thing is definitely part of their gameplan. I can't really blame them, but what an underhanded way of regulating internet traffic. They already have an advertised limit on volume (60 gigs a month for my connection) and now they're going to slow it down and not tell me? Screw that. I'm a student living in a house with 5 other people sharing one connection, so needless to say we use a lot of bandwidth. As of late we've been called my Shaw, but not because of the bandwidth we use - rather, how much volume we downloaded. We doubled the limit. Twice. So, we moved our bittorrent activities to early in the morning and started watching how much was downloaded. Problem solved, no more phonecalls. All this using a wicked app called uTorrent, and packet encryption. This is how we discovered Shaw's use of shaping, as prior to using encryption nothing would go over 100KB/sec. Now, we get speeds sometimes over 300KB/sec or better. If all they're going to complain about is volume, I'm going to continue to get the most out of the advertised bandwidth. I've got the common courtesy to keep my torrent downloads to off-peak hours, I'm not waiting any longer than I have to for something to download.