lousy routers (Score 1)

Regarding (relative) symmettry. Since port 80 is blocked, you already can't run a Web server but the lousy routers that Verizon gives out (which are necessary if you want On Demand TV...) have small NAT tables. That means that if you're on a torrent, you're going to experience problems. I don't know enough to explain precisely how this works (I THINK that what happens is that errors from the torrents fill up the NAT tables, causing trouble for the lame box), but if I leave a torrent open, my wife's vonage connection is usually shite.