Seriously confused.

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Hi.

We are with Homecall who are basically Tiscali, and I've got an odd issue. Other than the awful speeds (30kb/s :/) during peak hours, everything is okay, but why on earth, is steam not caught by that speed limit? Rapidshare, torrents, http downloads are caught; but steam plows away at 600kb/second while nothing else does.

Just interested as to why it happens.

 

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They shape HTTP but not steam? Isn't that defeating the point of shaping?

Are there any better ISPs which come with bundled calls (parents want that, disadvantage of being 16)? No LLU services are available here, neither is cable.

Torrents arn't important to me, but HTTP download speed is.