[guygee]

A suggestion that might help if you happen to be using µTorrent (or another client that implements uTP). Put a low number for your upload max, but uncheck "Apply rate limit to uTP connections" in Options->Preferences->Bandwidth. Maybe the TCP-IP congestion control is less objectionable to my DSL ISP, but whatever the reason I am getting much better overall upload bandwidth since I did this myself.

They still firewall me when they get pissed, but on a per-site basis.