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5 Reasons Why ISPs Engage in Bandwidth Throttling Overall, here are the main reasons your ISP might start throttling your bandwidth: They want to decrease network congestion during certain times of the day or week when bandwidth usage is too high. That’s how ISPs try to improve their services in a way, so that their users don’t have to deal with too much service instability. ISPs can also throttle user bandwidth in order to lower the amount of online data they need to process. By doing that, they make sure they can handle a lot of Internet traffic without needing to invest too much money into buying newer, faster equipment. Your ISP might subject you to bandwidth throttling if they see you are downloading torrents. They might do that as a way to discourage you from torrenting. ISPs might also throttle user bandwidth as a way to get many of them to buy more expensive subscription and data plans. Lastly, your ISP is very likely to start engaging in bandwidth throttling if there is a “fair usage policy” in the contract. If you’re not sure what that is, it’s a clause that usually stipulates that each ISP user has a certain amount of data allocated to them. Going over that specific amount can result in bandwidth throttling and potential extra costs.