ISP blocking emule despite obfuscation ?

[solmyr72]

Hi,

I'd greatly appreciate help on the following.
I believe my ISP started blocking filesharing (problems are reported by thousands of users of this ISP).
Actually, they're only blocking *international* connections - if I download within my country, it's still fast, but it doesn't help since I'm mainly interested in stuff from abroad.

My question is, how it's done.
- I first suspected protocol blocking, but then - how come it doesn't help to use obfuscation (I even raised the 'padding' to 254, and it didn't help).
- Then I suspected they throttle the bandwidth. But then, how come my bittorrent is still fast?

Some notes just in case - I use antivirus/spyware, my firewall is disabled, I don't have anything else running (and I don't run emule and BT simultaniously).
And I share stuff, I'd never leech.
My cable speed is 2.5Mb down, 256Kb up, and poor emule is only downloading at 5 KB :(

Any explanation to what's happening? Any way to get around it?
Thanks very much.

[DigitalJunkie]

I don't think any ISP would block International connections. On eMule it all depends on how many sources for the file you are downloading, and what eMule mod. they use. There are mods. that gives more controls that lets people upload file(s) more quickly!

[solmyr72]

Thanks for this information !

[1cooldude]

I would not be using emule altogether. There are better protocols like Usenet or encrypted torrents.