Basically, I had QOS in place and dropped it...I could not get it to work reliably. To be fair VoIP never had a problem but it seemed like other traffic including Torrents would be scaled back even if the phone was not in use.
Also I must note that I have a customized version of Tomato adjusted to do MLPPP over PPPOE (see fixppp.org) which seems to beat the Telco throttling here. The situation is such that even though my ISP does not throttle they rely on the copper of the incumbent and the incumbent throttles everyone ...
Not much help I know....