During on-peak (a few minutes ago), when starting downloading content via the torrent protocol, the speed would slowly increase until it would max out my line speed, and then all of a sudden it would start slowing down until comming to a full stop.
5 sec interval:

30 sec interval:

After restarting uTorrent, 5 sec interval:

Letting it run for about 30 min and it stabilizes at about 1/4 of my line speed, 30 sec intercal:

I wouldn't care much during off-peak, but during peak when I need the download ASAP, this is quite anoying.
Could this be an issue with my torrent client (uTorrent) or would this indicate torrent traffic being shaped?
Suggestions welcome
Suggestions welcome.