I recently moved into college.
After getting hooked up to the network, I noticed some severe bandwith throttling.
Downloads start at 900k/s and are throttled down to 10k/s after the first 5 megs- Not exactly a good environment for online gaming or downloading linux distros!
I was told by one of the IT folk that this is because of the traffic shapers they run.

Any way to defeat this/work around it?