THE US FCC has promised faithfully to look into complaints that Comcast has been the throttling bandwidth of punters who it thinks use file sharing.

Associated Press last year revealed that if you try to file share on the Comcast network your bandwidth slows to tectonic speeds.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was approached by a coalition of consumer groups and legal scholars asked the agency in November and asked to look into the matter.

Theoretically Comcast could be fined just shy of $200,000 for each user it throttled.

Martin said he was going to investigate to make sure that there were no blocked users.

Comcast says that no one is blocked but that was "delaying" some of the traffic between computers that share files.

Martin said that the FCC's policy statement makes an exception for " reasonable traffic management" and the main discussion will be if the FCC thinks Comcast is being reasonable.

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