I suspect the traffic throttling based on application probably works on the basis of throttling to the speed of the lowest rate of application so as soon as bitttorrent starts up you get slugged and when it stops you get promoted back up the food chain.
It's starting to sound like HoG with everyone ensconced in their cells getting a tv screen tan playing online games , watching tv and communicating through the keyboard or notes slipped under doors.
Time to introduce BOOT CAMP and I don't mean an add on for Apple computers neither.