Road Runner Cable and torrenting

A few months ago, I was using Charter and it did a decent job for all things internet. I moved and switched to Road Runner and it works adequately as well, except for torrenting. I'm getting horrible download speeds using both Azureus and muTorrent. I was told there was some sort of trick to fixing this, but haven't been able to find it. Help anyone?

get utorrent 1.5 and set protocol encryption to forced. It's likley your ISP is blocking bittorrent and doing this will make it impossible for them to detect you're using BT.