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Topic: BitTorrent throttling by Comcast (Read 24901 times)
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Hoax
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l33t kiddie
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Comcast is bullshit, its funny. On a fresh set of lines in a house where there has never been Cable I'm getting close to 1mb/s from fucking torrents... which is awesome. They are totally going to throttle me back soon, because they fucking hate freedom.
At my old house where people had been running multiple comps and downloading and gaming the fucking cable was capped so bad that getting over 100k/s was celebration time.
I fucking hate Comcast. As usual you give a goddamn corporation a monopoly and I'm supposed to be surprised they fuck over customers left and right?
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Righ
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Its the seeding of torrents that Comcrap puts it effort into spoiling. I can get well in excess of 1mb/s leeching.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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They do. It's on the order of 1.5T/mo, but it's scraped by overall percentage per month so it varies.
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UD_Delt
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Not to rehash the popularity of UseNet or anything but I just found out that the university I'm working at willl be sunsetting their UseNet server as of December break this year. Apparently there are only around 5 people who use it in any given month and it's not worth maintaining any more, probably moreso since they probably haven't upgraded the server since it went in back in the 80's.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Ars Technica has a good article up on this, if you haven't already seen it. They were allowed to sit in on a discussion conference call while comcast tried to wheedle.
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Phred
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Comcast is bullshit, its funny. On a fresh set of lines in a house where there has never been Cable I'm getting close to 1mb/s from fucking torrents... which is awesome. They are totally going to throttle me back soon, because they fucking hate freedom.
At my old house where people had been running multiple comps and downloading and gaming the fucking cable was capped so bad that getting over 100k/s was celebration time.
I fucking hate Comcast. As usual you give a goddamn corporation a monopoly and I'm supposed to be surprised they fuck over customers left and right?
So is the old install in a popular upscale neighbourhood or someplace where more ppl might be on it? Cable is a shared bandwidth medium so the more customers in an area the worse your bandwidth is gonna be. |
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Strazos
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1mb/s, on a torrent? I think it's great if I can get over 100k/s on a torrent.
Suffice to say, I don't torrent anything I want NOW; I just let it go for an hour or so.
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CharlieMopps
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Working for a telecom company myself, I can say that this throttling stuff happens EVERYWHERE. Each company does it a little different, but they all have to do it. Comcast is just doing it in a particularly stupid fashion. When you consider how much a DSL card costs for example, $700 for a 16 port pack refurbished... not even new... and then the fiber trunk leading back to the office... Then trunks going to the major carriers. Then they have to pay people like me to sit here on a friggen sunday... oh and don't foget Christmas day... and watch the shit. The crap goes down ALL the time. A fan goes bad, lightening, drunk people running over peds... then we send out a tech that makes around $50 an hour out to fix a card thats effecting 16 people. It costs a fortune.
If you really think someones going to give you 2MB service for $30/month and you're REALLY going to get 2MB, you're just plain dumb. The idea that their management is "telling a lie" is silly to. Management doesn't know a damned thing. They just kept cutting their Network Services budget till it got to the point that this stuff was required. Then their Operations manager is sitting there deciding "Cut my salary in half... or cut torrent traffic in half... hmm...."
edit: typo
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slog
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Not likely even though it's possible that what they are doing is illegal. But if you are technically inclined you can put a firewall in front and reject Comcast's attempts to screw up your connection.
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Trippy
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Google on: RST packets firewall Comcast
That only works if both ends are dropping the forged RST packets Comcast is sending out.
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