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08-19-2007, 12:21 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kentucky Posts: 32,050
|  Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic
Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic
It appears that Comcast has increased their fight against Bittorent. Users are reporting very low download speeds and the inability to seed anything. Over the past weeks more and more Comcast users started to notice that their BitTorrent transfers were cut off. Most users report a significant decrease in download speeds, and even worse, they are unable to seed their downloads. A nightmare for people who want to keep up a positive ratio at private trackers and for the speed of BitTorrent transfers in general.
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08-19-2007, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 19,803
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finally an advantage that my complex started a directpath monopoly...
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08-19-2007, 08:20 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 849
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good luck to comcast. they have no idea how many customers they're going to lose. if that happened with my ISP id switch over instantly.
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08-19-2007, 08:35 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
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Originally Posted by murdocsvan  good luck to comcast. they have no idea how many customers they're going to lose. if that happened with my ISP id switch over instantly. | If it'd happened to me, there's only one more company to use: AT&T.
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08-19-2007, 08:43 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 844
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This sucks. I have comcast . First they set download cap, and now this.  | |
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08-20-2007, 06:41 AM
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True Techie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 180
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I'd rather have NO Internet at all than to have to deal with fascists and monopolies (one way or the other).
Make your stand today! Sodaen Revolt Squad 2008.
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08-20-2007, 07:33 AM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 849
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Originally Posted by Sodaen I'd rather have NO Internet at all than to have to deal with fascists and monopolies (one way or the other).
Make your stand today! Sodaen Revolt Squad 2008. | Don't call me! I'll call you! Quote: |
If it'd happened to me, there's only one more company to use: AT&T.
| that sucks why the limited choice?
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08-20-2007, 07:58 AM
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Super Techie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 454
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You can encrypt the data... uTorrent is the only client I know of with this option, but I'm sure that many others, if not most, have this option.
How would an ISP be able to distinguish between BT traffic and HTTP traffic? You could just set your client to DL over port 80..
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08-20-2007, 12:34 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
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Originally Posted by murdocsvan that sucks why the limited choice? |
One word: monopoly
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08-20-2007, 01:16 PM
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lolwut? Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,106
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man this makes me mad! In the Digg article (same just expanded with more info) the CEO said that just becuaes you buy a 49.99 3mbps dl plan, doesent mean you have the right to block up the network by using all of it. Which is total BS. I might be moving to roadrunner, does roadrunner have this cap also? | |
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