GNG News Guy
02-25-2008, 06:50 PM
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Comcast, under investigation by the FCC for throttling upstream p2p traffic with forged packets, fielded questions today at an FCC hearing at Harvard on traffic shaping. Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen, using the stock semantic responses we're all familiar with by now, took aim at critics by suggesting that tests showing they forge TCP packets were "nothing more than a failed experiment." From PC Magainze (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2269842,00.asp):Comcast denied blocking BitTorrent or any other file-sharing application, and said that an Associated Press article that first accused the cable provider of blocking P2P sites had too narrow a focus and was nothing more than a failed experiment. "My understanding is that the delaying that was occurring during the AP test was not blocking and not degrading the P2P service when it is used the way it is designed to be used," Cohen said.
Interestingly, Cohen broke the news at the hearing that Comcast is currently under investigation by NY's Attorney General (http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/tdameritrade-com/html-story.asp?guid={29f8eaf0-7dcf-4fb6-8653-6f0525906a40}). If you recall, NY's AG recently busted Verizon Wireless (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/88727) for selling 5GB capped EVDO service as "unlimited." Comcast wisely stopped advertising their service as unlimited several years ago, in part thanks to our user reports that the company was booting high-consumption users from the network.
Interestingly, Broadband Reports user Robb Topolski, who was the first to discover the practice (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r18323368-Comcast-is-using-Sandvine-to-manage-P2P-Connections) (though the AP is often credited), continues to track Comcast's traffic shaping and says that Comcast appears to have backed off throttling Gnutella and EDDonkey traffic (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r20055371-). However, the company's effort to throttle BitTorrent seems to have actually doubled in recent weeks.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NY-Attorney-General-Investigating-Comcast-92153)
Comcast, under investigation by the FCC for throttling upstream p2p traffic with forged packets, fielded questions today at an FCC hearing at Harvard on traffic shaping. Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen, using the stock semantic responses we're all familiar with by now, took aim at critics by suggesting that tests showing they forge TCP packets were "nothing more than a failed experiment." From PC Magainze (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2269842,00.asp):Comcast denied blocking BitTorrent or any other file-sharing application, and said that an Associated Press article that first accused the cable provider of blocking P2P sites had too narrow a focus and was nothing more than a failed experiment. "My understanding is that the delaying that was occurring during the AP test was not blocking and not degrading the P2P service when it is used the way it is designed to be used," Cohen said.
Interestingly, Cohen broke the news at the hearing that Comcast is currently under investigation by NY's Attorney General (http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/tdameritrade-com/html-story.asp?guid={29f8eaf0-7dcf-4fb6-8653-6f0525906a40}). If you recall, NY's AG recently busted Verizon Wireless (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/88727) for selling 5GB capped EVDO service as "unlimited." Comcast wisely stopped advertising their service as unlimited several years ago, in part thanks to our user reports that the company was booting high-consumption users from the network.
Interestingly, Broadband Reports user Robb Topolski, who was the first to discover the practice (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r18323368-Comcast-is-using-Sandvine-to-manage-P2P-Connections) (though the AP is often credited), continues to track Comcast's traffic shaping and says that Comcast appears to have backed off throttling Gnutella and EDDonkey traffic (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r20055371-). However, the company's effort to throttle BitTorrent seems to have actually doubled in recent weeks.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NY-Attorney-General-Investigating-Comcast-92153)