GNG News Guy
03-31-2008, 10:38 AM
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Robb Topolski is the Broadband Reports user who discovered (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r18323368-Comcast-is-using-Sandvine-to-manage-P2P-Connections) Comcast's packet-forgery traffic shaping nearly half a year before the Associated Press made the practice national news. He reminds us that while the company is getting plenty of hugs and kisses from the press for last week's announcement (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/Comcast-Claims-Theyll-Stop-BitTorrent-Throttling-93022) that they'll be changing their ways, nothing has actually changed (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r20245359-Internet-Freedom-ReportDay-1-Comcast-Kills-63-of-BT-Traff) yet. For whatever reason, Comcast says it will take the remainder of the year to cure themselves of their BitTorrent-crushing wickedness. Meanwhile, a new run of the same test used nearly a year ago finds that 63% of BitTorrent traffic (95 out of 150 established connections) are being disrupted (torn down using the RST flag) on the Comcast network.
Robb Topolski is the Broadband Reports user who discovered (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r18323368-Comcast-is-using-Sandvine-to-manage-P2P-Connections) Comcast's packet-forgery traffic shaping nearly half a year before the Associated Press made the practice national news. He reminds us that while the company is getting plenty of hugs and kisses from the press for last week's announcement (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/Comcast-Claims-Theyll-Stop-BitTorrent-Throttling-93022) that they'll be changing their ways, nothing has actually changed (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r20245359-Internet-Freedom-ReportDay-1-Comcast-Kills-63-of-BT-Traff) yet. For whatever reason, Comcast says it will take the remainder of the year to cure themselves of their BitTorrent-crushing wickedness. Meanwhile, a new run of the same test used nearly a year ago finds that 63% of BitTorrent traffic (95 out of 150 established connections) are being disrupted (torn down using the RST flag) on the Comcast network.