Comcast’s War Against BitTorrent
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Well, I guess I have another reason to quit using Comcast:
Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
Written by Ernesto on August 17, 2007
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. More…
Tags: comcast, bittorrent, freedom, shadowmyth, lockergnome
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Exothermic Reaction
August 27th, 2007
at 4:49pm
Is Comcast going to start mirroring all of the Linux Distro’s for download within their network? Bit Torrent is not just being used for illegal downloads, more and more companies are embracing it’s powerful distribution technology for delivering products that would otherwise cost them an arm and a leg to host themselves.
Exo
shadowmyth
August 27th, 2007
at 5:26pm
I have heard similar comments from others on the subject, and I have no clue what they are going to do, to deal with this situation. I think it may in part be wrapped up in their cutting down on bandwidth usage. They are not doing it where I live, but I know they are in other areas of the country. They send customers a message saying they have been using too much bandwidth, and sometimes cut their service off temporarily as a result. I think it just sucks they have not warned their customers about any of their new policies, they just bring it up if it becomes an issue.