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« on: September 06, 2007, 03:54:35 AM »
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com

It appears that Comcast has stepped up their fight against BitTorrent by outright cutting off users’ transfers and blocking their ability to seed downloads.

ISPs have been limiting the available bandwidth for BitTorrent traffic for almost two years now, according to TorrentFreak, and though BitTorrent protocol encryption seems to work against most forms of traffic shaping, Comcast’s more aggressive throttling methods can’t be circumvented just as easy.

It is reported that Comcast is using an application from Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic. Sandvine breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if it’s not a Comcast user. This makes it virtually impossible to seed a file, especially in small swarms without any Comcast users.

ISPs have long argued that bandwidth-hungry P2P applications can cripple their network and thus some controls are due in order to make the experience good for all users. However, customers aren’t likely to agree that limiting their internet connections is an acceptable solution.

TorrentFreak says setting up a secure connection through VPN or over SSH seems to be the only workarounds for Comcast’s throttling methods.

Sandvine---->http://www.sandvine.com/

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« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2007, 03:04:00 PM »
you also have to look at it from a financial aspect: traffic from one isp to the other is expensive. which gives the isp ample reason to not want this huge bandwidth load on their inter-isp connections. especially since the isp ends up paying for connections that are in many cases illegal.
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« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2007, 03:15:23 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2007, 03:41:33 PM »
The only thing I want to point out about this is that there has been a federal mandate in place for years now to limit the amount of information that a customer can upload and download in a given amount of time. It's called the Fair Access Policy. Granted, individual ISPs are free to actually set the limitations for their own individual users, depending on packages and whatnot. But the point is, this is only another facet of the Fair Access Policy. If someone get's pissed off about the fact that they are having their download and upload usage throttled back, then they should stop with the dirty movies they are obsessed with and use the internet for more important things.
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« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2007, 04:44:07 PM »
you can download all the pr0n you want legally. you just have to pay for the proper sites.
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« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2007, 04:50:01 PM »
I'll agree with that, but downloading such materials eats up your bandwidth usage. And I know that several people use programs like BitTorrent to download massive amounts of that type of information. Hence, Fair Access Policy violations, decreased speeds, all sorts of nasties.
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« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2007, 08:43:37 PM »
I use 'BitChe' (if you are unsure about it, google it - a very neat program that doesn't need the .netframework); also Chip the creator (from DietK) is one intelligent mofo and there are scripts to many torrent sites where you can download programs\software\shareware legally without a hitch.

And as far as the article reads, those Comcast users who use torrent (seed) should implement the VPN - SSH protocol

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