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Comcast changes traffic policies, win for torrents
RSLog Wrote:Comcast, the US largest residential Internet provider, said on Thursday that it would take a more equitable approach toward managing the ever-expanding flow of Web traffic on its network. The cable company, based in Philadelphia, has been under relentless pressure from the Federal Communications Commission and public interest groups after media reports last year that it was blocking some Internet traffic of customers who used online software based on the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol. Comcast said it would change its fundamental approach to playing Internet traffic cop.

Instead of interfering with specific online applications, it will manage traffic by slowing the Internet speeds of its most bandwidth-hogging users when traffic is busiest. “In the event of congestion, the half percent of people who are overutilizing an excessive amount of capacity will be slowed down subtly until capacity is restored,” the chief technology officer for Comcast, Tony G. Werner, said. “For the other 99.5 percent, their performance will be maintained exactly as they expect it.” Mr. Werner said he hoped to have the new system in place by the end of the year. The change was part of an announcement by Comcast on Thursday that it had been working with BitTorrent, a company that was co-founded by the creator of the BitTorrent protocol.

The start-up, based in San Francisco and supported by venture capital, helps media companies deliver their files over the Internet using BitTorrent technology. Consumers also use the protocol to share large files like movies. The companies said they have been working together for the last year on ways to optimize BitTorrent applications for the Comcast network. They said they would publish their findings to Web forums and standards groups so that other software makers, peer-to-peer services and I.S.P.’s could adopt them. “What wee really want is not only for Comcast to be a better network but for all networks to be better,” the president of BitTorrent, Ashwin Navin, said. I see the light at the end of the tunnel…

The reason im posting this is because I remember MetalGear had problems with uploading torrents because his ISP was comcast.  Today is your lucky day metal, i think this will fix all of your torrent problems.

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28/03/2008 11:24 AM
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w00t.

I might be going back to comcast...might.


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28/03/2008 11:43 AM
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good for metalgear

28/03/2008 11:48 AM
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of all companies!

This is a great turn, a good reason for what they did anyway...
28/03/2008 11:49 AM
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this also may affect syfe


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28/03/2008 12:55 PM
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As a Comcast customer, it really doesn't matter to me.

I would have stayed a loyal customer either way.

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28/03/2008 01:14 PM
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|-Anubis-| Wrote:As a Comcast customer, it really doesn't matter to me.

I would have stayed a loyal customer either way.

loyal? really? you're totally happy with their service? you are the only one i have ever met
28/03/2008 04:18 PM
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Well that's a nice idea..though im sure your account gets a +1 everytime your ip address requires bandwidth throttling which could be the alterior motive of unsaid future endeavors?!

I have no problems with comcast either..im on the gold package for 8mb down and though i don't do torrents, i have been known to grab 800gb of educational newsgroup messages in a single month.

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28/03/2008 09:03 PM
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iggrull Wrote:
|-Anubis-| Wrote:As a Comcast customer, it really doesn't matter to me.

I would have stayed a loyal customer either way.

loyal? really? you're totally happy with their service? you are the only one i have ever met


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28/03/2008 09:11 PM
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lol, i don't have to hide in the corner from there phone calls anymore :D

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29/03/2008 01:16 PM
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