YoYoBallz
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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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RE: Comcast changes traffic policies, win for torrents
w00t.
I might be going back to comcast...might.
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28/03/2008 11:43 AM |
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28/03/2008 11:48 AM |
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RE: Comcast changes traffic policies, win for torrents
of all companies!
This is a great turn, a good reason for what they did anyway...
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28/03/2008 11:49 AM |
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squee666
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RE: Comcast changes traffic policies, win for torrents
this also may affect syfe
thank god
also Sensei seed!!!! on scenemachine
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28/03/2008 12:55 PM |
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|-Anubis-|
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RE: Comcast changes traffic policies, win for torrents
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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iggrull
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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
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28/03/2008 04:18 PM |
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SchmilK
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RE: Comcast changes traffic policies, win for torrents
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.
limneosgreen Wrote:Take my advice, don't try to install custom themes ... it's possible to brick ur psp.. why just don't change wallpaper
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28/03/2008 09:03 PM |
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Jomann
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RE: Comcast changes traffic policies, win for torrents
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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