how-to block ads
|
|
view: topics flat text |
|
Comments on news posted 2007-09-04 18:30:59: When we started talking about Comcast's efforts to limit BitTorrent seeding by forging TCP Reset (RST) packets, some users were angry that Comcast was "violating the legitimacy" of the TCP protocol. ..
|
 macguy1
join:2007-08-18
Bloomfield, NJ | Ok, I have some questions. I have a question for the people who are claiming this is a good thing because it's stopping people from using bit torrent so much that it will slow down their internet connection.
Has your internet connection gotten any faster since they started shaping traffic?
I doubt it. Stop rambling on about supporting them, acting like it's doing something for you when it's not.
I don't care if bit torrent is used for illegal things. The issue isn't what bit torrent is being used for, it's the fact that comcast is forging packets and preventing use of a certain protocol. | |
| | | Other RST connections I've noticed in the past year (including a little while before Comcast took over for Adelphia here) that even when I upload photos to my hosted website (I'm a photographer) that I can't upload them in full sets anymore without the connection being reset. I used to upload a batch of 1000 photos (~150k each) using ftp without any problem, but now if I try to upload over 50 at a time, I'm almost guarenteed a lost connection. So it's not just BitTorrent users affected. These photos are legally shot and owned by me, and being uploaded to my website so my clients can download them. 100% legal. | |
| | | no thread for verizon DSL on this board, but they're doing what comcast is doing, at least in the new york metro area. i suggest everyone reading this thread go to
»action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet
and do something about it. perhaps it's not much but it's a start. yes, i like p2p, but the even bigger issue is that if they get away with ANY content specific filtering we're only 15 minutes away of the death of the entire internet as we used to know it. | |
| NbWY1
join:2003-05-23
Columbia, MD | I HATE Comcast. Really though, my subject header sums it all up. I really hate Comcast. In the condominium complex I live in, Comcast owns some sort of "Exclusive Rites agreement" over cable TV. Or else my money would be with Verizon. And, while Verizon claims they cannot supply me with CATV, I'm fully eligible for FiOS phone, and my current 15/2 FiOS internet. All that comes to mind is the PacketStorm moto, Evolve or Die. Eat shit Comcast. | |
|
| |
|
