BabyBearKeep wise ...with Nite-Owl join:2007-01-11
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Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...Maybe Comcast could just do rolling connection blackouts during peak times to save their poor overloaded network. | |
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| en102Canadian, eh? join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA |
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2008-Apr-7 2:48 pm
Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...I'm glad to be using indie DSL-Extreme. I have VERY little issue with the connection as long as AT&T doesn't mess with the line. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...said by en102: as long as AT&T doesn't mess with the line. Yeah guess we'll have to see what those so-called 'piracy' filters decide to drop that AT&T is touting. If they screw that up just half of what they are capable of, could make Comcast's data raping look like a 'hands-off' approach. | |
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hahahaha
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2008-Apr-7 5:41 pm
Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...said by BabyBear:said by en102: as long as AT&T doesn't mess with the line. Yeah guess we'll have to see what those so-called 'piracy' filters decide to drop that AT&T is touting. If they screw that up just half of what they are capable of, could make Comcast's data raping look like a 'hands-off' approach. Since AT&T hands off to DSLExtreme at the ATM layer (layer 2), that's going to be highly difficult. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...Wrong, it hands off at Layer 1, copper pair. Since in the USA almost all competitor ISPs must provide their own DSLAMs/termination modems. This isn't Canada where you get 1 fiber optic cable with all of your customers' ATM PVCs on it. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...said by patcat88:Wrong, it hands off at Layer 1, copper pair. Since in the USA almost all competitor ISPs must provide their own DSLAMs/termination modems. This isn't Canada where you get 1 fiber optic cable with all of your customers' ATM PVCs on it. Wrong. Very few "providers" have their own equipment. They would rather piggyback off of the companies that actually build networks! Hnading off at the cable pair would require the non-LEC ISP's to have DSLAMS in every central office. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...Thats why there is a CLEC like Covad, but Covad and its clones have no interest in throttling. Ma bell does. The CLECs will present a aggregated interface to the ISP. | |
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stfu to patcat88
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2008-Apr-8 1:30 pm
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said by patcat88:Wrong, it hands off at Layer 1, copper pair. Since in the USA almost all competitor ISPs must provide their own DSLAMs/termination modems. This isn't Canada where you get 1 fiber optic cable with all of your customers' ATM PVCs on it. You have no idea what you are talking about. I worked on wholesale DSL for nearly a decade in SBC/ATT. The wholesale subscribers are handed off to the independent ISPs at the ATM level. | |
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| MrMoodyFree range slave Premium Member join:2002-09-03 Smithfield, NC |
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Sshh, don't give them ideas. | |
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2008-Apr-7 3:11 pm
Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...Man you would think the Comcast folks would get tired of seeing all these reports... Maybe it's just me... | |
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2008-Apr-7 3:15 pm
Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...I am tired of it, but what am I going to do? It's comcast, dialup, or no internet. Those are the choices. Comcast knows this, so why should they care? | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...That was how it was for me for a very long time, finally FIOS became available and away I went. | |
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| | | | ropeguru Premium Member join:2001-01-25 Mechanicsville, VA |
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said by yaw:I am tired of it, but what am I going to do? It's comcast, dialup, or no internet. Those are the choices. Comcast knows this, so why should they care? Hahaha... I am waiting for the "Well you just need to move then" people to show up. But I know how you feel. | |
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I'm in pretty much the same boat. I had DSL, but it was so flakey that I just had to give it the boot. So yeah, I have Comcast, but its only because its the only thing I could get around here. That and it was only 10 bucks more than my DSL for a lot more speed. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...Or if Congress and the likes of MS and Google are able to push through more open access. No even better let the NSA get involved. Once they decide that faster and more reliable broadband coast to coast is in the interest of National Security then Comcast (and the others will put up or disappear. Remember the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was set up after the Soviet Union beat the U.S. into space with Sputnik. Its mission was to prevent "technological surprise." If Uncle Sam says "give em them the best (before the Russians beat us to it again)"... I'm kidding of course. I have Comcast. Had Verizon DSL and it sucked and cable was about the same price (cheaper with intro rate). I average 6-7 pass through and 4 while surfing with peak spikes of 15 -21. I'm not seeing a huge difference in downloading video or streaming (which could be the source servers) but over all it is faster. Comcast should stop micro managing the bandwidth and just focus on new subscribers or they'll lose even more market share to FiOS. Ok I'm out of oxygen. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...said by puffgussy36:Comcast should stop micro managing the bandwidth and just focus on new subscribers or they'll lose even more market share to FiOS. Ok I'm out of oxygen. Comcast isn't loosing any serious amount of customers to FIOS. What about all the Comcast markets in ATT/Qwest land? They will never see FIOS (or more generically, FTTP). Next issue, Joe Six Pack doesn't care about speed, its not something he can rationalize. Next, people don't like change. Next people will take the cheaper product, retention offers will do wonders. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...said by patcat88:Comcast isn't loosing any serious amount of customers to FIOS. What about all the Comcast markets in ATT/Qwest land? They will never see FIOS (or more generically, FTTP). Next issue, Joe Six Pack doesn't care about speed, its not something he can rationalize. Next, people don't like change. Next people will take the cheaper product, retention offers will do wonders. Look at last years white papers. Their revenues were down. They (Comcast) admitted they underestimated FiOS as competition in a Businessweek article. Verizon aside, they still have low market saturation in my state, so I still say they should focus on new customers and leave their current ones alone! | |
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They will care when many start to go no internet. lol | |
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said by FicmanS:Man you would think the Comcast folks would get tired of seeing all these reports... Maybe it's just me... Odd thing, I'm not had a problem (like the one posted) or seen any RESET messages since going to CC a month ago. I spend a lot of time on the internet so I would think I would have seen something by now. | |
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Better idea, why not just bill people and provide no service but lots of promises. Basically, let's advertise say 20mbit download with burstable speeds for X amount a month. In reality, give customers a line that doesn't work and still bill them for it. Why not. Essentially, this is what Comcraptic is doing anyway. They are providing a useless line that now interferes with activities (legal and not) that the customer chooses. I guess since Comcast is now the watchdog, the *AA's should sue them when it comes to customer's usage. Since they feel the need to play police, by all means, let them take the fall when their methods still allow traffic to occur. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...Since then Joe Six Pack and grandma will drop the service. Then CC is in deep trouble. | |
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| dvd536as Mr. Pink as they come Premium Member join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ |
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said by BabyBear:Maybe Comcast could just do rolling connection blackouts during peak times to save their poor overloaded network. Or how about this novel idea: UPGRADE THEIR NETWORK! | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...said by dvd536:Or how about this novel idea: UPGRADE THEIR NETWORK! What makes you think they're not upgrading their network? They just rolled out free upgrades from 6/384 to 6/1 and 8/768 to 8/2 here, and added at 50/5 tier. In the last few months they've increased the markets for which they've rolled out Blast! That doesn't happen without some kind of infrastructure investment. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...Increase speed without upgrading, then turn on throttling to surpress the congestion created by the speed upgrade. Perfect idea. | |
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Re: Rollin.. Rollin.. Rollin...said by patcat88:Increase speed without upgrading, then turn on throttling to surpress the congestion created by the speed upgrade. In order to have downstream channel bonding you need DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS hardware with a packet scheduler that understands how to divide the traffic across the channels. You can't fake the new speed upgrades they are starting to roll out. | |
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Cabal Premium Member join:2007-01-21
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Cabal
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2008-Apr-7 2:49 pm
On the other hand... (thinking more after submitting)100 SYN packets per second to the same address is what most engineers would consider a SYN flood. Knocking it down is a good thing. | |
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Re: On the other hand... (thinking more after submitting)said by Cabal:100 SYN packets per second to the same address is what most engineers would consider a SYN flood. Knocking it down is a good thing. Except they still do barely anything about the SPAM coming from infected systems on the Comcast network. | |
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Re: On the other hand... (thinking more after submitting)said by moonpuppy:Except they still do barely anything about the SPAM coming from infected systems on the Comcast network. They deploy port 25 block config files to modems on a regular basis. Unfortunately, it's a reactive approach so it's going to be significantly less effective than other providers who have already walled off external port 25 access. | |
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said by Cabal:Knocking it down is a good thing. Except when you have folks with the Fasterfox Add-on for Firefox that can be used to tweak the number of sessions opened per page. | |
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2008-Apr-7 2:58 pm
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said by Cabal:100 SYN packets per second to the same address is what most engineers would consider a SYN flood. Knocking it down is a good thing. Also, I noticed that if I tune the Firefox addon Fasterfox to a high "max connections per server" value, I can occasionally get a "connection was reset" message. Setting it back to default values eliminated the problem. Maybe all Comcast is doing is adhering to RFC specs and banging those sessions that use too high a value.
Check out the comment on the turbo option.
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said by Cabal:100 SYN packets per second to the same address is what most engineers would consider a SYN flood. Exactly - this will trip DoS mitigation hardware from Cisco, Tipping Point, Checkpoint, Arbor, etc. What next? If I make several connection attempts to DoD network addresses Comcast dispatches the FBI to throttle my connection by taking my hardware? The number of unrelated events that we can relate to Comcast throttling are endless - time to get creative people! | |
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Re: On the other hand... (thinking more after submitting)said by SpaethCo:said by Cabal:100 SYN packets per second to the same address is what most engineers would consider a SYN flood. Exactly - this will trip DoS mitigation hardware from Cisco, Tipping Point, Checkpoint, Arbor, etc. What next? If I make several connection attempts to DoD network addresses Comcast dispatches the FBI to throttle my connection by taking my hardware? The number of unrelated events that we can relate to Comcast throttling are endless - time to get creative people! We have to make a decision, and I think this should be one of those opt-out kind of deals. On the one hand you have a vast multitude of users who have infected computers, and don't know how to control them. On the other hand you have users who may generate traffic that fits the traffic profile of an infected box, but it legitimate. For the sake of protecting the stability of the internet there should be an option to deploy this type of attack mitigation (syn rate limiting) tech to protect home users. Power users or techs should have a way to opt out and of this and simply get the dumb pipe we all have been craving for lately. | |
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| Matt3All noise, no signal. Premium Member join:2003-07-20 Jamestown, NC |
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said by Cabal:100 SYN packets per second to the same address is what most engineers would consider a SYN flood. Knocking it down is a good thing. Doesn't Windows XP in most cases (post-SP2 anyway) have a limit of 10 half-open SYN sessions? So, in reality, the only people this would affect, is the people who have hacked out that limitation ... which is almost guaranteed to be Johnny Bittorrent and his uber leet buddies who think setting uTorrent to 6000 sessions means faster downloads? | |
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pokesphIt Is Almost Fast Premium Member join:2001-06-25 Sacramento, CA |
pokesph
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2008-Apr-7 2:55 pm
RST the RST'shmm perhaps that why some 'normally regular' sites are not opening on the first or second try..
When will this madness end?
FCC? not likely
Customers? Most won't notice it or care. | |
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| BabyBearKeep wise ...with Nite-Owl join:2007-01-11 |
Re: RST the RST'ssaid by pokesph: Most won't notice it or care. And there you have your corporate mantra on screwing your customer (Emperor's Club excluded)! | |
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how to control your network in 3 easy steps1.invent a "bandwidth hogging" bogeyman that can be claimed to be disrupting "regular" customers and using up "scarce" bandwidth
2. put into place equipment that can see what is going across the network and "break" any attempt to use P2P applications
3. after weathering the resultant storm of publicity, quietly implement the full spectrum of "deep packet inspection" capabilities as "regular" network management.
then, just sit back and block, delay or otherwise interfere with any activity that costs the company money or keeps them from making money. | |
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huh?This seems like a pretty cursory examination to me (7 paragraphs and a few screenshots?)
I haven't noticed any changes in web browsing, file downloads, games, or anything else in my Comcast connection -- if all this nefarious packet tinkering is going on it would certainly be disruptive. Hopefully someone will dig deeper and find out exactly what's going on. | |
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Codename:"Sir Lagalot"
A New Comcast Network Protocol management! | |
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dadkinsCan you do Blu? MVM join:2003-09-26 Hercules, CA 2 edits |
All traffic?Uhm... ok. Why is it that on Blast 16mbps service I still see 17+mbps download and ~2.2mbps upload consistently?EDIT: Bolded the question so everyone can see that all I did was ask a simple question. | |
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Testing on SaturdayI think they were forging all the packets on Saturday because it looked like nothing was there. | |
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2008-Apr-7 3:16 pm
Seems to affect online gamingI am a hard core FPS gamer, and I think my intermittant game freezes are because of this as well. | |
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Sounds like Sat.With all this reset stuff and dropping of connections Comcast is starting to be no better that Satellite.. Sure the speed is great. while you have it. At least with Sat. you know when you are going to get whacked.. | |
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Matt3All noise, no signal. Premium Member join:2003-07-20 Jamestown, NC |
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2008-Apr-7 3:32 pm
100 SYN?Nothing but bittorrent generates 100 SYN packets that quickly. So, essentially, they are just stating that if you generate 100 SYN packets WITH ANY PROTOCOL, not just Bittorrent, Comcast is sending fake TCP RSTs. So if you try and establish 100 session to a website (or 1 session to 100 different websites) they'll start throwing TCP RST flags on your sessions.
This won't be noticed by the majority of users out there, as nothing really but bittorrent attempts to open 100 sessions at once. | |
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Re: 100 SYN?said by Matt3:This won't be noticed by the majority of users out there, as nothing really but bittorrent attempts to open 100 sessions at once. I would imagine that business users where there's more than a handful of computers could do this with "normal" traffic. Or perhaps a large family with a bunch of kids + computers. | |
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2008-Apr-7 5:10 pm
Re: 100 SYN?said by sporkme:said by Matt3:This won't be noticed by the majority of users out there, as nothing really but bittorrent attempts to open 100 sessions at once. I would imagine that business users where there's more than a handful of computers could do this with "normal" traffic. Or perhaps a large family with a bunch of kids + computers. Business users is a good point. I also didn't think about a decent sized family of 4 or more computers. Hell 3 simultaneous users connecting to MySpace with it's gazillion separate sessions would eat up 100 in no time I bet. | |
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banditws6Shrinking Time and Distance Premium Member join:2001-08-18 Frisco, TX 1 edit |
Interesting...I've been having a number of new issues with my Comcast connection lately that could be symtompatic of that kind of network management. I'm now getting a high number of "connection was reset" errors while web browsing, and talking via Skype or playing games online has become a constant stream of disconnections and sync problems.
Then again, all I know is what I see. | |
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GTaylor95 Premium Member join:2002-12-14 Frisco, TX |
Wonder if Road Runner is doing the samebecause as of Thursday I've hit a wall on my browser, it'll work for about 2 minutes then all of a sudden will lag, Firefox will show 60-75 second connections to certain sites(popular and lesser known). All anti-virus/rootkit/adware scans came up empty and system resources seemed normal. | |
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| MchartFirst There. join:2004-01-21 Kaneohe, HI |
Mchart
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2008-Apr-7 3:43 pm
Re: Wonder if Road Runner is doing the sameI haven't seen any issues with my RR connection down here in Texas, yet. But you can guarentee the moment I do i'll probably be looking into a DS1 just for file-sharing use. | |
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I noticed the same, or a similar phenomenon intermittently on the weekend on RR. One should not be too quick to attribute it to traffic shaping, though. There could have been other network problems. If it persists or gets worse I will look into it more. | |
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2008-Apr-7 3:40 pm
"protocol agnostic"At least they are now "protocol agnostic"!
Should I switch to FIOS? | |
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i say the FCC should impose heavy finesjust as the EU does, ignoring any thought/policy/political differences between the US and EU. Maybe it is getting to be the time to clearly define what 'network nuetrality', 'reasonable network management', and internet QoS standards for various connection types and speeds.
It wouldn't blow my mind if other ISPs start pulling crap like this. | |
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus join:2001-06-20 Cheyenne, WY 1 edit
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I have a friend who is a Electronic Engineer..... Like Comcast a Kumquat looks good on the outside but is bitter on the inside. |
and computer scientist. Who was part of this study he found "Kumquat" even screws up VoIP traffic. He noticed that whenever he was in conference mode on Skype he would get reset at random intervals. We would be talking away with 4 of 5 in a conference on skype and he would periodically dissappear when he looked into it he found it was Comcast that was resetting his connection. He thinks Comcast is doing this to discourage any VoIP use except it's own. It would seem that when ever there is a prolonged heavy use of band width these random resets happen. Imagine Broadband that acts just list a dial up connection. Unforunately he has no other choice for a broadband connection. | |
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2008-Apr-7 3:47 pm
Is this your typical Comcast user?Data collection methodology We synthetically generated TCP SYN packets at a rate of 100 SYN packets per second using the hping utility [3].
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(topic offline) Throw a fuc*king positive spin on this one RickModerator Action This entire topic was removed, either temporarily, or permanently.
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2008-Apr-7 4:09 pm
I'm curious..how many who are seeing this have recently upgraded to the new Firefox? This seems to have started for me after the last release.
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all this withoutAll this crap, and they don't even have DOCSIS 3.0 yet. Wait until you see what they do then! | |
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