Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
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| reply to Rick
Re: Comcasts position on this sounds pretty clear to me
said by Rick  :Comcast is saying they are not blocking NOR limiting your use of the service. I suspect that those who ARE having this problem are the ones who being flagged for overall and excessive usage while people like you and I aren't affected at all. I call BS on this. The AP and the EFF have both shown that Comcast has been interfering with BitTorrent and even Lotus Notes traffic. I highly doubt the AP and EFF reporters were flagged for excessive use.
I've seen the problem myself and the only thing I use BT for is to download World of Warcraft patches.
Yes Comcast doesn't block downloads via BitTorrent, what they are doing is messing with the uploads and only if the other person is not a Comcast user. Since BT is designed to limit download speeds if the user doesn't upload, it in effect hampers downloads.
A good analogy is if you are talking to someone on the phone and suddenly you hear the other person on the line say "Goodbye" and hang up and they hear you say "Goodbye" and hangup when neither of you did such a thing. If one of you calls back about a minute later the same thing happens again. So technically, if you knew what was happening, you could carry on a conversation by keep calling every time you got disconnected, but since the other person said "Goodbye" you might just assume they don't want to talk anymore and not call back. This is what Comcast is doing with BitTorrent and other types of traffic; faking the "Goodbyes".
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