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MarkyD
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join:2002-08-20
Oklahoma City, OK

reply to jmccorm

Re: [OK] Cox doesn't mess with Bittorrent traffic, does it?

I find it interesting that we're both in Oklahoma and noticing similar behavior.

bom619

join:2002-06-14
San Diego, CA

Having unpredictable results in San Diego as well. New behavior... very strange.


robertfl
Premium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL

Are ISPs going to bed with the RIAA/MPAA? talk about censorship and btw, their ads say "download movies/music at blazing speeds"

-Rob


jmccorm

join:2003-08-17
Tulsa, OK

reply to bom619

said by bom619:

Having unpredictable results in San Diego as well. New behavior... very strange.
This guy was also complaining about BitTorrent uploading problems, in San Diego, but he got lost in a bunch of noise of people, who aren't Cox employees, telling him there isn't a problem:
»[CA] Packet Shaping, San Diego

I download IPFW and added the following firewall rule...
deny tcp from any to me 6881 tcp flags rst
...and ran another test. In a period of 5 minutes, the firewall rule detected OVER 2000 RST packets on the BitTorrent port.

I didn't run a packet sniffer on both sides of a BitTorrent connection to prove that fake RST packets are being generated, but I think I've proved to my own satisfaction that Cox is engaging in Comcast-like behavior. Even still, I want an answer from a Cox employee who can speak authoritatively on this.

The question, again: "Does Cox interfere, in any way, with BitTorrent traffic?"


Pyrion
Liquid Metal Nanomorph

join:2001-12-01
Poway, CA
kudos:1

reply to robertfl

said by robertfl:

Are ISPs going to bed with the RIAA/MPAA? talk about censorship and btw, their ads say "download movies/music at blazing speeds"

-Rob
Note the lack of the keyword "illegally" in that statement.
--
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

jmccorm

join:2003-08-17
Tulsa, OK

said by Pyrion:

Are ISPs going to bed with the RIAA/MPAA? talk about censorship and btw, their ads say "download movies/music at blazing speeds"

Note the lack of the keyword "illegally" in that statement.


I think that you both have a good question for Cox, just you are asking it in different ways:

Assuming Cox is interfering with BitTorrent...
1] Are they doing this to partially curtail piracy on their network?
2] Or are they doing it to preserve more free bandwidth on their network?


Pyrion
Liquid Metal Nanomorph

join:2001-12-01
Poway, CA
kudos:1

I'm not asking a question, I'm pointing out a flaw in reasoning.


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