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jmccorm
join:2003-08-17
Tulsa, OK

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

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?"