MarkyD
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join:2002-08-20
Oklahoma City, OK
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 ·Cox HSI
| reply to jmccorm
Re: [OK] Cox doesn't mess with Bittorrent traffic, does it?
I am starting to think that Cox is using Sandvine in a testing phase in certain markets, OKC being one of them. I personally know of four people that are noticing BitTorrent slowdowns (significant) on Cox in OKC. When I was running Cox and AT&T side by side for a few days, I started one torrent on my AT&T connection and was able to max out my connection with it. The download on Cox was stuck at 80KB/sec.
I have no proof that Cox is doing anything...just observations.
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| said by MarkyD  :I am starting to think that Cox is using Sandvine in a testing phase in certain markets, OKC being one of them. Easy to verify if you use utorrent, view the clients and if you see them connect and immediately disconnect, its sandvine or similar quality of service degradation service.
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robertfl
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join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL | Just for this, we should be able to get our full download speed on newsgroups, not 512K
-Rob |
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jmccorm
join:2003-08-17
Tulsa, OK
|  reply to MarkyD
said by MarkyD :I am starting to think that Cox is using Sandvine in a testing phase in certain markets, OKC being one of them. Actually, I brought up the topic because I suspect that Cox is interfering with my connection.
I recently had the rare need to provide a file to my team via Bittorrent. This time around, I noticed all sorts of problems (individual upstream connections going to 0kB/s after 10 seconds). And all sorts of randomness, rarely able to even come close (not to mention sustain) my self-imposed cap of 30kB/s.
I would have suspected a problem with up my upstream path, but my FTPs are 100% rock solid. Back to Bittorrent... I tried downloading off of a public torrent server, and was able to download just great, but my upload throughput was weak and random.
Example FTP stats...
> 9558016 bytes sent in 140.65Seconds 67.96Kbytes/sec.
Has anyone from Cox answered the original question, or has a response been avoided so far? "Cox doesn't mess with Bittorrent traffic, does it?" |
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MarkyD
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join:2002-08-20
Oklahoma City, OK
clubs: | I find it interesting that we're both in Oklahoma and noticing similar behavior. |
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bom619
join:2002-06-14
San Diego, CA | Having unpredictable results in San Diego as well. New behavior... very strange. |
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robertfl
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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 |
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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?" |
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Pyrion
Liquid Metal Nanomorph
join:2001-12-01
Poway, CA
clubs:
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·Cox HSI
| 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.
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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? |
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Pyrion
Liquid Metal Nanomorph
join:2001-12-01
Poway, CA
clubs: | I'm not asking a question, I'm pointing out a flaw in reasoning. |
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spanglo
Premium
join:2004-05-17
San Diego, CA
| reply to MarkyD
said by MarkyD :I am starting to think that Cox is using Sandvine in a testing phase in certain markets, OKC being one of them. I personally know of four people that are noticing BitTorrent slowdowns (significant) on Cox in OKC. When I was running Cox and AT&T side by side for a few days, I started one torrent on my AT&T connection and was able to max out my connection with it. The download on Cox was stuck at 80KB/sec. I have no proof that Cox is doing anything...just observations. Sounds like a hell of a observation to me. |
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