Comments on: Is your ISP filtering your P2P traffic?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:11:06 +0000

Apparently, Verizon has been working with a company called P4P to make filesharing more cost efficient, while allowing users to continue filesharing with little or no trouble.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/24/verizon_p4p_filesharing/

By: Ottawa Gal

Ottawa Gal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:39:37 +0000

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:22:13 +0000

“He saw it coming a mile away and was the first to report it.”

Actually, Ottawa Gal saw it coming. All I did was publish her research, and was glad to do so

Cheers!

By: Ottawa Gal

Ottawa Gal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:11:38 +0000

Also, “Some loyal members of Teksavvy have banded together and created a make-shift mission control website of information on this incident. www.freeourbandwidth.com ”

Feel free to give them the links in the previous post.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:08:18 +0000

“Jon, what is missing from your story is that Bell is throttling INDEPENDENT providers. You don’t have to be a customer of Bell to be throttled.”
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Refer to:
1. Price- and bandwidth fixing? Competition fixing? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15361

2. Bell-Sympatico P2P throttling: more http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15383

3. Bell-Not-So-Sympatico: throttling P2P http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15395

Jon covered this story (and more) before it hit the news. He saw it coming a mile away and was the first to report it.

It builds upon, Bell Sympatico P2P Black List http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13883

Here is more to make you giggle:
p2pnet talks to ISP TekSavvy http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13958
Big Brother Sympaico http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9205

Maybe a new story could be the Bell users cancelling their phone, TV and internet services in disgust and actually switching to teksavvy now in protest!

If you have more to add or a different take. Let him know….

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:46:24 +0000

Jon, what is missing from your story is that Bell is throttling INDEPENDENT providers. You don’t have to be a customer of Bell to be throttled.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:15:12 +0000

For starters, go here http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15395 and follow the story links.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:56:58 +0000

I am not a Bell customer, I am paying for bandwidth with another ISP, yet Bell decides to slow me down.

Jon, could you cover this story?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080325.wgtinternet26/BNStory/Technology/home

it is also on Arstechnica.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:18:14 +0000

@ Ryan Scheel

Already done > http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15345

But thanks.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:34:06 +0000

Xfire, WoW’s updater, and a lot of other legit programs use bittorrent to deliever updates or other types of information.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:46:45 +0000

In the US comcast just limits the upload speed to 40KB/s. I discovered this when I used a bit torrent app to download a ~400 MB mod for one of my games.
For those who say might be just pirating some random data, it was the Pirobi mod for a game called “Stalker: shadows of Chernobyl”. The torrent was found in the forum belonging to the creators of this game.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:08:04 +0000

CableOne claims to have bandwidth restrictions after 2 gigs is downloaded but it’s solely for bittorrent applications. After the two gigs, and a bittorrent client is still running, they start to reset your connection constantly. They claim to cut your speed in half also, not the case. Just solely for bittorrent applications.

By: Ryan Scheel

Ryan Scheel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:06:34 +0000

Hey, I can’t find any other way of contacting you, but can you do a story about this: http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html

Feel free to delete this comment when read.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:47:48 +0000

Among major US Telcos, neither AT&T nor Verizon throttle
or shape p2p traffic. But as for cable companies, it’s a different
story. Comcast, Cablevision, RCN and Adelphia all prevent
seeding, while Time Warner throttles both BitTorrent and NNTP
(Usenet) traffic.