p2pnet - rss feed: Comcast shaping up
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Yesterday, “Comcast Corp. promised Thursday that it would not discriminate against specific Internet traffic on its network, ending its controversial practice of targeting and blocking file-sharing technologies from San Francisco’s BitTorrent Inc. and others.” [San Francisco Chronicle.]
Then, on dslreports >>>
It’s been more than a day since Comcast and BitTorrent jointly announced in disjointed terms that they’ve made peace with one another and — somehow, by extension, the rest of Comcast’s 13.9 million users and the worldwide Internet in general.
Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
So, I fired up the good old BitTorrent client, set it just as I did 10 months or so ago, and started seeding. After all, forging TCP packets in order to hack the TCP stack was wrong to do — Comcast has admitted that. Half of the press is reporting that Comcast has stopped interfering with P2P traffic! (Comcast, however, has graciously granted itself another 9 months of flying in the face of the IETF Internet Standards, sending forged traffic to both their customers and their customer’s peers out of both sides of Comcast’s network.) But still, certainly someone with ethics works there. Certainly someone would disconnect the damned thing, now admittedly guilty of the subterfuge it has been committing since — what — the summer of 2006?
Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
This time, Comcast was not lying to the press. They have NOT stopped forging packets. They have NOT stopped interfering with P2P uploads. 20 minutes into my test, the level of interference has levelled off to 63% — 95 out of 150 established connections were torn down using the RST flag.
Client is uTorrent 1.77
Encryption is disabled
Client is seeding only (no downloading during the test)
Duration: 20 minutes
Oh, Lord, kumbaya
Stay tuned.
(Thanks, Robb)
Click here for the Canadian version.
would not discriminate - Comcast deals with BitTorrent, March 28, 2008
dslreports - Internet Freedom Report-Day 1: Comcast Kills 63% of BT Traffic, , March 28, 2008
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March 29th, 2008 at 9:32 am
comcrap isn’t going to keep its promise. its money they are seeking and they need to oversell the bandwidth as much as possible and so in the end they will blame someone.
March 29th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Thank God I am moving soon no more comcast there, but a decent ISP. Can’t wait.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:59 am
Wait - so they commit to stopping it once they add more network capacity and work out some stuff with BitTorrent - which could logically take a few months - and folks are still upset? If it was one web server to update, yeah it could be quick, but their network is pretty big. Did you actually think it would happen overnight, particularly when they said it would not.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 am
As someone with experience with Comcast from the inside. The management corporate culture will not change. they are using delaying tactics and excuses for slowdown in traffic in the system on p2p usage. They did this before 1999 and 10 years later they are doing the old tried and true divert the attention strategy again. From the inside I can tell you why but it would not matter. In summary they are out right lying and somehow they have paid the regulators off. (Alot of big cable franchise honchos hated Comcast then and they still hate Comcast now)