Sucks to be a Comcast customer

[Pleb]

http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/08/21/comcast-is-starting-the-tiered-internet-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

fuckers :@

[Jimmy James]

I was wondering why torrents were slow as hell lately...

[Dymond]

Mine is still going well, in fact I just checked my u-torrent at lunch and I was seeding at around 38 kb/s which is about as fast as Comcast's craptastic upload speed allows. I wonder though if that program they talked about only checks for the standard torrent port which I'm not using.

[Jimmy James]

Mine is still going well, in fact I just checked my u-torrent at lunch and I was seeding at around 38 kb/s which is about as fast as Comcast's craptastic upload speed allows. I wonder though if that program they talked about only checks for the standard torrent port which I'm not using.

lol, I upload at like 200 kb/s usually

[Dymond]

lol, I upload at like 200 kb/s usually

They've got it throttled to 400 KB/sec upload here. Supposedly if I have Comcast Cable their is a speed bump and they remove the upload cap.

[Jimmy James]

They've got it throttled to 400 KB/sec upload here. Supposedly if I have Comcast Cable their is a speed bump and they remove the upload cap.

yeah that's what I did, went and got the most basic cable package possible and it makes out internet cheaper and faster, so I break even cash wise.

it will spike over 500 Kb/s, but it holds steady around 200 Kb/s upload

[hoos]

Hey dy, why use a different port? And what does the port actually do?

[Dymond]

Because Cable companies will throttle certain ports and I know they are trying to do that with Torrent traffic.

Well think of a port like a port! Its a send/recieve area where programs/processes send out information and expect to find it when it returns. Certain programs by default use certain ports. Like the http protocol used by your web browsers uses port 80 and the FTP protocol uses Port 20 and 21. The cool part is if you send from a port to another machine it will send the package back to the same port. Thats why you can get around throttling by changing the port. I think I use 59072 for my Torrent traffic.

[Pleb]

I think I use 59072 for my Torrent traffic.

September 5th, 2007 - USA

Internet provider Comcast today announced that they are including port 59072 in their throttled port blacklist in an attempt to further curb the internet piracy business of the notorious hacker 'Diamond' Dave.

Source: AP


:P

[Dymond]

September 5th, 2007 - USA

Internet provider Comcast today announced that they are including port 59072 in their throttled port blacklist in an attempt to further curb the internet piracy business of the notorious hacker 'Diamond' Dave.

Source: AP


:P

LMFAO Nice one!

[Colonel Sanders]

400KBS UpSpeed are you serious!?

Shit I thought that type of Up speed was only available in like sweeden or some shit, never knew you could get that in the states unless you had direct unrestriced fiber. meh shows me how much I know.

I've never expereinced over 60 Up Speed.

[Jimmy James]

40KBS UpSpeed are you serious!?

Shit I thought that type of Up speed was only available in like sweeden or some shit, never knew you could get that in the states unless you had direct unrestriced fiber. meh shows me how much I know.

I've never expereinced over 60 Up Speed.

dial up is 56k....

[Colonel Sanders]

uh 56K down maybe. I wouldn't really know I've only had cable all my life. I'm just saying I've never experienced over 60KBS Up and never over 500KBS down.

[curlybogtrotter]

I've had over 1200 down once, but up I don't think I've ever had over 100

[Jimmy James]

comcast must like me then...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a395/tylerdurden619/Capture2.png

[Zeus]

Found this on lifehacker

Optimize bittorrent to outwit traffic shaping ISPs

http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=optimize_bittorrent_to_outwit_ traffic_shaping_isps;action=display;category=Play

[Colonel Sanders]

I meant 400 UP by the way on my first post. lol

No wonder

[Dymond]

Found this on lifehacker

Optimize bittorrent to outwit traffic shaping ISPs

http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=optimize_bittorrent_to_outwit_ traffic_shaping_isps;action=display;category=Play

That was good stuff.. I've been watching my BT and I'm not seeing anything strange going on yet.