Comments on: Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling Acceptable? Not Quite!

By: Comcast Wants to Slow Your Transfers (Again)

Comcast Wants to Slow Your Transfers (Again) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:36:57 +0000

[...] battle began when reporters discovered last year that Comcast was limiting or even blocking BitTorrent transfers by its users. Just weeks ago, FCC commissioners ruled that was a violation of a communication law [...]

By: broadband gets disconnected frequently!

broadband gets disconnected frequently! — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:14:41 +0000

[...] for example) have been known to throttle or otherwise interfere with bittorrent connections. Link The FCC recently slapped them down, but it will be hard to enforce. Link They have a new scheme [...]

By: Comcast: The More You Surf, The Slower Your Speed

Comcast: The More You Surf, The Slower Your Speed — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:00:32 +0000

[...] now, that Comcast first made waves over reports last year claiming it was intentionally slowing BitTorrent transfers to improve its overall network speed. The FCC formally issued its penalty just a day ago, saying [...]

By: Zwartbaard » Blog Archive » Decluttering The Tubes, Solutions to the BitTorrent "Problem"?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:06:17 +0000

[...] downside: Customers begin to despise you. Here at TorrentFreak we have discussed some of these alternatives before, and in the long run there is really only one solution that is [...]

By: Zwartbaard » Blog Archive » BitTorrent Developers Introduce Comcast Busting Encryption

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:05:36 +0000

[...] wholeheartedly agree with Ashwin on this one, as we’ve said before. The Internet is only a few years old, if the plan is to keep using it in the future, ISPs need to [...]

By: Zwartbaard » Blog Archive » Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:01:45 +0000

[...] to their customers,” the Glasnost team writes. We couldn’t agree more of course, as we have said many times [...]

By: Yay! I’m Finally Getting Verizon FiOS to My House

Yay! I’m Finally Getting Verizon FiOS to My House — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:20:06 +0000

[...] Comcast hopes to compete with all the horrible press they’ve gotten recently (that throttling mess, impending overage fees, hacking, etc.), not to mention that their coax technology won’t be [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:33:51 +0000

You all must be patient. thats it fios is quickly becoming the dominant isp and will soon spread to your area, so until the keep ruining comcasts bandwith while u wait, maybe if you do it enough theyll go out of buisiness

By: Something this way comes | Nulledge.net

Something this way comes | Nulledge.net — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:03:15 +0000

[...] Perhaps one of the most unsettling things that I have read today is Comcast’s decision to start injecting their own ads into their users web traffic and pass it off as “enhanced user experience”. I don’t run ads here on Nulledge, but my hope is that if I ever do, Comcast won’t unilaterally decide to insert their ads over my own and cheat me out of my revenue. Why do they think that this is a good idea? Why is it OK with them to throw their weight around and steal revenue and yet cry and moan when people use a little too much of their bandwidth. [...]

By: Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic? | Clint Is A Geek.com

Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic? | Clint Is A Geek.com — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:28:28 +0000

[...] customers,” the Glasnost team writes. We couldn’t agree more of course, as we have said many times [...]