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So I have had one helluva time dealing with torrent downloads… They effectively blast resets to all ports across the board every 2 minutes or less… IM gets disconnected, VoIP dies, etc.

So finally I complete a download… now guess what? I’m seeding on Comcast at 80kbit… WTF? It seems like perhaps they are mixing up the interference between seeding at some points and leeching on others?

I thought this was absurd until I read that some folks can’t seed more than a few kbps.

I can’t even guess how many stress-filled hours I’ve wasted tweaking router and torrent configuration settings trying to resolve the issue, come to find out there was never a solution.

Good thing I chose the “upgraded” package. I will cancel this immediately and demand a refund of the additional $10. Unfortunately, Comcast is the only option downtown so I don’t have any alternative.

Is anyone else having issues with uploading to web storage sits as well?

I’m a musician and I setup an account with one to join in on exchanging original music files with friends around the world in order to collaborate and tweak each others projects. They can upload their large project files(up to 1 gig) in about an hour and I can download them very quickly but my uploads are limited to 6.6-26kbps!!! It’s almost unbearable and effectively negates my ability to collaborate with my friends.

I did work for them and I can recall several tech meetings where they advised us of what was going on and seeing several techs going postal about it and telling them they were nuts for implementing such a thing because the customers would be irate.

Many of those techs of course ended up in “Private Meetings” with the manager” Of course at those meetings we were told that this was proprietary Com-Cast information and not to share it with the public etc.Well I’m not bound to their bullshit anymore and I can tell you that they are throttling back speeds and it has nothing to do with”Power Boost” which only favors legitimate downloads like from that crappy company they own Rhapsody or Microsoft etc.There are several articles in the news about ComCast and Net Neutrality as well as their bit shaping programs that cut your speed way down.If you believe them then your blind.

I got sick of working for those thieves for many many reasons much of which was their disdain for the customer which the corporation swears to help with their “Stop the trouble calls” campaign etc.If you as a tech go to bat for the customer you will find yourself in the unemployment line.

They also set up installations all the time and make promises to customers they cant keep.They in the appointment center will deliberately set up the install date and send a tech out only to find out they have no cable etc when they knew this already.The main thing of course is to bullshit the prospective client into thinking they will get service and then have the poor tech try and smooth the customers nerves and try and resolve the issue and hope for the best.

I used to work for TCI and then it became AT&T which many people hated but left before the ComCast take over and later went back to what was definitely a different company which was so greedy it made me sick.

I’m not gong to address the morals of downloading or uploading illegal music etc but I do feel that Com-Cast has overstepped its boundaries and has been lying for way too long.They are already in deep water on a few issues -Dont believe me ? Check for yourself.

One example would be a lawsuit that took place in Seattle over a customer who’s private information RE: PASSWORD ETC was published on paper for many to read.Com-Cast once again claimed they never knew of this which was total horse manure because as a tech I used to see it on my work orders everyday.

I could have easily hacked peoples accounts if I chose to which is why I always advised the customer to be involved with the installation and change the password before I left their home.Of course this didn’t stop those morons in the appointment center from republishing it on another work order for the next tech to come out which on many occasions was myself.

When I saw this I was totally pissed that the customers privacy was published like this.I could rant all day on this one but I will stop now and save my breath..

You have to get around their Sandvine, I use a OpenVPN solution from them but I know their regular VPN account works for some.

Maybe if enough of us use VPN they will just give up?

Best of luck, I really hate what Comcast is doing to their customers.

The could scarcely care less. Comcast is a cancer.

I’m in Bellingham, WA also and have noticed an issue with torrents as well. I’m running on Azureus at the moment and ran into a few issues. My down max speed hasn’t been affected, but it takes much much longer to find suitable peers, I assume because seeding is being damaged. My seeds do move sort of. The get up to a fraction of their max and then tend to die out completely a few minutes later only to be resurrected again for a short while. My uploads are maxing at about 25 kb/s if they establish at all. I managed to get this minimal upload capacity by turning on Azureus’ RC4 encryption mode.

To do so yourself, follow this guide:

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Avoid_traffic_shaping

Best o’ Luck,

Fred C. Dobbs

A note: Generally tier 1 and tier 2 support are uninformed about this issue. This information may only apply to the DC/VA/MD area.

- Officially Comcast is not filtering bit-torrent traffic.
- Unofficially Comcast is “upgrading” and “has been doing filtering to help with bandwith.”
- Comcast is currently “doing adjustments” and in the process have been “cutting off alot of people.”
- Resets are being sent (we already knew that one)
- According to the person I spoke to

the filtering of uploaded bit-torrent traffic is a temporary thing, as they are testing it on the network likely to use it for specific *red flag* customers.
- “No Official Date or time when this will stop” But, they “are working on it.”
- A “few” people have called comcast in my area to complain about this issue.

Bottom line seems to be “Wait it out.” I’ve been assured my service will be returned to normal, but no time frame is provided.

PLEASE Call comcast and make some noise about this.[/quote]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! that really cracks me up!

- Comcast is currently “doing adjustments” and in the process have been “cutting off alot of people.”