Comments on: Cox Suckers BitTorrent Users with More Slowdowns

By: stintz

stintz — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:41:32 +0000

Cox is a joke, and hopefully the FCC will step in and do the same thing they did to Comcast when they tried this crap…

http://www.newsadmin.com/usenet_commentary/commentary_02092009.asp

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Linkpost | 1.29.2009 | TechTuneZ — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:14:01 +0000

[...] Cox Suckers BitTorrent Users with More Slowdowns – It’s slowing P2P, FTP and Usenet [...]

By: anon

anon — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:25:22 +0000

lol "cox suckers"

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:56:22 +0000

I'm seriously considering canceling my service with these Cox over this type of activity. Sadly the only other alternative i have in my area is Verizon Fios. Does anyone know of any reports of Verizon attempting this type of bullshit?

By: Youtor

Youtor — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:27:07 +0000

i told you so lol
http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-labels-innocent-c…

By: reacto

reacto — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:47:21 +0000

Logmein is not free

By: M-Lab: Transparency and Freedom at // nobulb

M-Lab: Transparency and Freedom at // nobulb — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:56:22 +0000

[...] and freedom are what the Internet is founded on. All of this business with ISPs trying to manage and prioritize your traffic is an absolute [...]

By: m0jo

m0jo — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:20:43 +0000

Seriously, can't you sue them for that? You pay their wages goddamnit!

Customer pays –> company provides service

.. oh wait that's not how it works is it?

Customer pays –> company tries to do as little as possible right down to not providing the service at all. And then shuts down random customers.

They are called PROVIDERS, this is fucking outragious!

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Linkpost | 1.29.2009 | Samsung News & Info Blog — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:06:10 +0000

[...] Cox Suckers BitTorrent Users with More Slowdowns – It’s slowing P2P, FTP and Usenet [...]

By: GreenTeaa

GreenTeaa — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:31:04 +0000

I don't think people will join you, mainly because it is an inconvience for them and they don't want to get involved with legal issues.

By: GreenTeaa

GreenTeaa — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:30:40 +0000

I don't think people will join you, mainly because it is inconvience for them and they don't want to get involved with legal issues.

By: Cox customer

Cox customer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:36:41 +0000

If I do receive confirmation that this bs happens in vegas Cox, then they can be sure that I will be siwtching to another ISP, and taking as many people as I can with me.

By: Roze

Roze — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:09:31 +0000

They have not stated that they would make any exception for business service connections. Of course, we will have to see, but it does not seem so.

By: Candys Death Mask

Candys Death Mask — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:16:46 +0000

Huh, I have been torrenting with cox's service and I havent noticed any problems or slowing down.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:39:42 +0000

SOrry shoudl have clarified 1.5 Megabytes per second n my download.
on a 8 Mbps(megabits per second) down and 1.0 Mbps (megabit per second) sory shoudl have clarified. still 1.5 megabytes per second is pretty good downlaod an entire dvd single layer in approx 4.7 gig in approx 51 min .
thats preety dman good if your being throttled

By: Intermezzo (27) « Blue Archive

Intermezzo (27) « Blue Archive — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:14:06 +0000

[...] ISP Cox slows down P2P, Usenet and FTP users when the network is congested [...]

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:24:04 +0000

So if you violate your ISP's contract four times and get your internet disconnected upon that result, will you still able to sign up for another ISP that is within your area?

I'm not totally sure about that so that is why I am asking.

By: larrydice

larrydice — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:31:09 +0000

Impossible when there is only one internet solution.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:26:24 +0000

So what happens when websites like Netflix and Hulu start offering HD streaming? In the case of Netflix, I'm paying for that and I'm paying Cox for the connection. I'll be madder than a hornet if I run into frequent interruptions in HD playback because Cox is throttling my connection due to "network congestion."

By: darkstar13

darkstar13 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:18:55 +0000

Yes, basically… article here :

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10151389-93.html…

By: darkstar13

darkstar13 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:17:17 +0000

Yeah, I am worried about Time Warner as well…

By: seps1816

seps1816 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:06:16 +0000

So I moved about 8 or 9 months ago I used to have comcast which when I tried to download
torrents used to slow my whole entire network to a grind when I moved I had to switch to Cox and in a three month span they cut my internet on me twice for downloading, which sucked and was a pain in the ass to get hooked up again. After this happened I wrote a email to my state representative and a few weeks later got a response basically giving me a line of bullshit about how he voted for this and against this but it was a out of state matter and there was nothing he could do. I'll post it up on my blog if anyone is interested in seeing it. I have been also thinking if theres anyway out of my cox contract im most likely going to switch to Fios

By: Senae

Senae — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:49:50 +0000

I don't think that means what you think it means.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:36:27 +0000

When i dont torrent for anything other than free software, or ftp/ssh for work from home, and they cut my speed from 25mb down to 3mb I'm pretty pissed. I'm sorry but work and activities related to work are in fact time sensitive. They need to rethink their model or I'm certain that they will be facing a fairly decent legal bout.

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Loganotron » Blog Archive » Best News Headline Ever — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:42:30 +0000

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By: whereareu

whereareu — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:54:16 +0000

WHERE ARE ALL THE HACKERS? WHY DON'T THEY DO SOMETHING…

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:30:39 +0000

We all have to hide somehow now. Encrypt your bittorent traffic, use open proxies. John http://openprox.info

By: Conscious Junkyard

Conscious Junkyard — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:23:43 +0000

School District Funding, high-speed internet service?…

Could local school districts get grants to become competitive broadband ISPs to their surrounding communities? ……

By: SudoSeth » Cox to Begin Throttling Multiple Protocols: At least I’ll have FiOS Soon

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:22:12 +0000

[...] to a new report by Torrent Freak, Cox will soon begin throttling all FTP, Bittorent, Usenet, and possibly other forms of “Non time sensitive” traffic. [...]

By: Putr

Putr — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:15:07 +0000

First of all I'm from Slovenia and i have not yet experienced any throtoling.
I read the contract and it does not alow uploading/downloding of iligal material, but thats it. They only reserve the right to disconnect the connection in case of maintinence. So as my contract go, they cant do it. But you all should check your contract as I have a feeling that this is a legal gray zone so if you try and downlode some totaly legal thing (Linux distro from bittorrent) and you a throteled, show this as evidance and I think they are gonna have a problem explaining that.

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Cox Suckers BitTorrent Users with More Slowdowns « Internet Making Money — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:46:51 +0000

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By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:51:25 +0000

So lemme get this straight – you people pay for Cox? :P

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:50:32 +0000

What could they hope to gain? Well, lower bandwidth usage to start with. Which means more is available to sell to other customers.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:49:14 +0000

I'd guess that FTP used on business service connections would not be throttled.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:48:27 +0000

They may – however the proportion of users using DCC (or fserve… wait does anybody use fserve these days?) is tiny compared to p2p.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:16:30 +0000

"Them". You know "them" right? "They" are trying to stop freedom of speech, sex before marriage and have a microphone in your house at this moment. I'm surprised you haven't heard of "them".

If you try to dispute me on this then it means you are one of "them" OK!

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:13:32 +0000

Wow – you get up to 1.5 MB/s on a 8kb/s connection. Amazing! They aren't throttling people, they're giving them more bandwidth than they signed up for!

By: dude099

dude099 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:13:08 +0000

i'm a cox subscriber in arkansas…. :'(

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:08:50 +0000

Read the small print – I'd say no it isn't. Contracts generally allow ISP's to do as they see fit to any traffic on their own network.

But check it regardless of what I say.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:05:52 +0000

What the hell are you talking about? IPv6 may or may not become ubiqitous but it's got nothihg to do with speed, throttling or BT particuarly.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:14:15 +0000

I work for COX ABUSE DEPARTMENT.
We do not work with the RIAA accualy teh way it works we receive a complaint form them.
we set an abuse code on the acct and call you and tellyou delete the file. and remove the abuse code . essentially if you are found violating this 4 times your acct is terminated.
Rather than give up your information to the RIAA and protecting YOUR INFORMATION.
and keeping it form the RIAA. wed rather ust cut you off so your protected on that end.
and you say your cox suckers. so what your bit torrent is throttled which isnt proven cause i get 1.1-1.5 MB per second download. on a 8kbps down speed on my bit torrent client.
just be sure to make your ip and you guys should be fine use a proxy thats tehbest way around the system and Spoof your MAC youll be fine.
hope this clears things up

By: everybody

everybody — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:54:08 +0000

Actually, a lot of the traffic being slowed down has important usages.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:50:32 +0000

what happens if u stop using p2p, does the internet go back to usual?

By: shawn

shawn — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:18:50 +0000

Can Cox diffrentiate between xbox-live and Torrent dloads? Maybe that's why my online gaming experience is not great some days?

By: Bobo

Bobo — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:40:23 +0000

Actually, Cox users appreciate being protected from having all of their bandwidth sucked up by their neighbors Bittorrent seeds.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:13:31 +0000

I hope IPv6 comes sooner that later…That'll teach those Cox Suckers for good.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:01:18 +0000

Easier said that done, most areas don't have many options. Every single day at 6pm they throttle my internet to the point I can't load a webpage and there are no alternatives.

By: Jalama

Jalama — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:51:51 +0000

Watch out! You can get banned by Digg for such a flippant play on words unless that COX Sucker that runs it agrees with you.

By: John Meison

John Meison — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:43:59 +0000

Dang, Usenet AND FTP? What the heck man!

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