BTW I’m just trying to ftp up to comcast’s personal webpage servers, videos of a wedding… Throttled waaay down. (*&(^%!!

To avoid most and all Comcast invading your privacy is simply a firewall. Usually what i mean by this is not a software one that comes with microsoft but instead a hardware one, like linksus. a good hub will keep the baddies out.

i have comcast for over 4 years now without any complaint besides being slow at times and cost.

if i do notice comcast trying to force me to use any of their software and refusing me into specific sites i would go dsl.

http://vinnyty.com/pics/ummm.jpg

As for seeding on comcast, I noticed that (on this connection) when using BT normally almost none of your files seed by themselves. I have found, like someone[s] said, changing ports, resetting the modem and forcing seeds will get me up to 60-70 kbps (up). problem is they seem to adapt, dropping me down to 40, then eventually 10 or less. Then it’s a matter of playing with it all again, a task I will gladly partake in to share the wealth.

As for Monday’s hearing in boston, I must say it was a great deal more watchable (yes I watched the whole thing) than C-sPam usually is . (bush speech = insult to my intelligence)
ConCr@p really shot themselves in the foot this time. The FCC commissioner asked like 3 times “does bit torrent technology allow users to gain more bandwidth than the limit (i.e max speeds) that is being sold to them?”
the answer was, all three times: NO

The FCC was not at all amused (especially with the whole ’seat-warmers’ fiasco) by C0NCraps snake oil wheeling and dealings. It’s not just this incident, this company has a rap sheet a mile long of shady bullcrap they pull every day and steal ppl’s hard earned money. I say it’s about they got their karma for being such a cocky brat.

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –dport *x* –tcp-flags RST RST -j DROP

This will kill the RST requests before they hit your app..

Nice, USA is indeed slipping behind. The Netherlands….many providers in any city. Just like the rest of the EU.