Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic

[vinyard]

I now some people here use cable. I'm not sure what company is your ISP but thought I should post this anyway.

Afraid of excessive bandwidth usage, ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for almost two years now. While most ISPs simply limit the available bandwidth for BitTorrent, Comcast has now taken it one step further, and is actively preventing its customers from seeding, if the latest user reports are to be believed. Comcast is not alone in this: Canadian ISPs Cogeco and Rogers use similar methods on a smaller scale. These more aggressive throttling methods can’t be circumvented by simply enabling encryption in a BitTorrent client, as Comcast is reportedly using an application from Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic; the application apparently breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if it’s not a Comcast user, making it virtually impossible to seed a file, especially in small swarms without any Comcast users. Although some users report that they can still connect to a few peers, most of the Comcast customers chiming in have seen a significant drop in upload speed.

Sandvine's throttling works like this: a few seconds after one connects to a peer in the BitTorrent swarm, Sandvine sends a peer reset message (RST flag) and the upload immediately stops. Most vulnerable are users in a relatively small swarm where one only has a few peers to which to upload. However, only seeding seems to be prevented, as most users are able to upload to others while the download is still going; once the download is finished, though, the upload speed drops to 0.

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[.Fila]

well i have cox high speed internet and umm within the past 5-6 years my service has been shutdown on me twice cause of copyright material......one movie was house of wax and the second movie was rush hour 3....both were cam quality also....but the first torrent i downloaded was house of wax but i didnt know what i was doing....so cox zapped my computer and had to reinstall windows all over again cause they fucked it up.... same thing happen happen with rush hour 3.......so the security team at cox communication is taking a look and the incoming and outgoing ..::dont know the word::.. but yea, i dont think its the bittorrent program it self most likely the files and website you download from...so this isn't much info but i just had to put it out there.......thanks for paying attention....

[zero86ea]

holy shit...that sux ass man! hey what site do you d/load from?
and what bit torrent program do u use to d/load?

[.Fila]

good websites for me i go to is http://www.mininova.org and i always download from some fool who puts his name ion the movie files which is the name ''aXXo'' and another aight website i use torrentreactor.net....and the program i use is bittoreent verson 3.4.2 yea its fucking old compared to the ones they use now which is version 6.0 go to bittorrent.com and download it.....you could try finding 3.4.2 version but its going to be fucking hard...ill send it to you but fuck i formatted my hard drive and i had the installer on the hdd...so im like fuck.........im out of luck......need to know anything just let me know..how to convert stream the audio add audio add subtitle....how to telecine a movie using a projector...screen thingy...yea boy!!!......

[zero86ea]

how to convert stream the audio add audio add subtitle....how to telecine a movie using a projector...screen thingy...yea boy!!!......

you know how to do that shit foo? thats tight...well i use demonoid but for some reason
its down due to isp problems sux ass man. it might take a while. i also use utorrent, i used to use azureus
but i uninstalled due to some port problems that i never got to fix. so utorrent worked good for me!

[.Fila]

yes fool i know how to do all that shit...it took me awhile...but i learned......

how to convert stream the audio add audio add subtitle....how to telecine a movie using a projector...screen thingy...yea boy!!!......

you know how to do that shit foo? thats tight...well i use demonoid but for some reason
its down due to isp problems sux ass man. it might take a while. i also use utorrent, i used to use azureus
but i uninstalled due to some port problems that i never got to fix. so utorrent worked good for me!