[NBLUG/talk] Comcast slow downs

Ed Rogers ed at rogersecommerce.com
Sun Oct 4 19:30:01 PDT 2009


You should be able to use speedtest.net to record and save your upload /
download history. I can see that when I first got comcast service, on
2/28/08, my download was 20.83 MB. That was when I moved out here from
Guerneville.
But tonight, using the same exact configuration it averaged 12.3. It's
worse. I realize that it is above what you are reporting, but I now live
in a modern urban cowtown (Sacramento) instead of a rural stumptown.
Look at summary.php for your past results.

Ed
> A new wrinkle:  This weekend whenever I downloaded an Ubuntu update or
> used Synaptic to download a package, the download went at a crawl,
> often  1Kbps.  While
> this was going on, I tried speedtest.net several times and it reported
> that my download
> speed was anywhere from 4 to 6 Mbps.  Does this indicate that Comcast
> is  throttling
> the sites being used by these Ubuntu downloads?
>
> Roger
>
> Steve Watson wrote:
>> I have been noticing a degrade in comcast service recently. It was
>> really bad a month ago where it was dropping out a couple times a day.
>>
>> Torrents for me seemed reasonable but I did notice that the
>> connections to peers wasn't very stable. I took a look at one of the
>> links provided and changed the settings for azureus(Vuze) for
>> encrypting the packets and it's a little early to tell but the
>> connections do seem to be a bit more stable but roughly about the same
>>   speed.
>>
>> Steve Watson
>>
>> On Oct 4, 2009, at 12:00, talk-request at nblug.org wrote:
>>
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>>>   1. Re: Comcast slowdown (Mark Janes)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:33:08 -0700
>>> From: Mark Janes <707mjanes at comcast.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Comcast slowdown
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>>> Hello,
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>>>   I've also noticed that 1) overall download speeds seem to be
>>> gradually slowing and 2) bittorrent ALWAYS crawled along on Comcast
>>> so I've never used it for an iso download. Regarding bittorrent, I
>>> initially thought I had something wrong at my end but after a while
>>> of watching complaints pop up I concluded that it was a Comcast
>>> problem. As
>>> for the overall download speed being slower I also thought that it
>>> might
>>> be related to my end but when I bypassed it all and plugged my
>>> computer
>>> directly into the wired ethernet connection on the cable modem and my
>>> download speeds didn't change it seems this is an issue at Comcast's
>>> end. I should point out that I have no hard numbers to prove that
>>> download speeds have slowed but the bittorrent issue still seems to
>>> be going on from what I've been reading. Does anyone have any numbers
>>> or suggestions on how they might be obtained?
>>>
>>> Mark Janes
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>>> There seems to be allot of buzz going around about this not so new
>>> throttling plan:
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>>> http://gizmodo.com/5123925/comcasts-internet-slowdown-system-fully-armed-and-operational-and-avoidable>>> http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/06/comcast-bandwidth-throttling-effective-in-all-markets>>> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/comcast-tests-a-new-bandwidth-black-list/>>> And some work arounds bittorrent over shh and others:
>>> http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9608/guide_using_linux_to_beat_comcasts_bittorrent_throttling/>>> http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-bypass-comcast-bittorrent-throttling-071021/>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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