[NBLUG/talk] Comcast slow downs

Steve Watson watson.sm at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 12:28:02 PDT 2009


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

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> 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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> Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:11:58 -0700
> From: micxz <micxz at micxz.com>
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Comcast slowdown
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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/
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